Tucker & Dale Director Blames David Zaslav for Killing TV Spinoff

The 15-year anniversary of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil was earlier in January, and if you’ve been holding out hope for a follow up, director/co-writer Eli Craig revealed it almost happened. During an interview with Slashfilm about his new horror flick Clown in a Cornfield, Craig noted the would-be sequel “has died more deaths than the college kids [in the first movie]. It’s always been a struggle, and then when we do set it up and get all the pieces together, it gets killed somehow.” One such version was a TV continuation on TNT/TBS (not unlike what happened with Chucky), but that ran into its own roadblock: namely, current Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav. “Zaslav, the slayer of all cinema, came in and put the final nail in the coffin for Tucker & Dale as we were about to go to series, and just canceled all production, ” said Craig. That, in and of itself doesn’t sound too surprising: presumably, this would’ve taken place sometime in 2022, shortly after WB and Discovery merged an ... Read full article.