According to Comicbook, the director of Killer Klowns from Outer Space has recently stated how they would like to revive the development of the mini-series. Stephen Chiodo (Adventures in Wonderland) has claimed that he is interested in making the film franchise’s next step to be a series. With a series the lore of the franchise could dive more into the horror and comedy of the galactic clowns.
Chiodo shared with SFX Magazine through ComingSoon, “My goal is to do an eight-part miniseries for streamers. We’ve got a great concept that continues the story of our main characters. We’ll follow a new group of teenagers who come upon the clowns and meet a drunk living in his van — it’s Mike Tobacco. There’s a big invasion, and we end up on the clown planet. We have lots of great ideas about where this universe goes. You haven’t even seen the clown animals on the clown planet yet. There’s a whole world of things that we have in mind!”
Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a 1988 sci-fi horror comedy film that follows a small town where a comet lands. When the comet is discovered it is seen that many murderous alien circus clowns start to appear. The clowns start to attack the towns residents in a horrific but comedic way and start to harvest the inhabitants and eat them.
According to Comicbook, Chiodo shared the concept of televised film back in 2021. At the time Chiodo shared with the Slasher Radio podcast, “There was a deal… MGM controls the rights… and they went to SYFY. They did Critters, and you saw what that turned out to be like. But they wanted to do Klowns for like two million dollars. And we don’t want to do that… we did it for two million back in the ’80s. So we didn’t want to do it. And even MGM didn’t want to do it… they said it was a more valuable property than just signing off for that little money.”
Hopefully, there will be more updates on a possible mini-series for the franchise. The film Killer Klowns from Outer Space can be streamed on Prime Video.