How did the idea of the life cycle evolve? Back in ‘Tremors 2’ (before ‘3’) the pitch was that the shriekers would grow into graboids (the design clues being the translucent beak, the little spikes, and the tongues that look like three ‘fused’ tentacles about to separate). In ‘Tremors 3’ El Blanco can’t produce shriekers and they compare it to a sterile albino goat, and yet it’s the a**blasters laying eggs. So what’s the structure of the life cycle? Is the a**blaster an ‘adult’ stage, or is there no definite adult stage?

Truthfully, the life cycle evolved with Universal offering us more movies.  While we implied that a shrieker might grow into a graboid, we left it open, giving ourselves the freedom to come up with a new form if we got the green light for Tremors 3.  At that time Universal insisted that Tremors 3 would be the last movie, and that there was absolutely no financial incentive to do more.  So we decided to close the life cycle loop and have ABs be the egg layers.  So, yes, ABs are technically the “adult” stage, even though graboids seem more “adult.”  Ironically, very soon thereafter Universal asked us for Tremors 4 and SyFy asked us for the series.  Had we known all THAT was going to happen, maybe we could have invented a 4th form of graboid!

How did the idea of the life cycle evolve? Back in ‘Tremors 2’ (before ‘3’) the pitch was that the shriekers would grow into graboids (the design clues being the translucent beak, the little spikes, and the tongues that look like three ‘fused’ tentacles about to separate). In ‘Tremors 3’ El Blanco can’t produce shriekers and they compare it to a sterile albino goat, and yet it’s the a**blasters laying eggs. So what’s the structure of the life cycle? Is the a**blaster an ‘adult’ stage, or is there no definite adult stage? was last modified: May 30th, 2018 by S.S. Wilson

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