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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Stephen Chiodo Explains What Happened With SYFY’s Planned ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’ Movie

As you may recall, Bloody Disgusting had announced back in 2018 that SYFY entered talks to license the rights to make new feature films based on the Chiodo brothers’ Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) and Stephen Herek’s Critters (1986). The latter project ended up coming to life, with Critters Attack! releasing in 2019. But the former never ended up getting made.

What happened there? Stephen Chiodo breaks it down in a new chat with Slasher Radio.

There was a deal… MGM controls the rights… and they went to SYFY,” Chiodo explains to the podcast. “They did Critters, and you saw what that turned out to be like. But they wanted to do Klowns for like two million [dollars]. And we don’t want to do that… we did it for two million back in the ’80s. So we didn’t want to do it. And even MGM didn’t want to do it… they said it was a more valuable property than just signing off for that little money.”

As for MGM, it sounds like a regime change recently killed interest in the continuation of the Klowns franchise. As Chiodo explains, they’re still trying to generate enough internal interest in the brand. At this time, however, a Klowns follow-up project remains as elusive as ever.

“Right out of the gate we tried to do a sequel,” Chiodo recalls. “In fact we had a TV deal… USA TV we had a series. But the deal fell through like a lot of things do. And we have been trying to get the sequel going since 1988. And Hollywood is just a horrible machine. The film didn’t really get much box office… and when you want to get a sequel done, they look at the box office. They don’t regard cult films as something to invest in.”

He continues, “We have this whole long trilogy – something we call a trilogy in four parts because we include the original – a TV series for cable [or] streaming. And it follows the adventures of all the characters as they go through their lives, crushed after the first invasion. It would make a great mini-series. So we’re constantly selling that for people who are interested.”

Once they approached us to do a VR game, and I’ve got this whole thing planned out. I have this giant presentation. It was fucking fantastic,” Chiodo also mentions during the chat.

You can listen to Slasher Radio’s full conversation with Stephen Chiodo below.



source https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3663787/stephen-chiodo-explains-happened-syfys-planned-killer-klowns-outer-space-movie/

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