'Gremlins 3' is real: Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus reuniting for 2027 Mogwai movie

More Mogwai mayhem is connected the way.

A 3rd “Gremlins” movie is officially successful the works and eyeing a theatrical merchandise up of the 2027 vacation season, Warner Bros. Discovery President and Chief Executive David Zaslav announced Thursday during the company’s third-quarter net call. The upcoming task is acceptable to deed theaters Nov. 19, 2027, and volition reunite archetypal “Gremlins” scribe Chris Columbus with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, which produced the archetypal 2 “Gremlins” films.

Columbus volition nonstop and nutrient the movie and Spielberg returns arsenic an enforcement producer, Zaslav said. The caller “Gremlins” movie volition beryllium franchise’s archetypal movie successful much than 30 years. Columbus volition constitute the publication with “Final Destination Bloodlines” directing duo Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein.

Oscar nominee Columbus introduced audiences to the mysterious and maniacal ways of the Mogwai — furry, wide-eyed bipeds with elephantine ears — with the merchandise of “Gremlins” successful 1984. The archetypal film, directed by Joe Dante, established the 3 nonnegotiables of Mogwai care: Don’t get them wet, don’t provender them aft midnight and don’t exposure them to agleam light. Both the 1984 merchandise and its 1990 sequel, besides directed by Dante but written by Charles S. Haas, tracks the havoc that arises erstwhile the archetypal 2 rules are ignored, from unstoppable spawning to unruly mutation into Gremlins.

The “Gremlins” films starred Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Howie Mandel arsenic the dependable of two-toned Mogwai Gizmo and Frank Welker arsenic the voices of the films’ antagonists.

Though it has been decades since the past “Gremlins” movie deed the large screen, the furballs got their ain spotlight successful the 2023 animated prequel TV bid “Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.”

The series, from showrunner and enforcement shaper Tze Chun, took a heavy look into its namesake creatures’ origins, concisely hinted astatine successful the archetypal movie by shopkeeper Mr. Wing (played by the Chinese American histrion Keye Luke). “Secrets of the Mogwai” zooms successful connected Mr. Wing’s narration with Gizmo, who became a done enactment successful the “Gremlins” movies.

Series enforcement shaper Brendan Hay told The Times successful 2023 that mounting “Secrets of the Mogwai” successful 1920s China was “a accidental to ain the somewhat throwaway root that the Mogwai person successful the films.”

“In the films, it’s wide that they’re of Chinese origin, but it’s not that developed,” Hay said. “This is our accidental to archer that communicative and truly clasp it [by] really try[ing] to find a spot for Mogwai that fits into Chinese mythology, oregon astatine slightest builds disconnected of existing Chinese mythology, and person amusive successful that world.”

Galligan hinted this summertime that a caller “Gremlins” movie was successful the works portion appearing astatine Comic-Con Manchester. According to a TikTok, the histrion said “they’ve travel up with a script” and that Warner Bros. was “incredibly funny successful doing it, seemingly it’s waiting upon Mr. Spielberg to work it and o.k. it.”

“Gremlins” is the latest beloved rubric rebooted astatine Warner Bros. Discovery successful caller years. Others see “The Lord of the Rings,” “Harry Potter” and “Practical Magic.”

Times unit writers Tracy Brown and Samantha Masunaga contributed to this report.