The L.A. Times recently talked to Don Coscarelli, Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister about the 30th Anniversary of the Phantasm films! When asked about a possible remake Coscarelli replied; “I get a phone call every week, it seems, from somebody who wants to do it. It’s something I’ve been resisting for a while. I do think that, given the proper context, it would really be exciting to see what a younger filmmaker could bring to that story. It’s something I’m open to but I guess I’m seeking the right circumstances. Takashi Miike doing ‘Phantasm,’ how would that be? Anything that would ever be done would have to be done with sensitivity to the appreciation that the fans have for it. They just worship Angus as the Tall Man and Reggie as the loyal trusted friend.”

And I would like to say… Some things should be left alone, and Phantasm is one of them. The Phantasm films are stuck in a decade and that is where they belong. Remaking the Phantasm films would be like giving Bret Michaels a weave, dressing him in an Ed Hardy shirt and telling teens that he is the new Jonas Brothers. It’s just not the kind of franchise that you can repackage and sell to kids.

We also don’t need a Takashi Miike version, a prequel and I could even do without a sequel.

And while we are talking about sequels… Coscarelli also mentioned that upcoming Phantasm project that we hinted about back in August.

“I’ve been cooking up a couple of incarnations of things that I can’t talk about now but hopefully in the near future we could get something in the “Phantasm” world happening.”

So for those of you who can’t move past the 70s or 80s, it looks like you may get your little red Phantasm wagon after all.

I wrote this really drunk Saturday night and do not feel like fixing it…