Directed by Steven Kostanski
(The Void),
Leprechaun Returns will premiere March 2019 on Syfy with a script penned by Suzanne Keilly
(Ash vs Evil Dead). Taylor Spreitler
(Kevin Can Wait) leads the cast, and the film will co-star Pepi Sonuga, Sai Bennett, and Linden Porco as the titular leprechaun. (He’ll replace Warwick Davis, who originated the role.) Mark Holton, a co-star in the original film, will return to the series to play Ozzie, the lovable nerd who was almost felled by the green menace in the franchise’s first installment.
According to
Syfy Wire, the film takes place 25 years after the gruesome events of the 1993 film, in which the evil green elf left a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake as he searched for his pot of gold. Whereas the ’93 film found him terrorizing a certain Tory Redding (portrayed by Jennifer Aniston, in a role she’d likely prefer to forget),
Leprechaun Returns will follow the green goblin as he menaces a group of hapless sorority girls, who accidentally awaken the little monster as they noisily construct a brand-new sorority house.
