While Wicked has proven once again that musical movies can deliver some huge results at the box office, it looks like a long-delayed all-singing, all-dancing movie could have finally been shelved after going through several combinations of writers, directors, and stars, including former Marvel's Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson. A remake of Little Shop of Horrors – which would actually be a remake of a movie of a musical remake of a Roger Corman movie – has been on the cards for some time, but according to filmmaker Joe Dante, the project has been dug out at the roots.

Before the Covid pandemic, talk of a Little Shop of Horrors remake began to circulate, with Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, and Chris Evans being eyed as taking on the role of Seymour Krelborn, the weedy hero of the story who takes on a mighty alien plant called Audrey II to prevent it taking over the world.