We’ve done Halloween and Exorcist, so how about another Poltergeist reboot?
MGM is developing a Poltergeist TV show set in "the world" of the film
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We’re in the waning hours of what some people call the spookiest season of the year, and Hollywood is apparently looking to conjure up some last-minute holiday spirit (spirit as in ghosts) before all of the ghouls and goblins turn into turkeys and mashed potatoes. But how do you come up with a new spooky idea when that’s literally impossible? Well, thankfully, there are countless old spooky ideas that can be endlessly recycled, and this time the winner is—reaches hand into plastic pumpkin, fishes around for something random and pulls it out—Poltergeist!
And before you say “uh, they just did a Poltergeist reboot in 2015,” this reboot will actually be for television, which is different from before, which is almost as good as coming up with something/anything new! The project is in the works at Amazon MGM, and there are no writers attached yet, so that means there’s not much concrete information we have about this. Variety, which originally reported this news, says that the show will “be set within the world of the film,” so this might be some kind of legacy sequel thing.
Maybe a new family will buy the lot/former cemetery that the house in the original movie was built on before it got sucked into a void? And someone will come along and say “the Craig T. Nelson family used to live here, but we don’t talk about what happened when their house got sucked into a void.” Also, if only because this is the cool thing to do now, we would assume that this will ignore everything that happened in Poltergiest II: The Other Side and Poltergeist III. Unless it takes place in the world of the 2015 film? That would certainly be a choice.
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Lemme guess, Craig T. Nelson will make a cameo reprising his old character, now haunted by his experiences, trying to warn the protagonists, only to be suddenly and brutally killed off.
Side comment – Nelson has aged surprisingly well. I guess it helped that he did most of that aging before he was 40.
38. He was 38 in Poltergeist and looked like what some 60 year olds look like today. Incredible…
The one that knocked me over was learning Burt Young was 36 when they filmed Rocky.
“Alcohol ruined my life. I’m 31 years old!”-Burgess Meredith, probably
Amazon MGM, and there are no writers attached yet, so that means there’s not much concrete information we have about this. Variety, which originally reported this news, says that the show will “be set within the world of the film,” so this might be some kind of legacy sequel thing.
They did a Poltergeist series in the 90’s, and it was literally subtitled The Legacy.
C’mon. You’re expecting an entertainment website to do literally any research about a piece of entertainment?
Oh wow, that’s a memory I didn’t expect to have. I can’t decide if I really liked that or really hated it. Creepy af though.
What’s the point without circa early ‘80s Jo Beth Williams?
Both the Halloween and Exorcist reboots were mediocre at best, serving only to tarnish the luster of the originals. How about no? How about we leave legacy IPs alone for maybe 2 fucking seconds?
Cry about it dork
that’s the best you can come up with? that actually does make me want to cry. c’mon you can do better. give me a nasty animated gif!
that’s the best you can come up with? that actually does make me want to cry. c’mon you can do better. give me a nasty animated gif!
Yes. Reboot the cursed franchise. What could go wrong?
Starring Will Poulter, no doubt? (It should…)
The TV show is going to initially appear out of continuity with the existing movies just to take a turn and reveal that it’s the nexus to the entire poltergeist multiverse.