After 15 years, the co-writer and director of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil remains to be conserving hope alive for a followup to the cult comedy horror.
Eli Craig not too long ago mirrored on his 2010 directorial debut and teased “there’s at all times a chance” for a sequel, regardless of a earlier tried TV collection spinoff being axed by then Discovery CEO David Zaslav.
“Actually, Tucker and Dale 2 has died extra deaths than the faculty youngsters in Tucker and Dale,” he advised SlashFilm. “We’ve had so many variations which have nearly obtained off its ft or, for one purpose or one other, have gotten killed. It actually does set us again that individuals can’t take a look at the field workplace, the precise field workplace, of the film.”
With an 86% Tomatometer ranking and 85% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie solely grossed $223,838 in the US, however surpassed $5 million in worldwide markets.
Craig added, “It’s at all times been a battle, after which once we do set it up, and we get all of the items collectively, it will get killed by some means. We nearly did a TV present with it that was on TNT/TBS, and also you’ll be blissful to know that David Zaslav, the slayer of all cinema [laughs], got here in and put the ultimate nail within the coffin for Tucker and Dale as we had been about to go to collection, and simply cancelled all manufacturing.”
Katrina Bowden and Tyler Labine in ‘Tucker & Dale vs. Evil’ (2009) (Dan Energy/Maple Photos/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
For the reason that present is “not going to exist anymore,” Craig defined that it will have been “extra like Tucker and Dale, however detectives. Detective Tucker and Dale, like, stupidly making an attempt to determine what’s occurring in a world the place they’re at all times getting it unsuitable and individuals are dying round them.”
Noting that plans for a sequel have “been by way of a number of deaths,” Craig stays hopeful for an additional installment, so long as the followers need one.
“There’s part of me that thinks it may very well be the primary and final film I ever make. Possibly I’ll be shifting alongside on a walker with Tucker and Dale and we’re like, ‘We’re making this!’” stated Craig. “I’ve by no means fully let go of the thought we’d make a sequel. And a part of the rationale folks wish to see a sequel is as a result of it’s arrange for it. Tucker and Dale, after I wrote it, there have been these parts I wished to comply with, like Chad remains to be alive, Allison and Dale’s story. So I at all times wished to do a sequel, however Hollywood is a slayer of nice concepts. However keep alive, followers! As a result of there’s at all times a chance.”
Starring Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine because the titular backwoods buddies, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil lampoons the slasher style, following a bunch of faculty youngsters taking a visit into the woods. After they find yourself getting killed off in ridiculously weird accidents, the vacationers profile the pleasant hillbillies as a pair of ruthless killers.
