Michael Gross is Going to South Africa

Earlier this week I posted about Michael Gross warning fans of Tremors to "stay tuned", it seems that we might be learning more sooner rather than later.

In response to a woman asking Michael to attend a film festival Michael said: "[M]y only regret is that I will be in South Africa working on another project during [October 16-19]." Who else do we know is in South Africa at the moment? Don Michael Paul.

In his famous now-deleted blog post Don Michael Paul said that he was going to South Africa to start production on the reboot of Universal's Tremors franchise. This seems to be all but confirmed as being what's happening right now. Don Michael Paul has been in South Africa for over a month, but we had heard nothing more from the supposed star Michael Gross until now. It seems that shooting on Tremors 5 has been delayed about a month from Michael's guess in the Tremors Q&A, but that doesn't seem to matter much. It's all happening now, and if the schedule is still somewhat correct we could expect a release to be as early as the 25th anniversary itself, January 19th. It's not that uncommon for quick turnarounds in the straight-to-video market, but more likely it will turn up some time during the summer of 2015. Depending on how much money Universal is willing to throw at the production to speed it up. They do seem rather keen on getting it out there these days.