Kevin Bacon booked for ‘Tremors’ reboot
STAR of the 1990 cult hit monster movie “Tremors,” Kevin Bacon is on board for a reboot commissioned by genre specialist Syfy.
Since appearing in “Tremors,” a movie about enormous worms terrorising a remote town, Bacon has won high-profi le recognition from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes, Saturn and Satellite awards for his roles in “The River Wild,” “Apollo 13,” “Mystic River,” “The Woodsman” and TV series “Taking Chance” and “The Following.”
Now he’s returning to the small mining town of Perfection, Nevada for a second run at the subterranean Graboids in a TV series that’s set 25 years after the original movie.
By this time, lead character Valentine McKee is ageing, alcoholic, and overly selfimportant, Variety reports.
“This is the only character I’ve played that I’ve ever thought about revisiting,” said Bacon. “I just got to thinking, ‘Where would this guy end up after 25 years?’”
“( Writer) Andrew Miller has a fantastic take on it and we hope to create a show that will be fun and scary for fans of the movie and folks that have yet to discover it. Let’s kick some Graboid a**!”
Miller previously wrote and developed TV series “The Secret Circle,” a teen drama with supernatural and horror elements, based on the novels by L. J. Smith.
Syfy has ordered a pilot with a view to greenlighting the series should a fi rst episode prove worthwhile.
Blumhouse Television, of “The Normal Heart,” “Ascension,” and upcoming Gillian Flynn adaptation “Sharp Objects,” is co-producing with Universal Cable Productions; UCP has been involved in numerous Syfy productions including “Defi ance,” “Ascension,” “12 Monkeys” and “Channel Zero.”
Following its original release, “Tremors” spawned four home video sequels and a oneseason 2003 Syfy TV series, none of which secured Bacon’s involvement. — Relaxnews