Oh come on! Who among us didn’t love Gremlins when we were kids?!?! That movie ruled on so many levels. Yeah… I liked Gremlins 2 for some reason. How cute was Gizmo???? How awesome was Stripe??? (BY THE WAY, THE MAN WHO VOICED STRIPE, FRANK WELKER, IS THE VOICE MEGATRON IN THE TRANSFORMERS. Just a little trivia for ya).
But enough… is enough. However, not everyone thinks so. Apparently Warner Bros. is thinking of doing a Gremlins 3, and the former director of Gremlins, Joe Dante, hates the idea. The good folks over at Moviehole give us the following:
According to Dante, he set out to make 1990’s “Gremlins 2” in a way to “make sure there wouldn’t be” another film, but if Warner are keen “they’re welcome to it. I think what’s holding it up is that they can’t conceive of what to do because the first movies were defined by the technology, it was what the puppets could do and do well and not do and that’s what the movies became. Now you could do anything with CGI so the field is so open that nobody could focus on what exactly it should be. I can’t say I’m looking forward to seeing it.”
I agree with Dante. The main source of the charm of Gremlins was these little puppets… how damn cute they were… and how damn scary they were. I thin a puppet version of Gremlins today wouldn’t fly… and a CG incarnation would lose that charm. I could obviously be wrong, but those are my thougts.
So as much as I loved Gremlins… it’s just best for all involved to leave this one alone. But they won’t. Expect a Gremlins 3 film before 2009. Sigh.
