I’m not sure what it says about his director when his dream project is making a sequel to a horror movie that’s best remembered as a punchline, but whatever it does say, cut and paste it onto Darren Lynn Bousman. He tells MTV that his dream project is to make a new version of the 1993, Jennifer Aniston horror flick Leprechaun.
Actually wanting to make another Leprechaun is weird enough, but Bousman isn’t just happy trying to scare us with rainbows and a pot o’ gold. He wants to pull a Back to the Future III and set the whole thing in the old West. He says, “You send him in a time machine and transport him to the old west. There are gold rushes. There are gunfights. It’s awesome! I have the whole thing already worked out!” He’s joking right? He has to be joking doesn’t he? Because if he isn’t, this is either the worst idea I’ve ever heard, or, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, potentially the coolest thing ever.
Would he bring back Warwick Davis to terrorize people in his green tophat, or would he bring in some sort of animation? Is there a way to get Christopher Lloyd involved? Can a Leprechaun actually ride a horse, having such naturally stumpy legs? So many questions. Darren says he has the answers, and the whole thing is worked out and ready to go in his head. Someone give him cash, we need to see this outlandish disaster. It’s an idea so bad it has to work.
