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Kevin Bacon’s Tremors series not picked up by Syfy.

Well, that’s a shame.  I don’t know why Syfy decided not to pick up the Tremors series, after all.  Although I suppose that the correct answer might simply also be the obvious one: Syfy just sucks at making good science fiction-related decisions.  We can’t safely dismiss that possibility.  It could be what happened.

As to what happens now? I dunno, I’m not actually an expert on TV shows. They’ve got a pilot, so presumably Kevin Bacon could go to a streaming service and maybe make a deal. I think. It’d be nice if it was on Amazon or Netflix, because then I could watch it.

Tremors SyFy project gets a director.

Vincenzo Natali, who I’ve never heard of despite the fact that he did Hannibal — but not the movie Hannibal; the TV Hannibal that I literally just stopped whining about. Also, there’s this: “In the Tremors follow-up, written by Andrew Miller, the killer Graboid worms that nearly destroyed Perfection, NV, 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.”  I’m going to stop you right here: can we have this tragic and dramatic backstory up on the screen for about, oh, say ten minutes or so?  Because this should be a show about giant man-eating worms. Eyes on the prize, Mr. Natali. Eyes on the prize.

Tremors TV show moves from Amazon to SyFy.

It’s still being made, though.

After several sequels, a prequel and a different TV series, Kevin Bacon is returning to the Tremors franchise. After 27 years, a new TV series about the giant, killer sandworms, known as Graboids, is heading to TV and, after some months in limbo, it looks like the project is headed to SyFy. The network is going to make a pilot and, if all goes well, the new take on Tremors will go to series for at least one season.

I noted back in September 2016 that this show was going to be on Amazon (yay!) and would be retconning (boo!). It looks like this version is going to instead going to go see what Bacon’s character is doing now, twenty-five years on: which would mean no real need to retcon.  As one of the people writing on this noted, this is a series about people shooting giant worm monsters. There’s not much in the way of contradictory canon to work around.

So, the Tremors TV series is going to get done by Amazon.

I would be swearing right now, except that it’s being produced by Kevin Bacon (who will, naturally, also starring in it).  That’s the good news.  The contentious news is that they’re going to be calling upon the great god Retcon, apparently:

As many of you may already know, Tremors has continued to exist in the form of straight-to-DVD productions. Unfortunately, Bacon never returned for any of them. Instead, Fred Ward and Michael Gross would make several appearances. Bacon’s character in the movie was touched upon in a quick life update, but nothing would evolve from it. In this new series, Bacon plans on putting the stories of the DVDs aside.

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