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Kevin Bacon Still Hungry to Return to the ‘Tremors’ Franchise
While he admits that he once thought it was going to end his career, these days Kevin Bacon looks back on the 1990 creature feature Tremors with nothing but fondness. In fact, Bacon recently reprised the role of Valentine McKee for the pilot episode of a Tremors television series that never got off the ground. And he’s not giving up hope just yet.
Chatting with Esquire for a new interview piece that ran this week, Bacon reflects on the legacy of Tremors, while also noting that he’s still hungry to return to the franchise proper.
“It was one film of mine that I wanted to revisit that character. I don’t look back at all. In fact, Tremors is the only movie of mine that I have rewatched since it’s come out,” Bacon explains.
He continues, “We were around the 25 year anniversary. I went to Blumhouse, and they were totally into the idea. Universal didn’t want to remake it as a feature and also maybe because it didn’t work as a feature the first time. So we put it aside. Then they came back to me and said, ‘What would you think about doing it as a series?’” Alas, that SYFY project never came to be.
“I would still love to do it, believe me. Maybe it needs to be the 30th anniversary or the 35th. We’ll keep going,” Bacon tells Esquire, still very much keeping that hope alive.
With Michael Gross at the helm, the original Tremors franchise just released its seventh installment last year. To date, Kevin Bacon has only appeared in the original movie.
Never say never…
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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