Somebody feed Steven Spielberg after midnight.

Zach Galligan, who starred as Billy Peltzer in Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) explained to attendees of Comic Con Manchester that Warner Bros., the studio that released the first two movies, is now ready for a third sequel some 35 years after the last film in the franchise. But there’s a catch.

“After 35 years, they’ve come up with a script. Warner Bros. is incredibly interested in doing it, apparently, it’s waiting on Mr. Spielberg to read it and approve it,” Galligan said at his panel.

Spielberg is one of the heads of Amblin Entertainment, the production company that made Gremlins. Galligan said that Chris Columbus has penned the screenplay. That possibility was announced back in January, at the same time as news came out of Columbus writing a sequel to The Goonies.

Columbus wrote the script for Gremlins, but not its sequel. As far back as 2017 he indicated that he wanted the third movie to be a dark comedy.

The original movie was about Billy Peltzer, a teen who receives an unusual pet called a Mogwai from his father who found it on his travels in Asia. The creature, whom he names Gizmo, comes with a list of rules for his care that once broken, because of course they are, results in a horde of nasty little monsters that wreak havoc on Billy’s family and the surrounding town.

In the sequel, the gremlins expand their horizons to cause havoc in the big Apple. Director Joe Dante along with Columbus created several new gremlins with distinct…personalities for the sequel to his first successful outing.

Warner has been interested in the Gremlins universe for some time. They commissioned an animated series called Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai for HBO Max. That ran for two seasons beginning in 2023. A second season, subtitled The Wild Batch, aired in 2024.

Dante has expressed disinterest in directing a third film in the series. Since this project is still in the planning stages, there’s no way to tell when it might go into production.