This question gets into areas of legality on which we can’t give advice. But the harder part would be getting Universal to look at it. You’d probably have to get a Hollywood agent to make an official submission to them.
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Any chance of a Tremors the series revival on say netflix or hulu. Particularly if Tremors 5 does well.
Universal Studios has total control over what happens with Tremors, not us. This sort of question should really go to them.
Why does the tentacle on the box looks weirder than ever? The tentacle on the first, third, fourth, and fifth looks like it. The TV series and second one looks terrible. Also, the eye?!
We have no answers to this sort of question about Tremors 5. You’ll have to send your questions to Universal Studios.
If there is a Tremors 6, will Stampede be back in control of it? Would you ever be willing to make another tremors sequel? If not how come?
You fans are great! You’re already thinking about Tremors 6! Yes, we would certainly be willing to work on any new Tremors, if we were given the creative control we enjoyed on the first four. Sadly, at this time (June 2016) it seems unlikely that we will be invited back to the franchise.
Why weren’t there shriekers in Tremors 5?
Since Universal did not want us to work on Tremors 5, we have no information about it. We were not involved in the writing, casting, editing, production or post production. All questions about Tremors 5 should be sent to Universal Studios.
Even though you did not work on Tremors 5, what did you think of it?
Only one member of the original Tremors creative team has seen Tremors 5. We’ve decided to let the fans make up their own minds about it — by buying or not buying it, before we weigh in with our opinions.
Update: June 2015. SS Wilson is still the only team member who has seen Tremors 5. He was disappointed. The new monster designs were fun and interesting. But the idea of tentacles running around like independent snakes was ridiculous. In the end, he felt the new installment had many story and logic issues and broke most of the rules we tried so hard to maintain during our time with the series.
What ever happened to Earl’s ostrich ranch after he moved down to Mexico? Did Miguel take over it?
We don’t think Earl and Grady stayed in Mexico. We think they took their money and returned to open their theme park in the U.S. But, that said, we never thought about what happened to the ostriches! As I often do, I congratulate this fan on a creative soliton. Miguel would totally have wanted to take over the ostriches. He was probably a better rancher than Earl, anyway.
In tremors 5 were there plans for new kinds of graboids
In our version the Australian Graboids looked somewhat different, but that was all.
Did you know that Kevin Bacon wants to do another Tremors film?
[September, 2015.] We know that Kevin has, after all these years, finally decided that Tremors is an okay movie. It will be interesting to see if that sparks any new interest in new versions or a remake.
Since ABs seem to be the most stable form in the Graboid life cycle, could you domesticate them — teach them not to eat human-shaped objects? Then you could keep them as pets that could help you hunt like a hunting dog.
Well —— sure. Why not? AB hunting dogs. Gotta love how fans think!
Was Buford about to try to rape Mindy?
Well — these are supposed to be family movies. He was definitely a creepy guy, but we don’t like to think he was really THAT creepy.
What were some changes made from the original scripts of the films. i.e. deleted characters, locations, scenes, name changes
All the Tremors scripts were write-to-shoot. That means, once we worked out the stories, we didn’t do a lot of extra writing or experimentation. We stuck to the stories and made the scripts as easy to produce as possible, including when we handed off the actual screenplay writing on T-3 and T-4. Probably the biggest change in any of the scripts is in Tremors 2. It was written to star Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward, and to include Reba McIntire. When Kevin Bacon decided not to do the movie and Reba was not available, we had to do a pretty big re-write to invent the character of Grady and figure out the details of Burt’s separation from Heather.
I heard that the buildings at the end of tremors 2 wear a model are there any on set photos of those model buildin
Yes, the buildings that were blown up were beautiful 1/4 scale models. I’m not sure what other pictures there may be, but there is one shot showing them in the distance in Jonathan Melville’s new book on Tremors, “Seeking Perfection.”
Since Universal has rewritten the Tremors 5 script and produced it without participation from stampede is their any possible way to release the original draft of the Tremors 5 script as a pdf? The one set in australia from 2005. I know you previously said no because Universal might make it later but now that they are using a different script has the chances of that changed at all?
Sorry. Still no can do. Universal owns and controls all versions of the material.
Why don’t you send the creatures to DC to swallow up the sellouts to the IMF?
Uh — what? Okay, Graboids are seriously NOT political. Like, at all.
In the opening scene at the cliff, in the shot of the cattle, the sun clearly overhead, like high noon with heat waves. Yet when Val wakes Earl up, he says, “Good morning Mr. Bassett, this is your wake-up call.” Why?
Answer 1: Earl slept very late.
Answer 2: You shoot low budget movies as fast as you can, from sun-up to sundown. You usually don’t have a choice where the sun is. So you just hope people won’t notice and send you questions 25 years later.
How did Rhonda, after grabbing the lighter out of her pocket, catch up to Val and Earl since they had been running full tilt for 14 seconds?
Finn Carter would laugh if she read this question. She had a heck of a time that day. We shot and re-shot the three of them running many times. It was insanely hot and she was super exhausted. That said, remember that she is calling after Val and Earl, “I’ve got it! I’ve got it!” So, clearly, they slowed down and let her catch up. The way the footage is edited, that might not be clear, but that is totally what happened. In my mind.
Update: here’s an answer from a helpful fan who emailed Stampede. Thanks!
“Because Rhona runs faster than both of them. At the beginning of the movie, she easily catches up to Val and Earl with her backpack on when they run on the rocks from the worms.”
How come the tentacle on their truck is not seen when they drive away from the hillside where “Stumpy” grabbed their axle?
Well, we tried to shoot and edit that scene so that you never really see the back of the truck or very far underneath. Hopefully it’s not too much of a cheat
How come shriekers and ass blasters are treated as more dangerous then graboids, given that graboids are protected by the conservationists. Is it because graboids are less dangerous or shreikers and ass blasters aren’t needed for study?
Good question! Here’s a sort of partial answer. It takes the government a long time to pass laws about anything. Since Graboids were the first creatures discovered, they were the first to be protected. Shriekers and ABs will probably be protected at some point, when public outcry becomes loud enough, but at the time we did the series, that hadn’t happened yet.
How come graboids dont just reach up onto rocks with their tentacles even on rocks where they could easily reach i understand some rocks are to tall but some in the series could easily been reached?
Ah, but rocks are like icebergs. You don’t know how far under the ground they go. Is it not possible that the rock extends out and down underground, preventing the Graboid from reaching all the way up?
In the episode, “Water Hazard,” a song is playing on the radio while Rosalita is driving her car to Melvin’s development, The Oasis. The predominant lyrics seem to be “What have you got to lose”. Was this a real (full) song and, if so, what was the title and who was the artist?
Fans, I need your help on this one. I didn’t with the editors and music-cutters on the series, so I have no idea. Does anyone recognize this song?
What happened to Burt’s “UZI 4U” license plate? Why wasn’t he using it in the series?
I am embarrassed to say I never noticed he did not have the plate in the series. All I can say is a lot of things were happening very fast as we did the series and Tremors 4 back-to-back. Maybe we just forgot?
Since the series (in 2003) do you think Perfection has gained any new residents or has it been pretty much the same?
We’d love to get the chance to explore that. Our feeling is that while there are people who think they’d like to live there, once they realize how isolated, hot, and desolate it really is, they quickly move away again. That said, I think the sheer notoriety of El Blanco and the increased tourist traffic would ensure that there are at least a few new residents
Over the last 10 years we have seen a huge change in technology, especially with things like social media, iPhones and iPads. Do you think Perfection finally decided to bring cell phones technology into the valley? Maybe even use things like apps to track El Blanco? I would assume Jodi uses social media to promote Chang’s Market and the Graboid tours.
Absolutely! Jodi is all over that stuff, as is Burt, in his own paranoid way. I have no doubt he has put up his own repeater towers in the valley to boost weak cell signals and that Jodi is marketing an app that lets you search for El Blanco on your iPhone.
[May 2013] Why has G4 been doing Tremors series marathons on weekends? They have aired all the episodes a couple of times over the last few months. Could they possibly be interested in resurrecting the show and buying the Tremors Series rights from SyFy (or whoever owns the rights to the series). Would it be possible to get them on board for a Tremors 5 also?
Well, I know you feel we should know something just because we created, wrote and produced the show. But the fact is Universal, SyFy, G4 and whoever else never tell us what they’re doing or what they’re thinking. Believe it or not, I usually hear about stuff from fans, like now! My guess is somebody did some math and thought they’d make some extra advertising dollars doing a Tremors marathon. As for Tremors 5, they probably don’t even know the script exists. But again, I don’t know nothin’.