Suit-up superheroes, Robert Rodriguez is coming back with a new project for Netflix and he just teased the return of two millennial-favorite, pint-sized heroes all grown up! During the Collider: Directors On Directing panel for Comic-Con@Home, the esteemed Sin City filmmaker shared that he has a new project in the works at Netflix, and that Sharkboy and Lavagirl of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D are in it! “We have a huge cast,” he said of his upcoming film We Can Be Heroes. “Even Sharkboy and Lavagirl even show up as superhero parents who now have a daughter who’s got shark and lava powers. And she’s, like, six.”
Say what?! Fans of the 2005 film, which starred Taylor Lautner and Taylor Dooley, immediately took to Twitter in the hopes that the surprise announcement meant that Lautner would be reprising his role as Sharkboy! “STAHP! Please say Taylor Lautner is also reprising his iconic role,” one fan emphatically wrote on Twitter. Another chimed in to blatantly say, “Taylor Lautner better be playing Sharkboy (Sharkman?) or this movie means nothing.”
Clearly, fans have a lot of questions about the movie. The flick, which stars Pedro Pascal and Priyanka Chopra, also features a group of young actors playing the children of superheroes who all possess similar powers as their parents. Robert Rodriguez, who has also helmed beloved films such as the Spy Kids movies, was so thrilled when Netflix approached him to make the movie. “Kids couldn’t drive themselves to the theater,” the director said of the film world when Spy Kids came out. “But [with] Netflix, they can sit there and…click it as may times as [they] want.”