Anyone following the progress of this book will know that 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the world’s greatest underground worm movie, Tremors. Now it seems Kevin Bacon wants to celebrate the fact.
Despite my best attempts to contact Kevin for the book, he’s not yet got back to me for an interview, which made the following interview such a surprise when I watched it this morning.
According to numerous reports over the years, Kevin considers Tremors to be a low point in his career, stemming from various personal issues in his own life at the time. Yesterday, in an interview with HuffPost Live, Kevin admitted he’d recently watched the film and was “pleasantly surprised” by it. He also admitted that he has “a real dream to reboot it, and to see the character 25 years down the line…to see what that guy may have become.”
Kevin also admitted to sleepwalking during the shoot in Lone Pine, California, “saving” his pregnant wife from giant worms.
How would you feel about a new Tremors film revisiting the character of Val McKee 25 years on? Should it also reunite him with original co-star, Fred Ward? We already know from Tremors 2: Aftershocks that Val married Rhonda LaBeck after the events of the first film – where is he now?
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Aug 27, 2014 @ 16:36:17
Last we heard, Val and Rhonda were still together. The only reference to them in Tremors II was that “Val married a good woman, why would he wanna die?”
Aug 27, 2014 @ 17:48:18
Good point, Cody, I’m afraid I was recently reading the original script for Tremors 2 in which…well, there’s more on that in the book.
Aug 27, 2014 @ 18:06:21
Okay, glad Cody asked, ’cause I about to say, the Rhonda thing made no sense, lol (I know you’ve fixed it now, but the original wording was on my email, so).
As for seeing Val and Fred again, I think that would be interesting. Although I’m not sure I’d want a movie with just them again. Maybe with them and Burt and Tyler as well. It’d be cool seeing both partnerships working together like that. Kinda bring the past and present together. I think that would be a very interesting/entertaining movie.
Sep 12, 2014 @ 23:27:10
It’d be interesting to have another film with no less than Kevin Bacon, but I hope they bring back Micheal Gross as well. It just wouldn’t be Tremors without Burt Gummer.