Almost 10 years after the latest installment in the franchise, Deadline reports today that Lionsgate is developing a brand new Leprechaun movie. And they’ve found their writers.
Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan (Saw IV-3D, The Collector) will write the new Leprechaun movie.
Deadline details, “Oren Koules and Miles Koules are set to produce the new entry, whose plot is being kept under wraps, through their Koulest Productions banner.”
Oren Koules tells the outlet, “After producing all the Saw films, and twenty-three wonderful years at Lionsgate, I’m thrilled to be working again with the Lionsgate team, Patrick and Marcus, and my son, Miles, on a terrifying new way into the rich world of Leprechaun.”
The Leprechaun franchise kicked off with Mark Jones’s original horror-comedy in 1993, which was followed by five Warwick Davis-starring sequels, a reboot, and later Leprechaun Returns in 2018. Even though Leprechaun Returns was a sequel to the original movie, Linden Porco took over the role of the title character, played by Dylan Postl for Leprechaun Origins.
Felipe Vargas had previously been attached to direct a new Leprechaun movie for Lionsgate a few years back, but we learned last year that the project would not be moving forward.
Stay tuned for more on the Leprechaun’s upcoming return to the screen.
