Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)
Do you remember a few years ago when it was reported the Leprechaun franchise was coming back? Lionsgate apparently means it for real this time, as it’s brought on two writers to script its new film. That would be Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, according to Deadline.
- ▪Do you remember a few years ago when it was reported the Leprechaun franchise was coming back?
- ▪Lionsgate apparently means it for real this time, as it’s brought on two writers to script its new film.
- ▪That would be Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, according to Deadline.
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Do you remember a few years ago when it was reported the Leprechaun franchise was coming back? Lionsgate apparently means it for real this time, as it’s brought on two writers to script its new film. That would be Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, according to Deadline. After previously teaming on 2022’s Unhuman and the screen story for 2019’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the pair have reunited to revitalize this dormant franchise. In the producer’s chair are father-and-son duo Oren and Miles Koules—longtime producers on the Saw franchise—with the latter telling Deadline he was ready to work on “a terrifying new way into the rich world of Leprechaun.“ Last we heard in 2023, Lionsgate had filmmaker Felipe Vargas on hand to direct a new Leprechaun in what would’ve been his feature…
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