14 DAY TRIAL // Some critics may have hated this year’s gorefest “Piranha 3D” but, as box office figures show, audiences loved it. As such, it’s no wonder Dimension Films is already working on a sequel, which will arrive in theaters in late summer 2011.
As we also informed you at the time, “Piranha 3D” got director James Cameron all hot under the collar because of the hasty 3D conversion, which, he believes, is soiling the reputation of 3D cinematography.
Fans of the genre clearly did not see things in the same light, since the film, boasting a modest $20 million budget (plus another $20 million on marketing), went on to make more than $70 million – and it’s still to open in some countries.
Understandably, Dimension wants to capitalize on that and is already rushing to have a sequel out in late summer of next year: a difficult, but not impossible feat, as Deadline points out.
“Dimension has set John Gulager to direct and Saw 3D scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan to write Piranha 3 DD, the sequel to last summer’s toothy fish fest that found itself earning the ire of Cameron,” the e-zine notes.
“For the sequel, Dimension’s Bob Weinstein has reassembled the team behind Feast, the Dimension horror film that served as a season of the TV show Project Greenlight. The director and writers got their starts on that low-budget horror film,” the same publication informs.
The only condition for “Piranha 3DD” to make the late summer release date is for the screenwriters to come up with a working script in a very short time – which shouldn’t be that hard.
“Much of the cast, including Eli Roth, became chum in the bloody waters, but whoever remains from the original cast might be back, along with some surprising thesps who’ll serve as fresh meat,” Deadline says.
“Making a late summer date will be difficult, but not impossible, if the writers nail the script in the next four weeks. Let’s face it, they aren’t writing Citizen Kane here,” says the same movie-oriented publication.
Keep an eye on this space for further details, which are bound to emerge in the following weeks.