Somehow, ‘Sharknado’ Will Return With an Origin Movie

Nothing is truly dead and gone these days, and that now includes Sharknado. Of all things, Syfy’s horror-disaster series is making a comeback with, you guessed it, an origin story.

Dubbed Sharknado Origins, because of course, the seventh entry is coming courtesy of B-horror studio the Asylum. Per Variety, this new film will begin production later in 2025 with Anthony Ferrante at the helm, who previously directed the first six movies. As far as casting goes, that’ll be revealed “soon,” and the two leads will play young versions of Fin and April, the main couple played by Ian Ziering and Tara Reid in the originals.

As the film opens, the two have just met for the first time and enter the throes of summer love. But before he can offer a promise ring to affirm their relationship, what happens in a Sharknado movie happens here: cyclones bring the aquatic carnivores out of the ocean and toward the people on the beach and around town, presumably leading to a whole bunch of murders. So Fin’ll have to do what he started doing (technically) in 2013: kick ass, kill sharks, and get the girl.

The original Sharknado was a hit that Syfy turned into a whole franchise, complete with three spinoffs. (That would be Lavalantula, its sequel 2 Lava 2 Lantula, and 2025 Armageddon, the latter of which ironically released in 2022.) At the moment, it’s unclear if Sharknado Origins will find its way to Syfy like its predecessors or somewhere new, but the Asylum hopes to have it out sometime in summer 2026.

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