Two weeks ago I wrote a post about Michael Gross, Burt Gummer in the "Tremors" franchise, stated he was going to South Africa for a project. The very same country Don Michael Paul said they were going to film the reboot of "Tremors" in. Not long after that post Michael posted he was was on his way abroad, but it wasn't until just earlier this week that he finally posted his "Day one on location" post. Where was he on location? South Africa.
The location isn't what's the most interesting, we already knew he was going there, what's more interesting is Michael's big engagement in the comment thread of that post. Particularly a few comments here and there that are definitely meant to tease people for something "Tremors" related. Of course there are a lot of fans posting things related to Tremors and Michael responding in jest, but sometimes he references the beloved franchise without necessarily having been nudged in that direction. At one point someone is trying to identify some animal droppings in the picture accompanying the post with the following comment: "The zebra and wildebeest are civilized... Which leaves..... ? [sic]" Michael simply responds with: "Hmm, something Precambrian?" For those who not in the know, the Precambrian is when the franchise's key monster, the graboid, is supposed to have originated, they found fossils from that period in the second film which where argued to be of a graboid's spikes. I'm not surprised Michael Gross has retained that kind of in-depth knowledge of the franchise, but him leaving that as a response to a comment which wasn't alluding to "Tremors" to begin with is indeed interesting.
Later on there's a lot more up-front references. In response to a fan's inquiry of pictures of the supposed Tremors sets Michael says:
An awful lot of information and linkage for something that he won't even say isn't happening. At this point I think it's more than fair to say that something related to "Tremors" is definitely happening. And considering Don Michael Paul said in his now-deleted blog post that it's supposed to be a reboot of Tremors, and Michael Gross saying at his Q&A appearance that it is supposed to be based on a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock from right after "Tremors 4: The Legend Begins" it is more than reasonable to say that Universal is trying to reboot, or reignite, the "Tremors" franchise with a new sequel which already was supposed to be pretty stand-alone compared to the first two sequels.
Only time will tell exactly what is going on. But it is going on, right now, and like Michael Gross himself said. There seems to be Universal interest in the subject.
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