{"id":199244,"date":"2025-10-14T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199244\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:11:08","slug":"this-was-a-terrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199244\/","title":{"rendered":"This was a terrible idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kevin<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Tue 14 October 2025 0:30, UK <\/p>\n

Even though he\u2019s never really been regarded as an A-lister despite his decades of success, Kevin Bacon<\/a> is still a big enough name that it\u2019s remarkable how the actor has made it through his entire career without ever reprising a single role.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s been involved in sequels, though, just not two films where he\u2019s played the same character. He lent support as a supervillain in X-Men: First Class, appeared in the third instalment in Ti West\u2019s X trilogy, hounded Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and played himself in James Gunn\u2019s The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.<\/p>\n

Few people, unless they\u2019ve got a very soft spot for straight-to-video shite, would even realise that Paul Verhoeven\u2019s Hollow Man<\/a> or Robert Schwentke\u2019s RIPD got follow-ups, but they both had less Bacon than a vegan diet. It\u2019s an admirable approach to his filmography, and it makes him one of the very few stars in Hollywood who\u2019ve managed to avoid returning to the well.<\/p>\n

That said, he did it once, and it didn\u2019t go so well. The only time the man everyone in the business can be connected to in sex degrees or less went against the grain and reprised a role for the first time, only for the end result to be mothballed and never released, with the only proof of its existence coming from footage that was screened to a captive audience years after the fact.<\/p>\n

As much as he hated it at the time, confessing he only took the role because his \u201ccareer was in the toilet,\u201d Bacon has grown fonder of Tremors with the passage of time<\/a>. The cult classic creature feature spawned five sequels, a prequel, and a short-lived TV series that was canned after a single season, none of which had anything to do with the actor who played Val McKee in the 1990 original.<\/p>\n

Almost three decades later, Bacon broke the habit of a lifetime when he signed on to play the monster-battling handyman in a television pilot in the hopes of securing a series order. Perhaps indicating that there was a reason why he\u2019d never repeated himself, the direct continuation of the first Tremors wasn\u2019t picked up, and it was never shown in full to anyone other than a smattering of TV executives.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first, I thought this was a terrible idea to do this as a series,\u201d he admitted when snippets of the failed pilot were screened in 2019, two years after it was rejected. \u201cAnd then I talked to Andrew [Miller, who wrote the pilot and was eying the showrunner\u2019s position] and thought it was a great idea to do this for TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was swayed by the chance to revisit McKee, whom he called \u201cpretty much the only character I\u2019d ever played in a movie that I ever thought, \u2018This would be a fun guy to check out 25 years later.’\u201d That\u2019s exactly what he did, and despite having a big name attached to a legacy sequel to a cult flick that\u2019s remained popular for over 30 years, nobody showed any interest in the project.<\/p>\n

The unaired Tremors pilot ignored all of the offshoots to pick up 25 years after Ron Underwood\u2019s opener, with McKee viewed as a national hero for his graboid-slaying exploits. His 15 minutes of fame were short-lived, though, with the planned series finding him as a booze-soaked husk who\u2019d driven his wife and daughter away, until another monster-sized threat presumably emerges. It\u2019s Bacon\u2019s only sequel, and it remains hidden under lock and key.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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