{"id":49005,"date":"2025-07-31T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:17:10","slug":"gremlins-3-script-is-waiting-on-steven-spielbergs-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49005\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gremlins 3&#8217; Script Is Waiting On Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSomeone call up Star Magic Jackson Jr., because a script for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gremlins\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gremlins\" data-tag=\"gremlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gremlins<\/a> 3 is reportedly on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/steven-spielberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Steven Spielberg<\/a>\u2018s desk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhile appearing at Comic-Con Manchester last week, Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/zach-galligan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zach-galligan\" data-tag=\"zach-galligan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Galligan<\/a> gave an update on the long-awaited threequel to the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joe-dante\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Joe Dante<\/a>-helmed Christmas creature features.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cAfter 35 years, they\u2019ve come up with a script,\u201d said Galligan in a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@comicmoviedb\/video\/7531726845360803094?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc\">TikTok<\/a> clip. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/warner-bros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Warner Bros<\/a>. is incredibly interested in doing it, apparently it\u2019s waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe actor credited \u201cthe success\u201d of last year\u2019s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice for getting Warner Bros. onboard for another installment of Gremlins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlthough it\u2019s currently unknown who is writing the followup, OG screenwriter <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chris-columbus\/\">Christopher Columbus<\/a> told Vanity Fair \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/chris-columbus-recalls-who-died-darker-gremlins-script-line-he-fought-for-1236242343\/\">that stuff is in my DNA<\/a>\u201d while reflecting on the film. \u201cWe had a lot of things that didn\u2019t make the final script,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSince Columbus didn\u2019t return for The New Batch, which was penned by Charles S. Haas, perhaps some of his ideas could make it to the screen this time around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarring Galligan, Phoebe Cates and Corey Feldman, Gremlins is about teenager Billy (Galligan), whose father gifts him a mysterious furry creature called a mogwai from Chinatown shop. With the ability to duplicate and turn into the titular monstrous creatures, the gremlins begin terrorizing Billy\u2019s small town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProduced by Warner Bros. Animation and Spielberg\u2019s Amblin Television, an animated prequel series premiered on HBO Max in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone call up Star Magic Jackson Jr., because a script for Gremlins 3 is reportedly on Steven Spielberg\u2018s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,36325,38075,206,16827,5251,36326],"class_list":["post-49005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-gremlins","tag-gremlins-3","tag-movies","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-warner-bros","tag-zach-galligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}