If you’re hungry for the planned Little Shop of Horrors reboot, prepare to order something off-menu. According to Joe Dante, one of the creative forces behind the project, it’s getting shelved indefinitely. News about a Little Shop of Horrors reboot sprouted in March 2024, but updates about a new version of the 1980s musical have been scarce. The tentatively titled Little Shop of Halloween Horrors reboot would have been a contemporary take on the fan-favorite alien invasion story about a sentient plant that feeds on human flesh until it can grow into a Kaiju-sized monster to dole out vegetative violence.

Joe Dante commented with The Direct on the project’s status, or lack thereof, saying, “The word is ‘stasis,’ not status. At the moment, like so many things in town, nothing’s happening, and we always hope that will change, but it’s not the greatest time right now to [get] projects off the ground.