Disney can have Baby Yoda; Warner Bros. has the OG little guys with big ears. Gremlins 3 is on the way, CEO and Road Runner enemy David Zaslav revealed on his November 6 earnings call. Steven Spielberg will return to the franchise as producer, per The Hollywood Reporter. Chris Columbus, who wrote the first Gremlins film, returns to produce and direct as well as co-write with Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, who directed 2025’s successful Final Destination reboot. Gr3mlins will be out in theaters on November 19, 2027.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch was released in 1990, 35 years ago. While the 1984 original was a massive hit — earning $212 million on just an $11 million budget — The New Batch is a cult-classic bomb. It cost more than the first, with a reported budget of $50 million, and was significantly less successful, earning just over $40 million, per Consequence of Sound. As such, the Gremlins have not been let out of their cage until now.
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It’s not the first time a Gremlins reboot has been attempted, however. WB reportedly “fast tracked” a third film in the franchise back in 2015 — but it never happened. Columbus believed it would “impossible to revisit in a CGI environment.” “Those are edgy Muppets in a sense and you don’t want to lose that sense of anarchy that those gremlins had, because behind the scenes are 25 puppeteers making them come to life,” he said to Coming Soon in 2010. There is no confirmation yet on how the modern Gremlins will be created, but given Columbus’s involvement, there’s hope the film returns to puppeteers. How else can they re-create the beauty of Greta, the sexy-girl Gremlin introduced in the sequel? The people (namely Jade Thirlwall) demand more Greta.
