
The following day (Day 23), a school bus carrying a high school basketball team and cheerleaders back from the state championships suffers a blowout. (Luke Edwards), rush to his aid the scarecrow drags Billy through the field before sprouting wings and flying off into the sky, as Jack Sr. (Ray Wise), and his older brother, Jack Taggart Jr. When one of the scarecrows suddenly moves, he notices the talons on its feet, and runs back towards the farm, yelling for help, only for the scarecrow to leap into the air and pounce on him. It goes to show the amount of quality that was taken into account not just with the production, but for the safety of all those involved.3 days after the events of the first film, Billy Taggart (Shaun Fleming) assists his father in erecting scarecrows throughout the corn field. It’s an interesting bit of insight to the new film, and the video is accompanied with all sorts of exciting behind the scenes glimpses. And I’ve got very, very good quality with this amazing, amazing team.” So I think that’s the most important achievement of the production of this film. There was no COVID infections during the production and everybody got tested, everybody was safe, and everybody walked home healthy. I think we were pretty damn good with it. You realize how complicated and complex a filmmaking process is. “And I know that the producers especially must have just been scratching their head.

Nevertheless, he insists that it ultimately worked out and that there weren’t any COVID infections during the production. He also explained that the stress of the precautions must have also impacted the producers as well. How is this gonna’ happen in any way? Like how do you make it safe? How do you make it something that’s comfortable to work with?'” And I was like, ‘I don’t know how we’re gonna’ do this. I realized that ‘Oh my God, I’m totally stranded from my family and sort of my home and everything that I have over there in a way that I’ve never been before.’ Adding to that, the whole COVID thing… It’s just… It was just very scary in the beginning. That hit me actually quite hard at one point. I can’t see my family, I can’t bring them over, I can’t fly back home. But working abroad in corporate times is way different because the travel restrictions. I work a lot abroad and that’s not sort of different for me. “Well, I’m from Finland, so I live in Finland and that’s my home country. As he himself explained, it wasn’t always easy: Of course, this meant an extensive level of social distancing.

The filmmakers involved seemed to have realized this, as they’ve now released a new video explaining how Jeepers Creepers: Reborn was shot during the pandemic.Īs you can see for yourself below, director Timo Vuorensola went to great lengths to insure that the film had a safe production for everyone involved.

When you consider how difficult that task must have been, it’s truly exciting to see that Jeepers Creepers: Reborn somehow managed to beat the odds against it. What was also surprising, however, is that by the announcement Jeepers Creepers: Reborn actually already wrapped shooting – and that it had been filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fans were surprised when a new Jeepers Creepers sequel was announced, and even more so when it was revealed to be the first of an entire trilogy of films.
