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Director Fred Dekker Talks Ideas for The Monster Squad Sequel

In a recent interview with Fred Dekker, Dekker opened up about his ideas for a sequel to The Monster Squad. The movie was written by Shane Black and directed by Dekker back in 1987. It was humorous, terrifying, and had teen angst. Everything you needed in an 80s monster movie.

Dekker spoke about the project:

“The answer is no, nobody had any interest in doing a sequel to that movie because the movie didn’t do any business. But if we had, if it had been a freak success, and we had a gun to our head to come up with a new one, I would be a little bit at odds about what to do with it.”

Dekker continued:

“I have a new [idea] now. There is a world where Monster Squad is still alive, Shane Black and I, in about a year-plus, will co-own the rights to it, so it’s something that I’ve been thinking about, but it’s gotta be done right or not do it,” the filmmaker admitted. “I’m thinking about it as a series. But as a sequel, if we were gonna do a one-off sequel back in the day, the only thing I could think to do is skip ahead to the atomic monsters of the ’50s. Because we’d done all the ’40s monsters, there’s nobody left, really.

The Invisible Man, although he’s not really a monster. So my thought is I love Tarantula, I love Them!, although that’s a Warner Bros. movie. The giant insects and the melting face from Tarantula and the Metaluna mutant [from This Island Earth]. Even Universal had some really cool monsters in the ’50s that they didn’t have in the ’40s and that might be the route to go.”

What do you think about Dekker’s idea about a sequel to The Monster Squad?

Source: ComicBook

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