While PIRANHA 3D was a missed opportunity for me personally, I can’t help but get excited for the upcoming sequel. With a fresh creative team behind it – director John Gulager and writers Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton, they of the underrated FEAST franchise – PIRANHA 3DD has every chance of delivering on the promise of last. Plus it’s set at a Waterpark, which as a big fan of JAWS 3 pleases me no end!

To tide us over until the trailer hits (soon we’re promised), the producers have issued these first behind the scenes images from the set. Enjoy!

From left to right: Director John Gulager, Piranha, wife. Yes, wife.

Big dock-off fish.

The crew busily set up the scene that will ensure PIRANHA 3DD’s presence at the 2013 Academy Awards.

Yeah, so not the most revelatory pics sure, but at least we now know we’re guaranteed a scene where a Piranha chases a lady down a water slide, right! Right?

PIRANHA 3D survivors Christopher Lloyd & Ving Rhames join 30 ROCK’s Katrina Bowden, FRIDAY THE 13TH’s Danielle Panabaker, KABOOM’s Chris Zylka, FINAL DESTINATION 5’s David Koechner, nutjob Gary Busey, David Hasselhoff as himself (called it), and a whole host of bikini-clad extras for a Noverember 23rd worldwide release.

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