LEPRECHAUN Horror Reboot Finds a Director

Lionsgate and WWE Studios have hired Zach Lipovsky to direct their upcoming remake of the absurd horror film Leprechaun. The Wrap points out that Lipovsky was discovered as a contestant on the Steven Spielberg reality series On the Lot, which centered on 16 aspiring filmmakers competing for a development deal with DreamWorks. Since then he's made some short films and directed some TV movies. 

WWE's Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl will play the Leprechaun, who was previously played by Warwick Davis in the 1993 original, which also launched Jennifer Aniston's career. 

The original film was kind of a horror comedy that, followed an evil, sadistic leprechaun searching for his pot of gold while avoiding four-leaf clovers and killing people along the way. The script for the remake was written by Harris Wilkinson. There are no new details on it, but they plan on taking it in a new direction. It was previously reported that the movie would be a darker, more traditional horror film.

I enjoyed the ridiculousness of the original film, but it's really hard to imagine it as a traditional horror movie. Maybe the more serious they try to make it, the funnier it will be.