It is incredibly hard to believe that it has been 25 years since the release of Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty. Yikes. The retooling of Invasion of the Body Snatchers was really fun and took the entire ordeal back to high school. For good measure, the young cast was made up of folks who were up-and-comers. Well, earlier this week Daniel Richtman, an established news breaker announced that Robert Rodriguez is onboard as an upcoming producer on a reboot of The Faculty.
Rodriguez on as a producer is really cool and all… but we can’t help but wish he would come back as a director on this one. The Faculty came out right in the popularity of his other indie edged films including Desperado and Four Rooms. Rodriguez is a much different place now and much more into the world of special effects.
The synopsis for The Faculty broke down like this:
To the students at Harrington High, the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a little odd, but lately they’ve been behaving positively alien. Controlled by otherworldly parasites, the faculty try to infect students one by one. Cheerleader Delilah (Jordana Brewster), football player Stan (Shawn Hatosy), drug dealer Zeke (Josh Hartnett) and new girl Marybeth (Laura Harris) team up with some of their other classmates to fight back against the invaders.
There is a lot that the sequel could build off of. Heck, it would be really cool to mix up this world and tell it from the perspective of the aliens. I mean can you imagine an alien race looking for a place to live being blocked by Gen-Y kids and their eye on everything, 24/7 gossip cycle? Sounds chilling to us.
Right now there are no other details. We will have to wait and see if Rodriguez and his camp admit if there is any truth to this or not. But, in the meantime it sure as heck is exciting to think a reboot of The Faculty could indeed be on the horizon.
What do you think about Rodriguez potentially be on as a producer on The Faculty reboot.