'Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai': Trailer, Cast & Everything We Know So Far

It’s been years since Warner Media greenlit an animated series to serve as a prequel to the 1984 movie Gremlins and its 1990 sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, both of which were written by Chris Columbus (The Christmas Chronicles 2). The concept of “gremlins” originated during WWII, when members of the RAF blamed airplane failures on “tiny creatures” that love to break the machinery. Columbus took threads of this folklore when he wrote the screenplay for Gremlins, additionally claiming to have gotten inspiration from listening to a mouse infestation in his attic at the time.