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WarnerMedia is currently developing the animated prequel series “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai” for a likely premiere on HBO Max sometime in 2021, and it will mark the official return of the franchise for the first time since 1990’s Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Both original films were directed by Joe Dante, who reveals that he is involved with the HBO Max series!

Speaking with Daily Dead, Dante noted that he’s “consulting” on the project.

“It’s going to be good. I’m very pleased with the way it’s going,” Dante told the site. “It’s a prequel. It goes back to the character Mr. Wing when he was a boy, and when he first discovered the Mogwai. It’s set in China in the ’20s, and it’s animated and it’s very big in the sense that if you tried to shoot it as a theatrical film, it would be outrageously expensive. But in animation, you kind of get away with almost anything you can think of. And it’s probably not going to be done until 2021 or maybe the end of 2020. It’s for HBO Max, a new streaming variant of HBO.”

Dante continued, “I think this is a really clever way to get back into [the franchise]. I think that they found it pretty difficult to make a sequel to Gremlins 2, because of just the way I made it. And they just could never really quite figure out how to do it. So I think this is a great way to sort of get the franchise back on people’s minds.”

froodle

Another project I have to mention that got me into horror, was that show that you were involved in called Eerie, Indiana. As a kid watching the "Foreverware" episode, it just left an indelible mark on my mind. And I always feel like that show was Twin Peaks for a younger audience.

Joe Dante: Well, it was. It was, in a way. It was also pre-X-Files. It was X-Files junior.

Did you get approached to be a part of that? Because you ended up directing several episodes.

Joe Dante: I talked to the guys about doing the pilot. And I really liked it. I got pretty close to the group and I got involved in the casting and all that, and I really had a good time. And when the pilot sold, they said, "Why don't you come on and be the creative consultant?" And so I got to have input into all the stories and all that kind of stuff. And whenever I was available I got to direct some. I was supposed to direct the one that I'm in, which is the last episode, the "Reality Takes a Holiday," where Marshall learns that he's an actor in a TV show. And I was working on Matinee, or I was going to work on Matinee, and I wasn't available. I said, "But I'll play myself."

So I'm in it. But it was directed by Ken Kwapis. And it was supposed to be the last episode of the show, and it was designed to be. But there was another episode, that they hadn't run, about backward masking, because it was considered too controversial. There's this father, and he doesn't want his kid listening to rock music, but when you play it backwards... that was in the news at the moment as a sort of a controversial religious thing. They wouldn't run that episode at all. But when they put the show together for the DVD, they took that episode and put it last, even though it's from the middle of the season. And so you don't get to really enjoy "Reality Takes a Holiday" as the end of the show, which is what it was supposed to be.

froodle

Interview: Joe Dante Discusses CAMP COLD BROOK, THE ’BURBS, SMALL SOLDIERS, GREMLINS: SECRETS OF THE MOGWAI, and EERIE, INDIANA https://t.co/wcu9ygCYHH @joe_dante @ShoutFactory @Scream_Factory pic.twitter.com/YYh2c5yMh4
— Daily Dead (@DailyDeadNews) February 15, 2020

froodle

As someone who was forever changed after seeing the "Foreverware" episode of EERIE, INDIANA, it was an absolute honor to talk with the great @joe_dante about executive producing the new horror film CAMP COLD BROOK and much more! https://t.co/zBDxMLxyXE
— Derek Anderson (@Derek_TMM) February 15, 2020