Though a lot of fans of the Gremlins films that originally seared the critters into our memories might want to add “don’t ever try to remake the original” to the famous list of rules for care of Mogwai, Warner Bros, Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus are nevertheless still pushing ahead with a reboot. Carl Ellsworth is the latest writer to take a crack at the script.
Exactly what the studio wants from the new film is not yet clear, since it’s still deep in development. But chances are there will be a new take on the first film’s story – famously written by Columbus with Joe Dante marshalling the madness – set in a sleepy, quaint American everytown at Christmas that is thrown into chaos by the bolshie beasts.
Spielberg (who produced the original) and Columbus are strictly on board as producers for now, and seem to have hired Ellsworth for his experience updating stories including The Last House On The Left and (whisper it) Red Dawn. His most recent effort was the Goosebumps film, which is now not set to hit our shores until February next year.
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