By Original “Gremlins” star Zach Galligan played Billy Peltzer in Joe Dante’s iconic 1984 horror comedy and the other day offered an update on a possible third outing.
Warner Bros. Pictures released the sequel “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” in 1990 but since then have had little success with continuing the franchise bar the recent animated prequel series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai”.
That show was ordered with two seasons to be produced and follows the story of how ten-year-old Sam Wing met Gizmo, a young Mogwai.
The show launched May 2023 on Max to superb reviews, though no word as yet when the second season will air. Speaking with Screen Rant, Galligan says Warners likely sees the show as a test bed for audience interest in a third film:
“I can’t really figure out why Warner Bros. would do two seasons – not one, but two seasons – of the animated series, and spend a lot of money on it, unless there was some kind of endgame. And usually the endgame for a huge studio like Warner Bros. Discovery is a live-action film.
A live-action film is always where you’re going to make the most money. Super Mario Bros. just proved that . . . the endgame probably will be, I’m hoping, a third film. I don’t think it’ll be a reboot, though, because Chris Columbus has nixed that idea. He owns part of the rights.”
Back in 2017, Columbus revealed a script for a third film had been finished but sadly no further progress was made. The now 59-year-old Galligan remains one of the franchise’s biggest cheerleaders, appearing in commercials and podcasts in recent years involving the critters.
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