We recently celebrated the 20th(!) anniversary of director Rodman Flender’s wacky horror-comedy Idle Hands as part of our ongoing We Love ’90s Horror column, with Drew Dietsch revisiting the 1999 film and calling it “lovably dimwitted and surprisingly gory.” Drew continued, “[it’s] a movie that really does capture the childish fun of horror and Halloween.”
I’m in complete agreement with Drew on all that, and sure would love to see a sequel someday. As it turns out, so too would the film’s star, Devon Sawa. In a new chat with ComicBook.com, Sawa said that he’d agree to reprise the role of Anton Tobias – whose right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent in the late 90s film – “in a heartbeat.”
“If there was one film that I want to do a sequel to that would be the one,” Sawa told the site.
“That set was, between Elden [Henson], and Seth Green, and Vivica Fox, [Jessica] Alba, Jack Noseworthy, and all those people, it was like summer camp and it was so much fun.”
Sawa continued, “I would love that to happen but unfortunately the first one didn’t… I think it broke even or something like that, but you never know. You never know.”
As we’ve learned, ANYTHING is possible these days. Let’s make it happen!
