WB Moving Forward With GREMLINS Remake; Seth Grahame-Smith To Produce

WB Moving Forward With GREMLINS Remake; Seth Grahame-Smith To Produce

"Bright light!" According to Bloody Disgusting, Warner Bros. are indeed planning to bring Gizmo and his slightly less cute pals back to the big screen, and while a director is still being sought, Seth Grahame-Smith has apparently been brought on as a producer.

By MarkCassidy - May 13, 2013 04:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: Bloody Disgusting

A while ago we reported that Warner Bros. Pictures was negotiating with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to reboot their 1984 horror comedy, Gremlins. Apparently there have been numerous attempts to get the wheels in motion on this over the years but things always fell through, however, this time it seems to be on track with Dark Shadows/Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter writer Seth Grahame-Smith being tapped to produce alongside David Katzenberg.



Gremlins was one of my favorite movies as a child and I still love the Hell out of it despite it dating a little around the edges. A less successful (and quite bizarre) sequel followed, and there was always talk of a third movie but nothing ever materialized. There's no doubt that Gizmo is one of the most adorable creatures to ever grace the screen, so I'm not altogether against another movie as long as it stays true to the original. In fact I hope this "reboot" is that in name only and we get some sort of continuation of the story, or at the very least not a complete rehash of the first one. What do you guys think? One reboot too far?


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Hellsing
Hellsing - 5/13/2013, 4:17 AM
Seth Grahame Smith the writer of much lauded films Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. Great..just great!
blvdnoise
blvdnoise - 5/13/2013, 4:19 AM
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo..
Hellsing
Hellsing - 5/13/2013, 4:25 AM
I don't mind another Gremlin(that's good) movie but Grahame-Smiths involvement isn't exactly good news.
PLUSH
PLUSH - 5/13/2013, 4:41 AM
NAY!
HipsterAngelusNY
HipsterAngelusNY - 5/13/2013, 5:23 AM
i wouldnt mind a sequel, no need for a reebot, we need gizmo back no cgi unless its WETA doing it
TheKingsHead
TheKingsHead - 5/13/2013, 5:43 AM
GODDAMN IT!!!!!!!!
TheGreenNinja
TheGreenNinja - 5/13/2013, 5:48 AM
Make it! Loved gremlins.
Oh wait noooo, or frick this, or shit art. (Yes i know its not a comic)
Hollywood makes so much crap. This could be good.
Rowsdower
Rowsdower - 5/13/2013, 6:02 AM
Why can't they just do GREMLINS 3 with stupid cgi.

Everyone knows what Gremlins is anyway.
DRMidNite
DRMidNite - 5/13/2013, 6:05 AM
NOT him? Good God!!!!
Brainiac13
Brainiac13 - 5/13/2013, 6:15 AM
WHY!!!!! just do different stories!!!
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/13/2013, 6:32 AM
NO CGI PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheRationalNerd
TheRationalNerd - 5/13/2013, 6:34 AM
(Totally off topic) but the Fright Night remake was NO WHERE as good as the 80's one! I was very disappointed...smh
DoodPool
DoodPool - 5/13/2013, 6:39 AM
....... Out of all the stories you could tell with this premise they just want to tell the first one again?
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/13/2013, 6:40 AM
big fan of the first two movies,bring on the reboot.
PosingKyle
PosingKyle - 5/13/2013, 6:40 AM
Gremlins remake? Just re-release them in 3D or whatever...geez these guys in Hollywood can't leave the classics alone.
MrReese
MrReese - 5/13/2013, 6:51 AM
Mr.Wayne better have a role in this XD

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darkjoker1
darkjoker1 - 5/13/2013, 6:55 AM
no -_- hes a horrbly screenwriter but a good author but hell no seth isgoing to ruin it....
fortycals
fortycals - 5/13/2013, 7:22 AM
f a reboot. Do a prequel set in WW2.
jerryblake
jerryblake - 5/13/2013, 7:47 AM
don't reboot it. Just make "Gremlins 3". Plain and simple :)
jlabatman
jlabatman - 5/13/2013, 7:53 AM
Leave this one alone! It is still a classic and doesn't need a reboot, just because you do not have any original ideas!
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 5/13/2013, 8:05 AM
Bring on Sequel! [frick] off Reboot!

The first two havent aged a bit and they still work soif anything bring on Sequel.
KaineBParker
KaineBParker - 5/13/2013, 8:15 AM
There are a couple of great CGI studios out there, whichever one made Tron Legacy and Oblivion are amazing
but I do agree with Weta and maybe having Rupert Wyatt direct. RW did a fantastic job with Rise of the Apes and he would do a fine job with Gremlins. Heck maybe Andy Serkis could be used for several of the mocap gremlins.
HelaGood
HelaGood - 5/13/2013, 8:17 AM
awesome work, WB! that's right...keep playing it safe with remakes. don't take any chances by making a Wonder Woman movie or anything else that would take balls to do.
KaineBParker
KaineBParker - 5/13/2013, 8:28 AM
Yeah that's a movie with balls, Wonder Woman couldn't even survive for one episode as a tv show. That is why a Wonder Woman film won't happen. The only way WW gets a standalone film, is if they make a Justice League film and she becomes a fan favorite like Captain America in the Avengers. Initially Marvel had no plans to make a sequel to CA the first avenger, but he was so good in the Avengers that he earned a CA2
ThatOneDude
ThatOneDude - 5/13/2013, 9:13 AM
No.
TheBeard
TheBeard - 5/13/2013, 9:27 AM
leave gizmo alone damnit
m0th3r
m0th3r - 5/13/2013, 9:47 AM
more of my childhood assraped for an easy buck....how about an original idea
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 5/13/2013, 10:27 AM
Hollywood is dead. Only the CBM have been keeping me entertained. Even my beloved Pixar hasn't done anything since TS3.
Ocelot
Ocelot - 5/13/2013, 10:30 AM
reboot yawn, would rather them just make a sequel with the characters from the original or just dont bother to make the film at all, is there originality left in hollywood, it's either remakes, reboots or adaptations of something nowdays.
Sanderman
Sanderman - 5/13/2013, 10:47 AM
I really am starting to think that Hollywood is running out of ideas. People please quit paying these ridiculous prices for rebooted movies that we've already seen and hopefully they'll stop making them
NerfHerder
NerfHerder - 5/13/2013, 10:56 AM
Couldn't have said it better myself, m0th3r... Damn crying shame.
PsychoManiacJacky
PsychoManiacJacky - 5/13/2013, 11:38 AM
There is originality left in Hollywood, but it's deep down in a hole somewhere. Face it people, every single idea and every single genre of films has been done to death already. Just like how music is slowly decaying into nothing what are films left with it but just rehashing the same old ideas and tired plots we have seen many times. Look in every major release film today and just try to say it isn't true at all. There is nothing left...nothing left.
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