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‘Gremlins 3’ Script Reportedly Written and Waiting on Spielberg’s Approval
Original Gremlins writer Chris Columbus has penned a brand new screenplay for a brand new Gremlins movie, but what’s the status on that Warner Bros. project here in the Summer of 2025? According to franchise star Zach Galligan, the ball is now in Steven Spielberg’s court.
“After 35 years, they’ve come up with a script,” Galligan told the crowd at Comic-Con Manchester. “Warner Bros. is incredibly interested in doing it. Apparently it’s waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it. But you can thank the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”
This lines up with recent comments from the top brass over at Warner Bros., with CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy stating in an interview earlier this year that they’re excited to be working with Amblin and Chris Columbus on a new installment in the Gremlins film franchise.
Talk of a third Gremlins movie has come and gone several times over the years, and you can read all about that lengthy history over on the franchise’s official Wikipedia page. But we had first heard about a new script written by Chris Columbus back in 2017, with that iteration of the script described as being both “twisted” and “dark.”
“I’m really proud of the script,” Columbus said in 2017. “It is as twisted and dark as anything, so we’ll see. It’s always a budgetary conversation when we’re going to shoot it. I wanted to go back to the really twisted sensibility of the first movie. I found that was a very easy place for me to fall back into and start writing again so hopefully we’ll see that movie soon.”
Gremlins more recently returned to the screen with a two-season animated prequel series on HBO Max, but Galligan’s comments suggest the return of Gremlins as a film franchise has less to do with any success on that front and more to do with Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice successfully reviving a similarly beloved 1980s franchise to the tune of $452 million.
Stay tuned for more on Gremlins 3 as we learn it.
Described as “Ted meets ET,” David Mikalson’s raunchy comedy Goblin is being brought to life over at A24, and Will Forte (“The Four Seasons”) is now in talks to star.
Deadline first reported the news this afternoon.
Kenneth Branagh has been cast to voice the titular Goblin in the upcoming A24 movie, with the character said to be “green-colored” as well as “anatomically correct.”
Skyler Gisondo (Superman) is reportedly playing the Goblin’s human best friend.
The mysterious project sounds a bit like films including A Gnome Named Gnorm and more recently, Frankie Freako, though it’s important to note that it’s not billed as a horror movie.
Deadline details, “After [Mikalson] hatched the idea to make an outrageous buddy comedy about a goblin, using a practical puppet and operating outside the Hollywood system, his script quickly got him a rep team. While others might have eyed the raunchy comedy as a writing sample or planned to wait to see the micro-budget version Mikalson has been directing in Kentucky, A24 jumped all over it. The hot indie essentially has agreed to finance a full feature.”
“There was a lot of interest, but A24 came with what Mikalson really wanted, after spending all his money crafting the puppet title character: they acquired the movie and agreed to let him make it with a significantly increased budget than what he had left after creating the anatomically correct title character,” Deadline’s report goes on to explain.
What does the titular Goblin actually look like? Well, a cake that Mikalson had whipped up for his reps might give us our first look at what to expect. Deadline explains the photo you’ll see down below, “Take a look at the cake he commissioned with Marc Gravelle at Cake Art in West Hollywood, to present to his reps as thanks for making his dream come true.”
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