The animated Gremlins prequel series, Secrets of the Mogwai, for HBO Max has just scored a consultant that will really know the source material
Director of the original Gremlins movie, Joe Dante, has signed on to the show to help ensure it stays true to the vision he helped create all those years ago in 1984.
“I’m consulting on it…It’s good,” says Dante.
“It’s going to be good, yeah. I’m very pleased with the way it’s going.”
Going to to confirm much of what we already know about the series, he talks a bit more about where it’s set and what it will be about: “It’s a prequel. [It] goes back to the character Mr. Wing when he was a boy, and when he first discovered the Mogwai. It’s set in China in the ’20s, and it’s animated and it’s very big in the sense that if you tried to shoot it as a theatrical film, it would be outrageously expensive. But in animation, you kind of get away with almost anything you can think of.”
I am such a big fan of the original – not so much Joe Dante’s sequel – and to hear it’ll be more in the tone of the original means I have a little more excitement for this series and will definitely be tuning in when it arrives next year.
What say you all? Are you ready or more Gremlins or do you think enough is enough? Let me know your thoughts…
Marc
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