Why Anaconda’s director made a reboot: ‘There was no room for fun anymore’

The original Anaconda is one of the greatest so-bad-it’s-good horror movies of all time. The plot is illogical, the CGI snake is cartoonish, the cast is full of future A-listers (Jennifer Lopez! Owen Wilson! Ice Cube!) who clearly regretted their decision, and it’s all anchored by Jon Voight doing the worst South American accent of all time (he won Worst Fake Accent at the Stinker Awards the year it came out). This was 1997, however, and Hollywood was a very different place, so Anaconda still managed to make over $136 million at the box office and spawned four sequels.