Jeepers Creepers 3 is currently in post-production but the film, targeting a Labor Day Weekend release, is much different than what was originally imagined. An early synopsis suggested the 3rd Chapter in the wildly successful franchise launched in 2001 would feature Gina Philips reprising her role as Trish to battle The Creeper (Jonathan Breck) during his next feeding cycle (in other words, 23 years after the events of the first Jeepers Creepers). This is not what was filmed.
While Philips will appear in Jeepers Creepers 3, her role is being described as a cameo. Fans disappointed that she won’t be the star may find solace in the fact that writer/director Victor Salva has written extensively on what Trish has been up to over the past 15 years, and what the future hold for her—we’ll just have to wait for the next sequel to see it.
[For a summary of Salva’s criminal past and why many horror fans are choosing to boycott Jeepers Creepers 3, follow the link at the bottom of the article.]
Philips recently gave an extensive interview with Diabolique Magazine where she discussed Trish’s role in Jeepers Creepers 3, and what the future holds for her.
Per DiaboliqueMagazine.com:
“The director, Victor… I don’t know how much I’m supposed to say… [Gina pauses again to choose her words correctly]… what happens in-between films had already been written. He gave me that to read. He made it very easy. I read it once and said, ‘Great, I’ve got it, I’ve got no more work to do’. Between my own personal experience, how much the character is in me and what he gave me…”
So is she saying that Salva gave her information about what happened to Trish in-between the first and third movies?”
“No, the plan is for this stuff to go to screen in the next Jeepers Creepers movie,” clarifies Philips. “Victor has written what happens from the second after the conclusion of Jeepers Creepers 3. I think that’s all I’m allowed to say about it but he wrote in such detail and he had a lot of flashbacks to what happened over the years that it made it very easy for me. I got to see what will eventually happen to the character and he put enough flashbacks in there that I got to see what happened to her over the last 15 years. Let’s just say, there’s more to come.”
I highly recommend reading the interview in its entirety, HERE.
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Here’s what we know about Jeepers Creepers 3 at this point:
Official Synopsis: Taking place on the last day of the Creeper’s twenty-three-day feeding frenzy, as the skeptical Sargent Tubbs teams up with a task force hellbent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins.
The film features Meg Foster and Jonathan Breck.
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OMG I can not wait to see Jeepers Creepers 4. I hope at least we get to hear the song again in this one. And sooooo happy to know Gina Phillips will be playing Trisha again. She was excellent. Bring on JEEPERS CREEPERS 4.
Love the jeepers creepers movies seen number 3 was a great film shame they didnt kill him off role on number 4
Jeepers Creepers 3 could be better in my opinion but it was okay. It just lacked detail. It never showed what the characters saw when the hand grabbed them, it didn’t really give any information on the backstory, and it never even played its signature song. Yes, ill admit neither did the second one but it had a good story line to it, i found myself confused watching the third one. I wish the third one would have told about what had happened to jackie and jack sr. Although I did like Gina Phillips cameo. AKA Trish
It would be nice to know who and what the Creeper is. I thought it would be explained more in the 3rd movie. Hopefully the next movie does.
i cant wait too see the four one if day come out with it. if so im sure it will be pretty cool just like the first flim im hopeing if were lucky may be day will put Justin long in it he was pretty cool in the first one im sure if day can put gina Phillips in it day can put him and the four jeepers creepers movie but i guess we will see hope so any way 😀
Day 1 and night & early morning day 2 with Trish being told her parents are there at the station. But I didn’t see them as she looked up to the sky. That’s Movie one, ending as day 2 begins.
Now Movie 2 = same day 2 morning. Yes, because the radio on the school bus mentions the old abandoned church being burnt down the night before.
So Movie 3 would have been fine, ecxept the football cheerleader bus left out the morning of day 3. This movie began at the end of day 1 with Trish waiting inside after Derry got snatched that night. That morning is day 2. All of that day was about the horse, the hay, the boys being attacked on the bike, with the bodies of the victims from the day one night before. Then it becomes night again at the end of Day 2, one night later since the church burnt down wit Creeper’s evidence and Derry got killed. So the next morning, Day 3 since the morning Derry & Trish started on the road, NOW THE SCHOOL BUS picks up the teenager for the all state high school football game that day. So they play the game and are on the way back home that afternoon when they hear that the Church burnt down last night. BLOOPER. Since according to Movie 3, the game was 2 days later, the church wasn’t burnt down last night, but the night before, on Trish & Derry’s Day 1, that evening. Movie 1 was already made with Movie 2 being the next morning. Movie 3 added an extra Twilight Zone Day. But I did really like the movie.
The man with the mega revolving machine gun mentioned 23 years earlier that the Creeper ripped his heart out in front of him when he was 10. His dad might be brother to Ray Wise’s character, who has a similar weapon, but mega harpoon. Plus this man and Ray Wise’s eldest son look similar, cousins. In Movie 2 Creeper got Ray’s youngest boy, and by movie 3 he must know offscreen Creeper got his nephew too. 3 family members. No wonder he’s so mad at getting Creeper dead.
He was talking about his dad. Jeepers creepers killed his dad 23 years ago. He was referring to his father!
Ripped the heart out of his dad when he was 10, I meant to say. Well Movie 4 is the 24 years later? You’d think those teenagers and young adults would’ve studied science, anthropology, engineering, demonology, whatever to prepare with 24 year from now with super modern technology to get this thing, super drones to take it down in midflight, built levels underground in that farmland, once trapped, study it, learn, etc, find out about it before his alien companions finally locate him after these thousand years, and come for him. And what if they sleep in shifts of every 23 years so that some of them are always awake and eating?
Make creeper like the first one
Ok, I’ve watched all the Jeepers creepers movies. When the second one started the school kids on the bus acted as if they didn’t know what that thing was. Part 3 ends as one of the kids getting on the bus. You think the boy that got on the bus at the end of part 3 would of knew what it was. Ok instead of Minnie having past out and dreamed it. But instead the kids on the bus are clueless of what’s going on and what Jeepers creepers is.. that was a thought!! But besides that fact. All 3 were great movies! And I’m excited to see #Jeeperscreepers4! 🖤
Sorry I met Mixie, not for sure how to spell her name!