Sharknado 4?
Oh, hell yes!
The success of Wednesday's premier of Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! prompted the Syfy Network and Sharknado's production company to give the green light to Sharknado 4 in July 2016.
Where will sharks fall this time? Sharknado 3 laid waste to the lower East Coast. Sharknado 2 ravaged New York. The original Sharknado didn't exactly destroy Los Angeles, but it didn't help traffic.
Sharknado 4 might take place in space. The ending of Sharknado 3 was space themed. And Syfy program strategist Chris Regina hinted as much in a news release Thursday.
"Sharknado 3 may have devoured half of America's celebrities, but there are still hungry fans and sharks to feed, so the adventure continues - not in a galaxy far, far away, but on your television sets next July," Regina said.
In a recent Q&A, Cassie Scerbo, who played the swashbuckling Nova Clarke, also hinted at sharks in space: "I can say that NASA is involved, and you can imagine where that's headed. Maybe headed to space."
Director Anthony C. Ferrante told Variety that he wanted to go international with the next installment. "There are still U.S. cities that I want to destroy," he told Variety. "But it's less about the cities, and it's more about, what are we going to do with Ian and Tara, and what genres do we want to play with?"
New York-based Syfy was very proud of its second sequel in the same release. It announced that Sharknado 3 generated 2 billion Twitter impressions - doubling the amount of the sequel. An impression is the "times a user is served a Tweet in timeline or search results."
Syfy also put social media in the mix on whether one of its characters returns. April Wexler (Tara Reid) appeared to meet her end at the conclusion of Sharknado 3. Syfy asked fans whether April should live or die and to vote via hashtag at #AprilLives or #AprilDies. You can also cast a vote at Sharknado.Syfy.com. So far, Syfy has generated nearly 40,000 tweets on April's fate since the conclusion of Wednesday's show.
Other social-media performance highlights for Sharknado 3:
• Trended throughout July 22 on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
• Most social program on television in Twitter activity on July 22
• Video clips have generated nearly 6 million views to date, including 4.1 million on Syfy's YouTube channel.
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner who played the U.S. president, is eager to contribute to Sharknado 4, saying "I would love to," this week. In the show, after he'd mixed it up with sharks bombarding the White House, he was on the sideline for the second half, at one point tweeting:
