Director Sam Raimi has a new film in theaters with “Send Help,” but he’s also been producing a slew of various genre projects and was a producer on the alligator survival horror flick “Crawl” (Quentin Tarantino once named it as one of his favorite films of the year). A sequel, “Crawl 2,” was announced with the plan to move the setting to New York City (a cheeky reference to the urban myth of flushed baby alligators leading to a bunch of gators living underneath Manhattan Island in the sewer system). However, there has been a question of what the status of the film is.
While he remains optimistic, speaking with The Wrap, Raimi is waiting to hear from the new brass running Paramount Pictures after David Ellison‘s Skydance acquired the studio and is still hopeful they’ll end up making “Crawl 2.”
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“We’ve been trying to get a go from the studio, and they changed hands, Paramount Pictures did, and now the new group that’s come in I’ve worked with before, the ladies and gentlemen that are great at development, and they’re interested in ‘Crawl 2.’ That’s all I could really say right now, is now I’ve got a new hope to make it,” Raimi said of the fate of “Crawl 2.”
“It’s a little bit, I think, embarrassing to make an alligator in the basement picture. I don’t know if that’s what their lofty ambitions were, but I think there’s a crowd that loves those kinds of films, if they’re well-made and honestly trying to make this suspenseful and scary and get to know the characters, if they’re really trying to do that, there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Yes, it’s a B movie, but it’s a blast. I really like that kind of picture.”
The original film, written by The Rasmussen Brothers from 2019, starred Kaya Scodelario (“Maze Runner” franchise) and Barry Pepper (“Saving Private Ryan”) as they deal with a Category 5 hurricane causing mass flooding in Florida, leading to their homestead being overrun by giant man-eating alligators after her father (Pepper) is seriously injured in a crawlspace. Since then, Scodelario was a supporting lead opposite Theo James in Guy Ritchie‘s gangster spinoff series “The Gentlemen” and returns for the upcoming second season, arriving later this year on Netflix.
This all comes after “Crawl” director Alexandre Aja recently lined up his next project, a sequel to the French shark creature feature “Under Paris” that was previously helmed by Xavier Gens, as reported by THR earlier this month.
Also, Raimi is trying to get a new “Darkman” movie going at Universal Pictures after recently revealing that he had two unnamed directors attached and there had been some interest from Liam Neeson about reprising the horror-adjacent anti-hero.
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