The Leprechaun series is now on Hulu—so io9 talked to creator Mark Jones about the 1993 original starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, and more.
series is now on Hulu—so io9 talked to creator Mark Jones about the 1993 original starring Warwick Davis and Jennifer Aniston, and more.—and io9 was excited to chat with Mark Jones, who wrote and directed the first film and created a horror phenomenon in the process.Cheryl Eddy, io9: If you read anything about the 1993 film, you’ll find stories about how it underwent some tonal shifts as it was coming together, from straight horror to comedy to some gore enhancements.
io9: You wrote and directed the first film and produced the sequel, but what was your involvement in the rest of the series?Happily, just financial and credit. But I enjoyed where they were going; Warwick knew his character. We bump into number seven,, and I thought that was complete—they didn’t use Warwick. It was a total shift. They wanted to, I guess, do a straight horror and I don’t think it worked as well. [But then] number eight,, was basically a sequel to my first one.
io9: What did you think of the direction the franchise took, with the Leprechaun going to space and going to the “hood” ? Do you have a favorite among the sequels?. I thought they had fun with it and Warwick kept the comedy alive. I thought number three in Vegas was kind of interesting. Four,, was a little bit over the top. But some people love that. You know, it’s funny, there are people who [say] number four is their favorite, [or] it’s their least favorite.
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