Tucker & Dale Director Blames David Zaslav for Killing TV Spinoff

The 15-year anniversary of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil was earlier in January, and should you’ve been holding out hope for a observe up, director/co-writer Eli Craig revealed it virtually occurred.

Throughout an interview with Slashfilm about his new horror flick Clown in a Cornfield, Craig famous the would-be sequel “has died extra deaths than the school children [in the first movie]. It’s at all times been a wrestle, after which once we do set it up and get all of the items collectively, it will get killed by some means.” One such model was a TV continuation on TNT/TBS (not in contrast to what occurred with Chucky), however that bumped into its personal roadblock: specifically, present Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav.

“Zaslav, the slayer of all cinema, got here in and put the ultimate nail within the coffin for Tucker & Dale as we had been about to go to sequence, and simply canceled all manufacturing, ” stated Craig. That, in and of itself doesn’t sound too shocking: presumably, this could’ve taken place someday in 2022, shortly after WB and Discovery merged and the corporate went about shedding employees and junking various projects within the identify of tax write offs. (Regardless of this, some initiatives have survived.)

As for what the proposed present would’ve been, Craig stated the titular hillbillies, performed once more by Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine, would’ve been detectives “stupidly making an attempt to determine what’s occurring in a world the place they’re at all times getting it mistaken and individuals are dying round them.” Whereas that concept could also be achieved for, Craig stated he’ll at all times wish to make a sequel to his function movie debut. “It’s arrange for it, and after I wrote it, there have been these parts I wished to observe,” he stated. “Hollywood is a slayer of nice concepts, however keep alive, followers! As a result of there’s at all times a risk.”

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