After several sequels, a prequel and a different TV series, Kevin Bacon is returning to theTremorsfranchise. After 27 years, a new TV series about the giant, killer sandworms, known as Graboids, is heading to TV and, after some months in limbo, it looks like the project is headed to SyFy. The network is going to make a pilot and, if all goes well, the new take onTremorswill go to series for at least one season.
The news comes directly from Kevin Bacon, as reported byScreen Daily. The actor was recently attending the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which is where he revealed that SyFy, formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel, is doing theTremorsTV series, with Blumhouse’s Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity,Get Out) producing. Here’s whatKevin Baconhad to say about returning to the character of Valentine McKee after more than 25 years.
“It’s the only character I’ve ever played that I was interested in exploring 25 years later…It (Tremors) is a really good movie. I don’t go back and watch my movies but because we were doing this one, I had to go back and look at it. It’s just the idea of this loser who is living a very ordinary life and has anextraordinary experiencewith these monsters and becomes, for a moment, a hero.”
Despite Kevin Bacon’s absence from theTremors franchisesince the original 1990 movie, the series has been quite persistent.Tremors 6is set to arrive on July 17, 2025, which features Michael Gross as Burt Gummer, who has been present for everyTremorsproject since the original. He even appeared in the prequel,Tremors 4: The Legend Beginsand the 2003 TV series. Interestingly enough, both of those projects were done for the Sci-Fi Channel. With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that they are going to produce this newTremorsshow, especially sinceKevin Bacon is on board. It isn’t clear if Michael Gross is going to appear in this show as well, but that is where things could get a little complicated.
Up to this point, theTremorscanon has been pretty much consistent. Since Kevin Bacon is playing Valentine again, does that mean this show will adopt all of the continuity of the other movies? Or is it going to act more like a direct sequel to the original? For the most part, there wouldn’t be much of a reason for the newTremorsshow to throw out what the other movies have done, since they all pretty much just involved people killing giant worms. Plus, it would allow for other characters, such as Burt Gummer, to return.
It sounds like things are in the relatively early stages at SyFy right now, but with a network attached, things should get moving now. Assuming the pilot goes well, the plan is to have this be a miniseries, when last we heard from Kevin Bacon about it. Let’s just hope theTremors TV seriescan budget out some sweet practical Graboid creature effects.
