Upcoming Tremors Continuation to be an Amazon Streaming Series
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Where are things at with the Tremors TV series?
BACON: We’re at Amazon. We’re still waiting for a draft, but I’m 100% on board with that.
Since you’re going to be playing the same character and it’s set in the same town, is it a continuation of the story that was told in the movies?
BACON: It’s great. It’s a super cool idea. They went and made a bunch of sequels to the movie. I want to put those aside because, first of all, I wasn’t in them. But what I was really interested in was taking this guy and, 25 years later, seeing what happened to him, to his dreams, and to his life. Andrew Miller, who’s writing the script, came up with this really, really interesting take on it, and I think it could be a lot of fun.
You’ve talked about how you initially saw Tremors as a low point in your career, but then it took on a life of its own and became a classic. Could you ever have imagined that you’d be thinking and talking about it again, so many years later?
BACON: You never know. It did become a real classic. It was also at a time when the VHS was exploding. Movies took on a life of their own. The last thing you wanted, in that point in our industry, was to have a movie go straight to VHS. Tremors did not perform at the box office, but it did great on VHS. When I came up with the idea and reached out to Blumhouse about looking at it again, I looked at the movie, and I don’t look at my movies, at all. I went back and put it up on my screen at home and went, “Wow, this is a really good movie!” I just didn’t get it when I was there and in it. I wrote it off ‘cause it wasn’t a hit, and I really needed one. But, I think it’s a really good movie. It’s unusual and it’s funny. Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it’s also something that’s incredibly hard to market. I think that was part of the problem. Funny scary is tough, unless you’re Snakes on a Plane.
"They went and made a bunch of sequels to the movie. I want to put those aside because, first of all, I wasn’t in them." So, no shriekers & ass-blasters then?
Although I've always enjoyed the first sequel Aftershocks a lot. And his story in the franchise book about his son enjoying Tremors II despite his absence is great.
Now if they can just get other familiar faces involved again, especially Fred Ward in some capacity, this could really be something. share