Piranha 3d Part 2 ((top))

Director John Gulager ( Feast ) was attached to helm, and filming was actually scheduled for late 2011. However, the Weinsteins kept cutting the budget, demanding more gore for less money, and famously rejected the script five times. By 2012, the project entered “development hell.” Then, in 2017, the Harvey Weinstein scandal erupted, and The Weinstein Company filed for bankruptcy. Among the thousands of assets liquidated, Piranha 3DD (or Part 2 ) was permanently declared dead.

But in the final, glorious minute of Piranha 3D , a huge, mutated —a leftover from the prehistoric school—launches itself out of the water, swallowing the film’s sleazy producer, Derrick Jones (O’Connell), whole. As it crashes onto a packed party boat, the screen cuts to black as thousands more tiny piranha begin to swarm the remaining Spring Breakers. piranha 3d part 2

Set one year after the original massacre, the sequel follows Maddy (played by Danielle Panabaker Director John Gulager ( Feast ) was attached