Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the weirdest news of the day, by far. The latest franchise to jump onto the "shared universe" train is so bizarre that I actually had to check the date and make sure I hadn't time traveled back to April 1st.
Remember Puppet Master? The Full Moon DTV series about killer puppets? Well, guess who's looking to make a come back.
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura and Calibre Media have optioned the rights and have set Bone Tomahawk's S. Craig Zahler to pen the first movie, titled Puppet Masters: The Littlest Reich, with the intention of doing multiple movies spinning off the different crazy puppet characters.
I'm not kidding! They even have a poster for the first movie:
The producers promised they're not going to CGI all the puppets and will stick to the visual creepy tone of the all-practical original films.
I'm so shocked this is happening I can't tell if it's a good move, a bad move or something crazy in-between. That's a lot of heavy hitters for a franchise that sputtered out about 4 movies ago, but I'm all for a darkly comic killer doll series actually making it to the big screen.
What do you folks think?
-Eric Vespe
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