For years now, we’ve constantly been hearing about a third Gremlins movie finally happening. And while Chris Columbus has regularly discussed just how close a Gremlins 3 is to making it to screens, all’s been a tad unclear as to whether this would be a straight-up sequel or potentially a rebooting of the franchise. Well now, Columbus has moved to give a little clarification on that matter.

Speaking to Metro UK, the Gremlins creator and writer of both films to date explained, “We are actively talking about [a new Gremlins movie]. So that’s what I am working on with my production company, 1942 Pictures. It will almost definitely be a reboot.”

While that does indeed offer a little bit of clarification on what to expect from this third movie should it indeed happen, the “reboot” term is one that can be applied to a completely fresh start and do-over of the series or it could just as easily be used to mean just relaunching the franchise with a third film that could still end up continuing the narrative seen in the previous two films.

So yeah, we kind of have a smidge more details but still not all that much.

The last we’d heard on Gremlins 3 was that any further film could well actually decide to kill off Gizmo. That all remains to be seen, as does whether said threequel ever gets made.

As ever, expect more on a third Gremlins movie as any significant developments are made.