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The TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND trailer.

Because why not, by God? Why not? This is why we built our modern society. Straight up, no fooling: B-movies like TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND will be one of the legacies of this civilization.

I’d say more, except that doing so might imply that movies like TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND need defending. Which is self-evidently absurd.

The trailer for the canceled Tremors series.

What could have been.

TREMORS series — trailer from Valentine McKee on Vimeo.

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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.

The “Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell” trailer.

This one’s going direct to DVD in May. Which is not an indictment of Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell: the critical reviews of the Tremors series have been surprisingly good, considering how only one of the movies ever made it to the big screen. This one looks like they had a decent enough CGI budget, too.  And, really, the important thing here is to have fun, right?  Have fun, give the fans movies about giant underground monsters, and shoot every damn gun in the world.  That is what is good in life.

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.

STOP THE PRESSES! EYEBALLS! DIRECT YOUR EYEBALLS THIS WAY! TREMORS 6 NEWS!

Filming has begun:

Intrepid creature hunter Burt Gummer and his son Travis find themselves in a remote hotbed of giant man-eating worms in the newest action-packed entry in the wildly popular Tremors franchise. Currently in production in Cape Town, South Africa, this outrageous horror comedy finds the pair at a remote research station where they come under attack by what Burt fears could be weaponized Graboids. Tremors 6 will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD in 2018 from Universal 1440 Entertainment, a production entity of Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

This, by the way, is one of the reasons why I want to get the DVD hookup to work in the exercise room: the Tremors series calls to me on DVD, and watching while exercising is the perfect combo. Hmm. And maybe Eight-Legged Freaks, which is a movie that is infinitely better than it has any right to be…

*Also* in the Mail: The Tremors Attack Pack.

I picked up the Tremors Attack Pack, which includes the first four Tremors movies (at least three of which I actually want to see!) because I was in Best Buy and I said Lo! I wish to purchase that movie, or even a collection of those movies!  Alas, Best Buy couldn’t be arsed to keep a copy on stock.  Fortunately, Amazon could – and they make it really easy to order from your phone.

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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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