Another Gremlins Remake Story to Chew On

Source: ComingSoon

May 13, 2013

Is Warner Bros. getting serious about a Gremlins remake? It sure looks like it. Bloody-Disgusting reports that Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) and David Katzenberg have been strapped with producing duties, however, no writer or director are attached at this time.

The two have a first-look contract with the studio and are also at work on a Beetlejuice sequel. Their two-year deal was signed back in fall of 2011.

Earlier this year, talks of a Gremlins remake surfaced when Frank Marshall revealed that a redo could not happen without Steven Spielberg's "okay."

If this latest news is true, it means the remake is still in the "early stages" and a lot still needs to happen for it to come to fruition.

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I think rebooting Gremlins is a bad idea. I still think after all this time the original still holds up.

Agree. If anything they should make another sequel. Gremlins 2 is still one of the best movie sequels of all time. I'm not kidding.

I'm not feeling all of these remakes.

Does Hollywood have any original ideas left, or is it all "let's reboot this old move, add CGI and call it a day"? If that's the case, man, it's getting real boring.

Instead of a reboot, do a sequel. Are the actor from the original Gremlins that old?

You forgot the obligatory 3D.

Reboot is the most overused word currently used about movies and TV shows. The last Gremlins project was in 1990. That's well over 20 years ago. A "reboot" that happens that long between projects is nothing but a straight-up Remake. Not everything new is a reboot. That is a very specific term for whenever a franchise starts over fresh after a recent continuity crashes either due to box office disaster or creative differences. It doesn't apply to properties that have been dormant for decades.