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‘Tremors’ TV Reboot In The Works With Kevin Bacon!
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Kevin Bacon to star in Tremors TV show

Twenty-five years ago, long after the Cold War gave us an entire generation of giant monster movies; a crew met out in the middle of the desert (or the town of Perfection, Nevada) to make Tremors. On a budget of about $11 million, director Ron Underwood helped created one of the coolest and most original monster movies in years. A young, fresh out of the awesome 80’s Kevin Bacon played Valentine “Val” McKee, and Fred Ward was his slightly older, slightly wiser partner Earl. Together, they find themselves in the middle of a mess, when giant underground creatures dubbed”Grabboids” with tentacled tongues that pull their victims in swarm the town. With the help of a rag tag crew, including a young pretty seismologist Rhonda (Finn Carter), and married gun nuts Burt and Heather (Michael Gross & Reba McEntire), they defend the town from these creatures, while spouting hilarious one-liners from a script from the duo of S.S. Wilson & Brent Maddox. The movie holds a special place in my heart as well as the hearts of young 80s kids yearning for some fun scares. The special effects hold up and the Grabboids were awesome practical monsters, some of the last before Spielberg changed the game with Jurassic Park in 1993, and CG became the way of the future.

Why are we discussing a quarter century year old classic? Because Tremors, complete with Val himself, is returning to the screen… the small screen.

More on this below.

Bacon has signed on to star and as executive producer of a new Tremors series, which is being produced by Universal Cable Productions and Blumhouse Productions. While no network is attached as of now, EW reports they are shopping, as multiple venues being interested. Bacon is no nube to episodic TV, having just finished a three season run of serial killer thriller The Following on FOX.

There have been a bunch of Tremors sequels and a 13-episode series in 2003, but none have involved Bacon. Bacon has mentioned before how he’s like to revisit the character:

“I’d love to do something else with Tremors and revisit the character 25 years later,” he said. “Part of what’s great about that movie is there are next to no digital effects. The monsters are done with puppetry, and it’s still off, funny and scary “” it’s a cool accomplishment.”

I can’t wait to see Valentine McKee on the small screen once again. Can we get Michael Gross and Reba McEntire on board too?

[Source: EW]

3 Comments »

  1. I am all for this as long as Michael Gross signs on as well. It’s pointless without him.

    Comment by MysteryD8 — November 25, 2015 @ 9:38 am

  2. Completely agreed. He’s the one who’s carried the franchise the whole way through. It would be a shame to get rid of earth’s number one graboid hunter.

    Comment by Davy Jones — November 25, 2015 @ 4:20 pm

  3. I wonder if it would get Jamie Kennedy regular work after he Shia Leboufed up the fifth movie?

    Comment by MysteryD8 — November 25, 2015 @ 4:26 pm

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