Is "Tremors" based on a book? Tremors is based on an original screenplay developed by American screenwriters S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, and Ron Underwood (who also directed the movie).
Cowriter S.S. Wilson got the idea for Tremors while working in the California desert for the U.S. Navy. While taking a break on a large rock, Wilson imagined what it would be like if an underground predator forced him to remain there indefinitely. Frank Herbert's Dune has also been cited as an inspiration for Tremors.
The worm is commonly cited as the inspiration for the Graboids, the monstrous villains designed for the Tremors film franchise. Official Dungeons and Dragons material features a creature called the Purple Worm, which similarly burrows underground and uses a potent poison to kill its prey.
Dune, the sci-fi Frank Herbert novel first published in 1965 has inspired several films over the years including expansive franchises like 'Star Wars', 'Mad Max' and even the monster thrillers like 'Alien' and 'Tremors'.
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Finally, Graboids are much smaller than Shai-Hulud, only growing up to about 10 meters in length. The Graboids in Tremors, as well as Star Wars's space slugs and Beetlejuice's sandworms, all carry similarities to the gargantuan sandworms featured in Frank Herbert's Dune and its film adaptations.
While the series spawned seven sequels, the most recent of which was released in 2020, Bacon never returned to the Tremors franchise following the first film, however, the actor seems keen on revisiting the beloved monster movie series.
Kevin Bacon is, once again, waiting to take part in a new Tremors sequel. His love for the 1990 film is pretty well-documented. Not only is it the only movie of his that he's watched since it premiered, but he also admitted to still wanting to star in a sequel in a 2021 Esquire profile.
And that successful cast is due in large part to the hilarious performance by Kevin Bacon. Some may say he was a star before this movie, but we're gonna say Tremors is what made Bacon a star. But it's the great chemistry between Ward, Bacon and the rest of the crew that makes it such a fun watch.
Thanks to the clout for the film, Universal thought about doing a sequel, and they've already reached out to Bacon on doing another Tremors film. Unfortunately, the production company wanted to make a straight to DVD film so Kevin Bacon ultimately declined the offer.
The Tremors franchise consists of a series of American monster comedy-horror films and a spin-off television show, with a plot centered around attacks from subterranean worm-like creatures known as Graboids.
“When I did the dance movie, I was not a dancer. I wasn't trained as a dancer,” he said. “If I'm being honest, I didn't even really understand that it was a dance movie.
Instead, Tremors 2 mentions in passing that Val got married, left Perfection, and never looked back. In Bacon's defense, it could've been a scheduling conflict, as he was filming the Ron Howard astronaut drama Apollo 13 around the time Tremors 2 was in production.
While only a modest hit at the box office, Tremors went on to become a massive hit on home video purchases, rentals and television, becoming one of the most rented films of 1990. Because of this, it has gained a very large cult following over the years.
Kevin Bacon's wealth comes from decades of work in the filmmaking business. He has starred in multiple commercially successful film projects such as Footloose and Apollo 13 among others. As a result, his net worth is considered to be approximately $45 million according to celebritynetworth.com.
Bacon has already attempted to return to Tremors, having filmed a pilot for a planned series that ultimately wasn't picked up. Though that series didn't happen, the actor still wants more Tremors. Unfortunately, Ward passed away in 2022, and with Burt deceased in the films, the future of Tremors may rely on Bacon.
Kevin Bacon and Reba McEntire were both written into the script and expected to return as their characters from the first movie. Reba would decline due to a massive tour she was currently on at the time, and while Bacon showed interest, he ultimately turned it down to film Apollo 13.
The Graboids' are actually blind and hunt instead with sound/vibration, which is a strength that hunters like Burt Gummer have managed to turn into a weakness.
Tremors, first and foremost, is a franchise centering on giant subterranean worms known as graboids, but over the course of the series, the creatures have grown and changed with different forms added as a part of their extended life and breeding cycle.
Angry, she storms out onto the roof, where she meets Beetlejuice, a demon who dreams about getting rid of the curse that makes him invisible to the living world. Beetlejuice realizes that the girl can see him and is a perfect candidate for breaking the curse.
Like these dragons, the sandworms of Arrakis will attack anyone who attempts to take the treasure that is spice from the desert sands, as if they were guarding it. (The sandworms actually do not care for the spice as it is waste matter, they're just very territorial.)
Instead, the worms feed on microscopic sand plankton that exist throughout the desert planet. The plankton feed on traces of melange in the sand which can create the illusion that sandworms are drawn to the spice, but they are actually only interested in the plankton.
