Tucker & Dale Director Blames David Zaslav for Killing TV Spinoff

The 15-year day of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil was earlier successful January, and if you’ve been holding retired anticipation for a travel up, director/co-writer Eli Craig revealed it almost happened.

During an interrogation with Slashfilm astir his caller fearfulness flick Clown successful a Cornfield, Craig noted the would-be sequel “has died much deaths than the assemblage kids [in the archetypal movie]. It’s ever been a struggle, and past erstwhile we bash acceptable it up and get each the pieces together, it gets killed somehow.” One specified mentation was a TV continuation connected TNT/TBS (not dissimilar what happened with Chucky), but that ran into its ain roadblock: namely, existent Warner Bros. Discovery caput David Zaslav.

“Zaslav, the slayer of each cinema, came successful and enactment the last nail successful the coffin for Tucker & Dale as we were astir to spell to series, and conscionable canceled each production, ” said Craig. That, successful and of itself doesn’t dependable excessively surprising: presumably, this would’ve taken spot sometime successful 2022, soon aft WB and Discovery merged and the institution went astir laying disconnected unit and junking various projects successful the sanction of taxation constitute offs. (Despite this, some projects person survived.)

As for what the projected amusement would’ve been, Craig said the titular hillbillies, played again by Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine, would’ve been detectives “stupidly trying to fig retired what’s happening successful a satellite wherever they’re ever getting it incorrect and radical are dying astir them.” While that thought whitethorn beryllium done for, Craig said he’ll ever privation to marque a sequel to his diagnostic movie debut. “It’s acceptable up for it, and erstwhile I wrote it, determination were these elements I wanted to follow,” helium said. “Hollywood is simply a slayer of large ideas, but enactment alive, fans! Because there’s ever a possibility.”

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