Posted by Travis Keune in 80's, Director, Sequels | 5 comments
Is there Really a Third ‘Gremlins’ in the works?
Bloody-Disgusting recently made a set visit to ‘The Hole’ to speak with director Joe Dante. During their visit, the topic of ‘Gremlins’ came up and the question of whether or not a third ‘Gremlins’ was in the works surfaced. According to Dante, it’s not currently happening but he seems pretty confident that it will at some point.
“I find it hard to believe that they won’t make a GREMLINS 3 because they’re remaking ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING. I mean, they’re gonna remake everything.” — Joe Dante
Oh, God! That’s news in and of it’s self, but not good news. ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ remake? Really? We can add this to the list of movies that need not be remade, although it does fit into the category of movies that could be remade better.
OK, back to ‘Gremlins’… I LOVE the ‘Gremlins’ movies, well, the first one anyway was awesome! ‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’ was a lot of fun, but kind of cheesy, which in turn is actually part of why it was so much fun. Then again, can you really hate any movie that features Christopher Lee?
Dante went on to expressly insist that he’ll have no involvement in the possible making of a third ‘Gremlins’ movie. Personally, the first movie will always be the only true ‘Gremlins’ and anything and everything after is just fluff. Then again, given the right players in front of and behind the camera, a third (or dare I say even a remake) movie could prove quite interesting with our advances in technology… and no, I’m not just talking about CGI.
Joe Dante apparently is, however, very much involved in the remastering the first two ‘Gremlins’ movies for their upcoming Blu-Ray release. Sweet! I knew there was a reason I’ve held out on buying them this long…
[source: Bloody-Disgusting]
Joe Dante is a hack who is a textbook example of a director on a power trip. The study entrusted him with the Gremlins franchise and he decided to ruin it by making it into one big satire. I’m glad he’s not taking part in the third one (if there is one). I heard through the grapevine that the third installment would most likely be a prequel that takes place in China before the first Gremlins film. The origins of the mogwai and Gizmo. Could take the franchise in an entirely new direction.
That is actually a good idea for a new Gremlins movie. I’ve always wanted to know about the origin of the species…pun intended.
It would be the only way to revive the franchise without fluffing the content or rehashing anything from the previous two. I wonder if they’ll keep the original tone of the first film or completely revamp the franchise and omit any of the parody elements. I would love to see them make references very obscurely to other films. I think in the right hands the third installment could revive the franchise.
I agree. That sounds like a totally awesome idea for another Gremlins movie. I do still really like the first movie, though. It didn’t feel cheesy or anything to me, but I completely get how the second one comes off that way.
Prequel, I’m in.
Dante writes and directs, I’m in.
Remake or anything else… stop shitting all over everything sacred from my childhood.