No Gremlins 3 just yet?

This weekend, Dante is being honoured at Cine-Excess IV, a conference of global cult film traditions in London and with the recent surge in 80's classics being remade, re-imagined, reincarnated or rebooted, it was only a matter of time before Gremlins joined the list.

According to director Joe Dante “It’s been heavily booted around on the internet that there is a Gremlins 3 and then somebody said ‘Gremlins 3? Gremlins 3-D! I bet it’s a sequel in 3-D and I bet they’re gonna ask Joe to do it!” Well the answer is no, no and no.”

He went on to say “I’m sure it’ll happen. It’s too valuable a title to not get the remake treatment. I think it will be a remake rather than a sequel. I think they’ll start over and do a remake or a sequel.”

What we definitely will see, later this year, is The Hole 3D, Dante’s first feature film as a director since Looney Tunes: Back In Action, what can we expect from it is anyones guess but Dante did say “It’s a retro type horror picture, the type of movie that I was doing in the ‘80's, t’s about a bunch of kids who go down to the basement of a new house and find a door with locks on it among the junk in the basement is. Like any respectable movie kids, their mission is to get this door open and see what’s in there."