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Yes. Please?! Devon Sawa Says He’d Love to Make a Sequel to ‘Idle Hands’
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!
The Broadway stage production of Paranormal Activity can’t wait to scare audiences and is acting accordingly; Deadline reports that the opening date has been bumped up several weeks.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage is coming to Broadway for a limited 20-week engagement. The first preview performance scheduled for Friday, August 14, at the August Wilson Theatre, remains in place. Now the play will officially open on Tuesday, August 25, moving up from its initial September 15 launch date.
The official synopsis: “James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.”
Directed by Felix Barrett and written by playwright Levi Holloway, the stage show weaves “an original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30.
Both the Broadway and Boston casts will feature Cher Álvarez, Travis A. Knight, Shannon Cochran, and Andrea Syglowski. Understudies will be Caron Buinis, Caroline Hendricks, and Michael Holding.
Álvarez will play Lou, and Knight plays James.
Paranormal Activity: A New Story Live on Stage premiered at the Leeds Playhouse in the UK before transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, where it received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination this year for Best Entertainment or Comedy Play.
Original Paranormal Activity stars Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat attended the Paranormal Activity play last year, and they both shared their thoughts over on Instagram.
Katie Featherston raved, “What a truly fun night seeing the new Paranormal Activity at the Ahmanson Theatre! We had a blast- so scary and so fun. The design and production was amazing and the cast did a fantastic job. Congrats to all involved!”
There’s also a brand new movie on the way.
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