I go ‘Yeah! Everybody looks the same!’ and you know, it’s just at that age things can happen quick once you get sick.”Īccording to Zombie, Haig is back in the hospital currently where he’s being treated while adding ‘it’s been a rough year for him’. Whatever he is, six-foot-four, big and burly. It was very unfortunate because a year before that when we all met and were discussing the script, or maybe it wasn’t even a year… eight months, whatever… he seemed like the same old Sid. He’s very important to me, the movie, it was very important to Sid.’ And they were like, okay, but I had to do something that was completely not strenuous for him,” Zombie said. I gotta get Captain Spaulding in this movie. ‘Please, you gotta let me bring Sid in, even if it’s just for one morning. “So what I did was I rewrote the whole script for the tenth time, this time creating the character of Foxy, the half-brother, and convinced Lionsgate. Unfortunately, Zombie knew there was no way Haig was going to pass the physicals needed that would allow him to take the part in ‘3 From Hell’ but he was determined for Captain Spaulding to at least make an appearance in the movie even if he couldn’t be side by side with Otis and Baby. There’s all this boring stuff that has to be done.” He’d have to pass his physical, he’s have to pass the insurance company’s thing so that Lionsgate can hire him. “And then right before we started shooting, because Sid’s 80 years old he would have to be examined by a doctor. Like, what am I doing here, you know? This is the movie I planned, it was these guys,” Zombie said. In fact that day he seemed maybe a little worse, and I was like, ‘Oh boy.’ “So then I would keep rewriting, less and less and less, and then it just started getting crazy. I was like, ‘Three more weeks! Maybe he’ll get better!’ and another week would go by and me and Sheri and Bill would go to the hospital to visit him, and he seemed the same. I started rewriting the movie thinking, well, maybe he can do half of it. “So I thought okay, he can’t do the whole movie. He does not look well.’ So we talked and I was there while he was doing physical therapy with his therapist, and I was talking to the doctors. He’s laying in his hospital bed and I’m like, ‘Oh boy. Big, burly Sid was now like a skeleton,” Zombie explained. Zombie ultimately decided to pay Haig a visit, which is when he discovered that there was no way his old friend would be able to perform in the scenes required for ‘3 From Hell’. Even though he told me the details of it, which I’m not going to reveal because it’s private.” So I thought okay, I didn’t know how bad his situation was. He’d been in the hospital and now he was in a physical therapy place, getting physical therapy. I didn’t think anything was wrong, but apparently he had been in the hospital the whole time. ’ “I couldn’t figure out why he would do that. “Because every time I go, ‘Oh, did Sid come in for his wardrobe fitting?’ they’re like, ‘No, he postponed it again.’ ‘Did he come in for this?’ ‘No, he had to. That’s what we were getting ready to make.” “But unfortunately, about three weeks before we started shooting I got a call from Sid and he said, ‘Well, I’ve been in the hospital for a while.’ And then it started to make sense,” Zombie said. It was the three of them through the entire movie. That was the ‘3 From Hell.’ That was the script I wrote. “‘3 From Hell’ was Captain Spaulding, Otis and Baby. “The reason he’s not in the movie is not a good one,” Zombie told Bloody-Disgusting. Unfortunately, Zombie’s plans changed dramatically after finding out that Sid Haig - who portrayed the maniacal clown Captain Spaulding in both ‘House of 1,000 Corpses’ and ‘The Devil’s Rejects’ - wasn’t going to be healthy enough to perform in ‘3 From Hell’. Once he had an idea in mind to return to the Firefly family made infamous through two of his past films, he began hammering out a script that would explain how Otis Driftwood, Baby and Captain Spaulding survived an onslaught of bullets from police at the end of ‘The Devil’s Rejects’ before then carrying out his intended sequel. The musician/writer/director never actually intended to create a sequel to 2005’s ‘The Devil’s Rejects’, which itself was a sequel of his first film ‘House of 1,000 Corpses’. Rob Zombie had a much different vision for ‘3 From Hell’ than the movie that landed in theaters this week. Rob Zombie’s new film ‘3 From Hell’ landed in theaters this week and now he explains why Sid Haig’s appearance in the film was so short…
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