Don Coscarelli has been trying to get a follow-up to Bubba Ho-Tep off the ground for many years now, but one of the major hangups is that star Bruce Campbell just isn’t interested in reprising his role of Elvis/Sebastian Haff. Without Campbell’s involvement, it would seem such a project doesn’t have any legs to stand on, but Coscarelli still isn’t giving up hope.
In a chat with Syfy to promote his new memoir True Indie: Life and Death in Filmmaking (released today), Coscarelli floated the idea of a Bubba Ho-Tep TV series.
“There’s nothing that I can really report today,” Coscarelli told the site. “Bubba Ho-Tep, as detailed in the book, we had a lot of setbacks with regard to a lack of involvement with Bruce Campbell on the thing. He gave such a memorable performance, it was very hard to do something without him involved. Again, I think that that story would make for a great sequel or series. Same with John Dies at the End. You know, things that seem apparent to you and I, sometimes the powers-that-be in Hollywood just don’t get it.”
Coscarelli also touched upon the future of the Phantasm franchise in the same chat…
“I certainly think that more could be done with Phantasm if they can find the right situation for it,” he noted. “I backed off from being too involved creatively, because I’ve done so much in that world.”
For now, nothing seems to be happening on either front.
