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Super Gator is Dinocroc 2 is Carnosaur 6
By John Marrone
Aug 2, 2006, 18:13

Roger Corman indicated some time back that he'd like to keep producing b-horror films and that he had some ideas in the works with the SciFi channel.  Put those two things together and you have Corman's recently completed Super Gator - which will premeire on the cable channel sometime in the near future.  At the recent San Diego Comic-Con, Corman remarked on the Carnosaur franchise and how Carnosaur 5 was never going to be made - until scientists actually found the fossil of a giant prehistoric crocodile.  Dropping the Carnosaur name, he named it Dinocroc.  Now comes the sequel, and instead of calling it Dinocroc 2 - Corman is going with Super Gator.  No air date has been set - but Super Gator will star Brad Johnson and Kelly McGillis.  Here's the full story as it was printed thru SciFi wire...

Legendary B-movie producer and writer Roger Corman told SCI FI Wire that he has several films in production and isn't retiring, despite more than 50 years of churning out a prolific number of horror and monster flicks, and just finished an upcoming SCI FI Channel original picture. "I just finished a film called Super Gator," Corman said in an interview promoting his latest projects at Comic-Con International in San Diego last week. "It has a strange origin. Going all the way back, just before Jurassic Park, I brought out a picture called Carnosaur, which was a somewhat similar story, but it was from a novel actually written before Jurassic Park. What happened was that we went up through Carnosaur 4: Raptor. It pretty much works that you make the first film, and your profit is highest, and at the last one, the profit is equal to the expense to make it. So by Carnosaur 4: Raptor, I said we had a great run, ... and we will never make Carnosaur 5. About two years ago, I saw an article in the L.A. Times about scientists finding the fossil of a prehistoric crocodile twice as big as today's crocodile, and I thought, 'We're back in business!'"

The movie became Dinocroc, which ran on SCI FI Channel and earned big ratings. "I was talking to them there and said, 'I assume that you want another similar picture?'" Corman recalled. "They said yes. So I said, 'OK, we will make Dinocroc 2.' And they said they find that when they call something 2, they don't get the ratings. So they make pictures that are similar, but not the same. So I said, 'Did I say Dinocroc 2? I meant Super Gator.'"

Super Gator stars Brad Johnson (Flight of the Intruder) and Kelly McGillis (Top Gun). No air date has been set yet. 

Keep it here - we'll let you know as soon as one is announced.