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LATEST HEADLINES YESTERDAY Sophie Turner Finds Mary Shelley's Monster Another Franken-focused drama Shannyn Sossamon Set For Sinister Sequel James Ransone to return from the first film Latest Texas Chainsaw Film Is Now Leatherface Seth M. Sherwood will work on the prequel Revenge collections etc Of The Green Dragons Trailer Is Online The Infernal Affairs team brings crime to New York Sony Is Tweaking The Interview Seth Rogen's new comedy will be altered to remove some elements Dark Signal Starts Broadcasting A new horror presented by Neil Marshall Lauren collections etc Bacall 1924-2014 Screen legend dies aged 89 What If Premieres In London Daniel Radcliffe and company hit the town. Tom Hiddleston Wanted For Ben-Hur He could be part of the new toga party Warner Bros. Developing Two Aquaman Scripts Will Beall and Kurt Johnstad are hard at work Jack Huston On For Pride And Prejudice And Zombies He'll be Wickham in the Jane Austen horror tweak Avatar Writer Targets Mack Bolan Shane Salerno takes a shot at another franchise Gal Gadot Joins Costner's collections etc Criminal Wonder Woman to play Mrs Ryan Reynolds Jackie Chan Empire Podcast Special 40 minutes with the living legend More Movie News RELATED NEWS 28 May 2013 Zach Lipovsky Directing Leprechaun Reboot He'll tackle the creature feature More Movie News RELATED REVIEWS Jack The Giant Slayer (2013) The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Leprachaun (1993) Willow (1988) More new cinemas releases DVD & Blu-ray releases Comic-Con: First Poster For Leprechaun Prequel Leprechaun: Origins goes back to the old country 25 July 2014  |  Written by Owen Williams  |  Source: Variety Tweet
Back in 2012, Lionsgate made the surprise announcement that, as part of its beautiful new friendship with WWE Studios, it was developing a reboot of the mind-boggling Leprechaun franchise. VFX veteran Zach Lipovsky was placed in the director's chair a year later, and this being a WWE project it transpired that it was all being set up as a vehicle for diminutive wrestler Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl. And now, from the halls of Comic-Con, comes the first promo image for Leprechaun: Origins , showcasing a shadowed Lep in profile in a leafy graveyard. He doesn't look very much like Warwick Davis anymore...
If collections etc you're new here, the original Leprechaun came out in 1993, starring Davis as the titular murderous imp (mad as hell about being swizzed out of his Lucky Charms gold), and providing a pre-Friends starring role for Jennifer Aniston. It was released by Trimark, which Lionsgate swallowed in 2000.
It spawned an amazing five sequels collections etc in Leprechaun s 2 and 3 , Leprechaun 4: In Space , Leprechaun In The Hood , and Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood . Franchise highlights include the wee man becoming a rap mogul in the Hood instalments; wielding collections etc a shillelagh light saber in the sci-fi one; and jumping on a guy with a pogo stick, while singing, "This old Lep, he played one, he played collections etc pogo on his lung."
"We've been looking for ways to continue collections etc our relationship with Lionsgate", explained WWE honcho Michael Luisi, "and we saw Leprechaun collections etc as the perfect opportunity to take a well-known franchise and put a modern-day spin on it. This is a property we believe our audience will respond collections etc to, and we continue to look for ways to surprise and engage them."
We're certainly surprised. Our level of engagement remains to be seen. Leprechaun: Origins was shot and completed in the second half of last year, and involves a young couple b

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