No word on who the writer/director of the film will be. Joe Dante directed both the 1984 original and my personal favortie, the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Dante has registered barely a blip on the Hollywood radar ever since, with his last big project being 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action
. I'm curious to see where this goes. In all likelihood a new, upstart director will be put in place to helm the project. Dante's sortof a pariah at this point, even though he's getting good buzz on his lastest film, The Hole. But after 20 years out of the spotlight, the studio's gonna want to provide a fresh direction for the franchise. Personally I'm surprised they aren't starting completely from scratch. In fact, I think that's the direction this will eventually go in.
The only real questions remaining is the form the Gremlins will take. CGI or puppet, or some sort of combination of the two similar to Where the Wild Things Are
? And then of course, there's whether or not Phoebe Cates and Zach Galligan will be involved. You can't make a Gremlins movie without either of them. Period. Especially Cates. Yum.
