joshEH
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Looks like Kevin Bacon has just officially signed onto Syfy's new Tremors TV series pilot, reprising his role as Val from the original film:
http://www.variety.com/2017/tv/news/tremors-tv-show-syfy-kevin-bacon-1202479038/
Better be white trash as shit. This is everything I ever wanted. Let's hope Syfy gives them a decent budget.
I know that Bacon has been talking about doing this since 2015, and it's great that he's so enthusiastic about this project. I wonder if they can get Fred Ward to at least be in some episodes. And yeah, it'd be criminal not to have Michael Gross in the series to some degree.
It'd be nice if they actually made it like the sequels to Tremors (the ones Gross headlined) all happened -- where Gross just occasionally pops up as a badass Graboid-hunter (when he's not hunting Graboids in some other part of the world).
It's also fun, because soon we'll be able to describe DUNE as "Tremors plus Game of Thrones."
http://www.variety.com/2017/tv/news/tremors-tv-show-syfy-kevin-bacon-1202479038/
Syfy is eyeing a television reboot of the movie Tremors with Kevin Bacon set to reprise his original role, Variety has learned.
The cable network has picked up a pilot for the potential series, based on the 1990 film. In addition to starring, Bacon will also serve as an executive producer.
The TV series would pick up 25 years after the original film left off. The killer Graboid worms that nearly destroyed the small town of Perfection, Nevada 25 years ago are back and the town's only hope for survival is Valentine McKee (Bacon) who beat them once, but to do it again, he'll have to overcome age, alcohol, and a delusional hero complex. The movie revolved around natives of a the town who have to defend themselves against strange underground creatures that are killing them one by one.
"This is the only character I've played that I’ve ever thought about revisiting," Bacon said. "I just got to thinking, where would this guy end up after 25 years? Andrew Miller has a fantastic take on it, and we hope to create a show that will be fun and scary for fans of the movie and folks that have yet to discover it. Let's kick some Graboid ass!"
Better be white trash as shit. This is everything I ever wanted. Let's hope Syfy gives them a decent budget.
I know that Bacon has been talking about doing this since 2015, and it's great that he's so enthusiastic about this project. I wonder if they can get Fred Ward to at least be in some episodes. And yeah, it'd be criminal not to have Michael Gross in the series to some degree.
It'd be nice if they actually made it like the sequels to Tremors (the ones Gross headlined) all happened -- where Gross just occasionally pops up as a badass Graboid-hunter (when he's not hunting Graboids in some other part of the world).
It's also fun, because soon we'll be able to describe DUNE as "Tremors plus Game of Thrones."