One of the most hotly anticipated movies on many a horror hounds’ slate is Rob Zombie’s long-awaited follow-up to The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell. Well, Zombie himself has now moved to explain how you’d better not hope to see the film by the time 2018 is over.

Filming on 3 from Hell actually wrapped this past April, but the issue now is that Zombie is heading out on tour shortly – and thus the editing process is having to be put on hold.

As Zombie explained to Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation, “We’re done shooting it. And, basically, the process just stops and waits for me. ‘Cause the film will just basically sit and wait till I get back from tour, which is the end of August, maybe… I don’t remember when the tour ends… beginning of September. And then we’ll start editing, and that’ll take me through the rest of the year.”

The tour in question is The Second Coming along with Marilyn Manson, and that now means that fans of the Firefly clan will have to wait until next year for 3 from Hell to finally be made available.

Zombie would go on to add, “The editing will be five or six months, maybe. But I like it. I have a studio at my house, and we just bring the editors there and set up, and we just sequester ourselves away. It’s actually the same studio we make the records in; we just switch out the gear.”

All being well, 3 from Hell will be released in the first half of 2019, although we guess we’ll have to wait and see.

In terms of plot, all that’s known at this stage is that Sheri Moon Zombie’s Baby, Bill Moseley’s Otis, and Sid Haig’s Captain Spaulding are being brought back from the dead following the explosive finale of The Devil’s Rejects. As well as those three back in the fold, the film will also feature Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, Clint Howard, Richard Brake, David Ury, Daniel Roebuck, Pancho Moler, Kevin Jackson, Sean Whalen, Austin Stoker, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Bill Oberst Jr., Dot-Marie Jones, Tom Papa, and Richard Riehle.

As ever, expect more on 3 from Hell as we get it.