Losing reality show contestant wins Leprechaun reboot, so there
Six years after becoming a semifinalist on Steven Spielberg’s short-lived filmmaking competition show On The Lot, Zach Lipovsky will at last see all his youthful dreams and ambitions fulfilled by directing Lionsgate’s reboot of Leprechaun—the pot of gold at the end of his very own rainbow, guarded by a nasty leprechaun who occasionally raps. As we reported last year, the new Leprechaun is a co-production of WWE Films, which devised the reboot after realizing it had a little-person wrestler who sometimes dressed up as a leprechaun in Hornswoggle, and also that studio executives will say yes to anything, if it means they don’t have to go to the trouble of nurturing an original idea.