Shane Black Wants a MONSTER SQUAD Sequel and He Explains How He’d Do It

I remember watching Monster Squad in the theaters when it first came out in 1987. I was nine years old at the time and I loved it! I’ve always been into horror/monster movies so I loved seeing a group of kids take on some of the most iconic movie monsters of all time. The movie failed miserably at the box office but has since become a cult classic.

During an interview with IGN, screenwriter Shane Black talked about the film and expressed his interest in making a sequel. When talking about the original film he said:

“The cult surprised [me]. I didn't even realize it had been successful. I loved it, I had fun working on it and it was one of the first things I'd ever written. And it wasn't just that it wasn't a hit - it was a huge failure. No one saw it. I don't know how on earth it caught on years later.”

People just realized how awesome it was and those of who grew up in the '80s did everything we could spread it like wildfire. It worked, and now Black thinks it would be prime for a sequel and he talks about how he would attempt to pull it off. He suggests the Stephen King It approach: 

“When you say the kids are grown-up the first thing I go to is the movie, or the book really, It by Stephen King, which is about kids who fight monsters when they're young, then as grown-ups they're sort of beckoned and they have to return to their childhood hometown. And I think that's kind of close to what you're saying in a way. I don't know how you would distance yourself from that.
“It would be interesting to have two movies - one The Monster Squad, and one The Monster Squad and they're 30 years apart and so are the kids; the characters have aged. As long as people understood that's what we're doing, I think that could be fun. That's a good idea!”

I would actually love to see that a sequel like that. This idea is the way to go. It would be pretty cool if they managed to bring the same cast together for it. Black needs to start pitching this now before some Hollywood asshat attempts to remake it.

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