A new Leprechaun film is formally within the works at Lionsgate, in accordance with The Hollywood Reporter.
What do we all know in regards to the new Leprechaun film?
The longest-running franchise in Lionsgate historical past will get a brand new movie from director Felipe Vargas, the director of the award-winning brief movie Milk Tooth.
The reboot shall be written by Mike Van Waes, who most lately labored on the live-action Lilo & Sew movie. Roy Lee — who has produced different horror movies like Barbarian and It — will produce for his Vertigo Leisure banner.
In accordance with THR, Warwick Davis — who performed The Leprechaun in six of the eight movies within the franchise — just isn’t anticipated to reprise his iconic function. No different plot or casting info has been made out there as of now.
“Thirty years after its debut, this franchise nonetheless casts a spell, and we’re thrilled to be bringing it again with a brand new imaginative and prescient,” Erin Westerman, president of manufacturing for Lionsgate’s Movement Image Group, stated in an announcement. “Roy and Miri are two of our most trusted producers, particularly with this style, and we’re excited by Felipe’s imaginative and prescient for the movie as a director. In his palms, this film needs to be very scary and a ton of enjoyable.”
The Leprechaun just isn’t solely one of many longest-running for Lionsgate, however can be one of the vital well-known horror franchises ever. The primary movie premiered in 1993 and starred Warwick Davis within the titular function. Davis performed a mischievous leprechaun who would search out folks that took his gold.
The franchise went on to spawn off six extra sequels, the most recent of which was 2018’s Leprechaun Returns. That movie acted as a direct sequel to the unique, however was met with combined opinions.
