Scrimm is up to play the Tall Man again
It’s the 30th anniversary of Phantasm, Don Coscarelli’s ’79 film featuring the Tall Man, silver spheres, a gun-toting ice cream man and evil imps. To celebrate, the L.A. Times sat down with Coscarelli, Angus Scrimm and Reggie Bannister for a retrospective interview and, naturally, remake and sequel talk came up.
Of a possible remake, Coscarelli comments, “I get a phone call every week, it seems, from somebody who wants to do it. It’s something I’ve been resisting for a while. I do think that, given the proper context, it would really be exciting to see what a younger filmmaker could bring to that story. It’s something I’m open to but I guess Iâm seeking the right circumstances. Takashi Miike doing Phantasm, how would that be? Anything that would ever be done would have to be done with sensitivity to the appreciation that the fans have for it. They just worship Angus as the Tall Man and Reggie as the loyal trusted friend.”
On the subject of another sequel, “It’s something we’ve talked about through the years but the timing hasn’t worked out or getting the finances exactly right,” he says. “I’ve been cooking up a couple of incarnations of things that I canât talk about now but hopefully in the near future we could get something in the Phantasm world happening.”
Scrimm adds he would jump at the chance to reprise his role as the Tall Man.
Source: L.A. Times
