Kevin Bacon Nonetheless Desires a Tremors Theatrical Sequel to Occur: ‘Ready for the Name’
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Kevin Bacon is, as soon as once more, ready to participate in a brand new Tremors sequel.
His love for the 1990 movie is fairly well-documented. Not solely is it the one film of his that he is watched because it premiered, however he additionally admitted to nonetheless desirous to star in a sequel in a 2021 Esquire profile.
And on Friday, he rehashed his admiration for Tremors as soon as once more when a fan requested him about making a follow-up to the cult basic.
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After a Twitter consumer wrote that the newest Shazam! Fury of the Gods trailer “makes me REALLY wish to see a brand new Tremors film that is not direct to DVD,” Bacon weighed in for followers.
“I am simply ready for the decision…🪱,” he wrote with an appropriately positioned worm emoji.
The remark comes almost 33 years after the Ron Underwood-directed film first gained over followers with a stacked solid, that includes Bacon, the late Fred Ward and Reba McEntire, amongst others. It befell within the city of Perfection, Nevada, the place residents tried to defend themselves in opposition to underground worm-like creatures.
The film spawned a number of direct-to-video sequels minute a lot of the foremost solid, together with Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Again to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Tremors 5: Bloodlines, Tremors: A Chilly Day in Hell, and 2020’s Tremors: Shrieker Island.
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Nonetheless, he is been vocal about the way forward for the franchise and advised Esquire in 2021 that Common approached him about making extra of the movies years in the past, though they might’ve been direct-to-video. Whereas he handed on the time, he hoped to rekindle his relationship with the franchise round 2015.
“We have been across the 25-year anniversary. I went to Blumhouse, and so they have been completely into the thought,” Bacon advised Esquire. “Common did not wish to remake it as a function and likewise possibly as a result of it did not work as a function the primary time. So we put it apart. Then they got here again to me and stated, ‘What would you consider doing it as a sequence?'”
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The present finally landed at SyFy, however died on the vine earlier than making it to air. Regardless of the setbacks surrounding the franchise, Bacon remains to be on board with discovering methods to struggle off some large worms.
“I might nonetheless like to do it, imagine me,” Bacon stated in 2021. “Possibly it must be the thirtieth anniversary or the thirty fifth. We’ll maintain going.”