The Hills Have Eyes Sequel

From Fangoria:
Wes Craven to write a Hills Have Eyes sequel. At a taping for his FANGORIA TV SCREAMOGRAPHY profile, Wes Craven revealed that he and son Jonathan will be writing the sequel to Alexandre Aja’s Hills Have Eyes remake.

After HILLS took in over $40 million in the U.S. alone, Craven and producing partner Marianne Maddalena offered the inevitable follow-up to Frenchman Aja (who co-wrote the redux with pal Gregory Lavasseur). Aja declined. “So my son and I decided to write it ourselves, and we are hard at work,” Craven says. “I wrote Last House On The Left in three days, so this shouldn’t be so tough.” Craven and son previously collaborated on the Lance Henriksen horror movie Mind Ripper, which, coincidentally, had begun life as a third Hills movie back in 1995 before being reconfigured as a stand-alone film. The latest HILLS 2 will ignore Craven’s own critically lambasted HILLS sequel from 1985, dog flashback and all. So with Aja out of the picture, who will direct the new HILLS?

“We’re talking with Michael J. Bassett, now that Alexander is busy on another project,” Craven reveals.

The new HILLS will shoot this summer, and Craven himself plans on directing a movie of his own in the next year. “I’m writing a film called BUG,” Craven says. “It’s an original script, and it’s not about killer insects. It’s a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.”

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