Director Eli Craig Talks ‘Tucker & Dale vs. Evil’ Sequel Hopes, Scrapped TV Series

15 years removed from its Sundance debut, fans are still clamoring for the long-gestured sequel to Tucker & Dale vs. Evil.

In a recent interview with /Film, director/co-writer Eli Craig spoke about the the follow-up to the horror-comedy’s many false starts.

“Honestly, Tucker & Dale 2 has died more deaths than the college kids in Tucker & Dale,” Craig quipped. “We’ve had so many versions that have almost got off its feet or, for one reason or another, have gotten killed. It really does set us back that people can’t look at the box office, the actual box office, of the movie.”

Craig went on to reveal that David Zaslav — the notorious Warner Bros. Discovery CEO who scrapped completed productions like Batgirl, Scoob! Holiday Haunt, and Coyote vs. Acme for tax write-offs — killed a Tucker & Dale TV series.

“It’s always been a struggle, and then when we do set it up, and we get all the pieces together, it gets killed somehow. We almost did a TV show with it that was on TNT/TBS, and you’ll be happy to know that David Zaslav, the slayer of all cinema [laughs], came in and put the final nail in the coffin for Tucker and Dale as we were about to go to series, and just cancelled all production.”

Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk were set to reprise their titular roles on the show, which Craig described as “like Tucker & Dale, but detectives. Detective Tucker and Dale stupidly trying to figure out what’s happening in a world where they’re always getting it wrong and people are dying around them.”

Despite the hardships, Craig is keeping hope alive for a sequel.

“I’ve never completely let go of the idea we’d make a sequel. And part of the reason people want to see a sequel is because it’s set up for it. Tucker & Dale, when I wrote it, there were these elements I wanted to follow, like Chad is still alive, Allison and Dale’s story. So I always wanted to do a sequel, but Hollywood is a slayer of great ideas. But stay alive, fans! Because there’s always a possibility.”

In the 2010 film, affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are mistaken for murderous psychos by a group of vacationing college kids. As the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count.

Craig’s latest film, Clown in a Cornfield, opened in theaters this past weekend to the tune of $3.6 million, giving IFC its biggest opening in history.

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