After 15 years, the co-writer and director of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil continues to be protecting hope alive for a followup to the cult comedy horror.
Eli Craig just lately mirrored on his 2010 directorial debut and teased “there’s all the time a risk” for a sequel, regardless of a earlier tried TV collection spinoff being axed by then Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
“Actually, Tucker and Dale 2 has died extra deaths than the school children in Tucker and Dale,” he instructed SlashFilm. “We’ve had so many variations which have virtually bought off its toes or, for one motive or one other, have gotten killed. It actually does set us again that folks can’t have a look at the field workplace, the precise field workplace, of the film.”
With an 86% Tomatometer ranking and 85% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie solely grossed $223,838 in america, however surpassed $5 million in worldwide markets.
Craig added, “It’s all the time been a wrestle, after which once we do set it up, and we get all of the items collectively, it will get killed one way or the other. We virtually did a TV present with it that was on TNT/TBS, and also you’ll be blissful to know that David Zaslav, the slayer of all cinema [laughs], got here in and put the ultimate nail within the coffin for Tucker and Dale as we have been about to go to collection, and simply cancelled all manufacturing.”
Katrina Bowden and Tyler Labine in ‘Tucker & Dale vs. Evil’ (2009) (Dan Energy/Maple Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
For the reason that present is “not going to exist anymore,” Craig defined that it will have been “extra like Tucker and Dale, however detectives. Detective Tucker and Dale, like, stupidly attempting to determine what’s taking place in a world the place they’re all the time getting it flawed and persons are dying round them.”
Noting that plans for a sequel have “been by a variety of deaths,” Craig stays hopeful for one more installment, so long as the followers need one.
“There’s part of me that thinks it could possibly be the primary and final film I ever make. Perhaps I’ll be transferring alongside on a walker with Tucker and Dale and we’re like, ‘We’re making this!’” stated Craig. “I’ve by no means utterly let go of the thought we’d make a sequel. And a part of the rationale folks need to see a sequel is as a result of it’s arrange for it. Tucker and Dale, after I wrote it, there have been these parts I needed to comply with, like Chad continues to be alive, Allison and Dale’s story. So I all the time needed to do a sequel, however Hollywood is a slayer of nice concepts. However keep alive, followers! As a result of there’s all the time a risk.”
Starring Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine because the titular backwoods buddies, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil lampoons the slasher style, following a gaggle of faculty children taking a visit into the woods. After they find yourself getting killed off in ridiculously weird accidents, the vacationers profile the pleasant hillbillies as a pair of ruthless killers.
