![]() ![]() Then again, Disney owns the rights to hundreds of characters that would be excellent in a scrap. Could it happen? It’s hard to identify who actually owns the screen rights to Children of the Corn, but surely Disney (which owns Prey’s production company 20th Century Studios) would be in a financial position to bring this to multiplexes? Do they stuff his tusks with wheat? Could this be like a horror take on Home Alone, except with … you know … extra aliens? Perhaps the evil kiddies get particularly upset at the prospect of a creature walking among them that is centuries older than the 18 or so years marked out as the maximum age for Gatlin’s inhabitants. Maybe the alien comes down to Earth in search of “He Who Walks Behind the Rows”, the horrible green demon worshipped by the juvenile citizens of Gatlin in King’s novel, and finds he has bitten off more than he can chew. Is King joking? Who cares! It’s another sideways option that would keep the Predator franchise searingly alive. Top of the pile is Stephen King’s idea that the extra-terrestrial hunter take on the Children of the Corn, the murderous kids who featured in his 1977 short story (and subsequent torrent of inexplicably bad movies). ![]() The premise is much more intriguing than the execrable Alien vs Predator movies, and of course the Twittersphere has gone into a predictable loop-the-loop with suggestions for future episodes.
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