Will We Ever Get a New Leprechaun Movie? Here's Everything We Know

He's mean, he's green, and he's been away from the pop culture scene for over half a decade now. That's right, folks, we're talking about the killerLeprechaun of the cult favoritea href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/leprechaun-horror-movies-streaming-ranked-in-tha-hood-warwick-davis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emLeprechaun/emhorror film franchise/a (most of themoviesa href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/syfy-leprechaun-horror-movie-marathon-tv-schedule-2024" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"are airing onstrongSYFY/strongfor St. Patrick's Day/a)./p pThe most recent entry in the series — 2018'semLeprechaun Returns /em—made its television network debut on strongSYFY/strong(watch it on the app a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/movies/leprechaun-returns" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/movies/leprechaun-returns" href="https://www.syfy.com/movies/leprechaun-returns" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"right here/a)and served as a direct sequel to the 1993 original by handing the torch off to the daughter of Jennifer Anniston's Tory Redding. CelebratedemWillow/em alumnusa data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/warwick-davis" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/warwick-davis" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/warwick-davis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Warwick Davis/a, who playedthe eponymous creature from Irish mythology over six titles, declined a return, which allowed Linden Porco (emCult of Chucky/em) to tackle the iconic character./p p“Horror is an interesting medium. I think it’s different when you havekids;you look at horror in a slightly different way," Davis told emBang Showbiz/emin 2018 (via a data-entity-href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3536177/warwick-davis-isnt-starring-leprechaun-returns-warwick-daviss-words/" data-entity-title="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3536177/warwick-davis-isnt-starring-leprechaun-returns-warwick-daviss-words/" href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3536177/warwick-davis-isnt-starring-leprechaun-returns-warwick-daviss-words/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emBloody Disgusting/em/a). "Since I finished the emLeprechaun /emfilms I had kids and I see the world through their eyes, andto be in a horror movie right now is probably not quite right.”/p pWhile it's true we haven't gotten another chapter in the pot-o'-gold saga in almost six years now, it's not something we need to worry about just yet. The longest stretch betweenemLeprechaun/emmovies still remains the 11-year gap betweenemLeprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood/em(2003) andemLeprechaun: Origins/em (2014). Nevertheless fans continue to wonder: Does the property have a steady supply of four-leaf clovers it can use for more sequels, or has it finally reached a comfortable retirement at the end of the rainbow? Let's take a took./p pstrongFor More onemWarwick Davis/em:/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/warwick-davis-brought-his-son-to-play-the-other-ewok-in-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/warwick-davis-brought-his-son-to-play-the-other-ewok-in-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/warwick-davis-brought-his-son-to-play-the-other-ewok-in-star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Warwick Davis brought his son to play the other Ewok in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/warwick-davis?page=1" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/warwick-davis?page=1" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/warwick-davis?page=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Warning: Warwick Davis in BTS bald Ewok costume may give Star Wars fans the heebie-jeebies/a/strongbrstronga data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-a-solo-set-meeting-led-to-willow-series" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-a-solo-set-meeting-led-to-willow-series" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-a-solo-set-meeting-led-to-willow-series" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"'Willow': How a chance meeting with George Lucas on the set of 'Solo' led to the Disney+ revival/a/strong/p h2Will We Ever Get Lucky and Get a NewemLeprechaun/emMovie?/h2 p/pdiv class="embed-code-other embed-code-youtube"iframe loading="lazy" fetchpriority="low" src="about:blank" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fgalFsxJrms?si=8ZgsFXKm_X5q4dDx" class="optanon-category-13" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 560 / 315;"/iframe/div pFirst off, we need to address the emLeprechaun vs. Candyman/em crossover movie that began to gain some steam in the early 2000s following the success of emFreddy vs. Jason/em. The gonzo crossover never came to fruition because Daniel Robitaille himself, Tony Todd, flat-out refused to be part of it... and probably for good reason./p p"I saw it and I said, 'I will never be involved in something like that.' I respect the character," he explained during an interview with a data-entity-href="https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/288081/interview-tony-todd-sets-the-record-straight-on-unmade-candyman-vs-leprechaun-crossover/" data-entity-title="https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/288081/interview-tony-todd-sets-the-record-straight-on-unmade-candyman-vs-leprechaun-crossover/" href="https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/288081/interview-tony-todd-sets-the-record-straight-on-unmade-candyman-vs-leprechaun-crossover/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emDread Central/em/a in early 2019. "Once a horror character becomes something of an icon [like Candyman], reluctantly or not, you have to treat that with respect. I remember watchingemAbbott and Costello [Meet] Frankenstein/emcontinuously as a kid and being amazed that my horror legends were making a comedy. So, I guess there are some ways to make something like that work, but I wasn’t interested in doing that withemCandyman/em."/p pA year after the release ofemLeprechaun Returns/em, emSaw/em veteranDarren Lynn Bousman tagged Lionsgate in a tweet, writing that he wanted to make aemLeprechaun/emmovie where the villain is sent back in time to the Colorado Gold Rush of the mid-1800s./p p/pdiv class="embed-code-other"blockquote class="twitter-tweet-lazyload"p lang="en" dir="ltr"it's that time of year again where I remind my good friends at a href="https://twitter.com/Lionsgate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@Lionsgate/a that I still want to reboot the Leprechaun movie (AGAIN)... Lep gets in a time machine and goes back to the Colorado Gold Rush. You guys have my number, I'll be sitting by the phone./p— Darren_Bousman (@darren_bousman) a href="https://twitter.com/darren_bousman/status/1107319037539815425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"March 17, 2019/ascript async src="https://www.syfy.com/themes/custom/lifestyle/js/twitter.min.js" charset="utf-8" class="optanon-category-13" type="text/plain"/script/blockquote /div pCatching up a data-entity-href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3665319/demand-warwick-davis-come-back-darren-bousman-leprechaun-movie-hopes-make-exclusive/" data-entity-title="https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3665319/demand-warwick-davis-come-back-darren-bousman-leprechaun-movie-hopes-make-exclusive/" href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3665319/demand-warwick-davis-come-back-darren-bousman-leprechaun-movie-hopes-make-exclusive/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"with emBloody Disgusting/em/a in 2021 to discuss a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/spiral-saw-twist-ending-traps-easter-eggs-director-darren-lynn-bousman" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/spiral-saw-twist-ending-traps-easter-eggs-director-darren-lynn-bousman" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/spiral-saw-twist-ending-traps-easter-eggs-director-darren-lynn-bousman" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emSpiral: From the Book of Saw/em/a, Bousman reiterated his desire to put his mark on the franchise. “I would not reboot it. I don’t want to do that.I would demand that Warwick Davis come back. I wouldn’t do it without him," the director said. "The same way that, like, if there’s anotheriNightmare on Elm Street/i… that’s why I think the Jackie Earle Haley movie doesn’t work as well, because fans love [Robert Englund]. They love Warwick Davis, that’s what they want."/p pHe continued: "I would not try to change the tone. I would make it equally as bats**t, bonkers crazy.It would be between the first film andiBack 2 tha Hood/i. It would be somewhere in that tonal frame. It got really ridiculous as they went on, but that ridiculousness is what made them fun."/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="6e09acdb-1ecd-4fa0-abe8-551d53f79738" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/screenshot_2024-03-08_at_12.47.16_pm.jpg" width="862" height="575" alt="The Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) appears in Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997)." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" The Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) appears in Leprechaun 4: In Space (1997). /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Leprechaun 4: In Space (7/9) Movie CLIP - Flattening Harold (1997) HD/Movieclips YouTube /span /div /div /div /div pThe following year, a data-entity-href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3711350/leprechaun-franchise-lionsgate-plotting-return/" data-entity-title="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3711350/leprechaun-franchise-lionsgate-plotting-return/" href="https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3711350/leprechaun-franchise-lionsgate-plotting-return/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emBloody Disgusting/em brought word/a that Lionsgate was "actively looking" to revive the IP. While celebrating the original movie's 30th anniversary last year a data-entity-href="https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/leprechaun-jennifer-aniston-halloween-waynes-world-box-office-hit/" data-entity-title="https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/leprechaun-jennifer-aniston-halloween-waynes-world-box-office-hit/" href="https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/leprechaun-jennifer-aniston-halloween-waynes-world-box-office-hit/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"with emDen of Geek/em/a, director Mark Jones revealed that he and Davis "have talked on and off about" doing anotheremLeprechaun /emproject. Similar to Bousman, Davis wants to see the character wreaking havoc against the backdrop of the Old West. "I think they should do a TV series where the Leprechaun travels the country looking for his gold," mused Jones./p pThe most promising update came last summer when a data-entity-href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/leprechaun-new-movie-in-the-works-1235510562/" data-entity-title="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/leprechaun-new-movie-in-the-works-1235510562/" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/leprechaun-new-movie-in-the-works-1235510562/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emThe Hollywood Reporter/em/arevealed that a newemLeprechaun/emmovie had entered development at Lionsgate from writerMike Van Waes (Disney's live-action emLilo Stitch/emremake) and directorFelipe Vargas (emMilk Teeth/em).Roy Lee (emIT/em movies, emBarbarian/em) will serve as producer./p p“Thirty years after its debut, this franchise still casts a spell, and we’re thrilled to be bringing it back with a new vision,” Erin Westerman, president of production for Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, said in a statement via emTHR/em. “Roy and Miri are two of our most trusted producers, especially with this genre, and we’re excited by Felipe’s vision for the film as a director. In his hands, this movie should be very scary and a ton of fun.”/p pemstrongSo stay tuned! In the meantime, tune into SYFY this weekend when most of the Leprechaun movies area href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/syfy-leprechaun-horror-movie-marathon-tv-schedule-2024" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"airing on SYFY for St. Patrick's Day/a!/strong/em/p