Sharknado 4 Warning

This shark has legs! Syfy announced Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens will premiere July 31.

Sharknado 4 will take place five years after the East Coast was ravaged in Sharknado 3. Fin, his family and the cosmos have been blissfully sharknado-free in the intervening years, but now sharks – and ‘nados! – are being whipped up in places (and ways) that are completely unexpected…

Syfy’s announcement on May 4 – appropriate considering the title — was missed here for the very reason that we were busy telling one another “May the Fourth be with you.”

A Star Wars-style poster was released as well.

Sharknado 4 poster

The poster’s symbolism has been intently scrutinized by Syfy’s learned bloggers:

Cue the intense speculation . . . what can we learn about the movie from this intense action-heavy poster? Well, Finn, April and The Hoff are back, although it would appear that April is half the woman she once was, operating with a sweet bionic arm. Hitting up the corners clockwise from the lower right we can catch glimpses of The Golden Gate Bridge, perhaps “The Dude” dressed up as Elvis in Las Vegas, a red barn/house going all Wizard of Oz in the Sharknado, and then finally (hey diddle diddle) we’ve got cows jumping over the moon. Interesting…

Yahoo! News listed all the celebrity cameos. None are closely related to sf/f, unlike Sharknado 3 which balanced the books on the Red Wedding by having George R.R. Martin eaten by a shark.

The celebrities appearing in Sharknado 4 are:

  • Cynthia Bailey (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), Robert Herjavec (Shark Tank), Kym Johnson (Dancing With the Stars), TV host Carrie Keagan, T’Keyah Crystal Keymah (That’s So Raven), Gena Lee Nolin (Sheena) and Alexandra Paul (Baywatch) will play various Astro-X rocket scientists and astrophysicists.
  • Benjy Bronk (The Howard Stern Show) will play a morning show host.
  • Duane Chapman (Dog the Bounty Hunter) will play a chainsaw dealer.
  • Stacey Dash (Clueless, Fox News correspondent) will play the Mayor of Chicago.
  • Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts will play the manager of the Shark World hotel.
  • David Faustino (Married with Children) will play a Las Vegas gambler.
  • Lori Greiner (Shark Tank) will play a home-shopping guru.
  • MMA fighter Frank Mir will play the head of security for the Shark World hotel.
  • Dr. Drew Pinsky (Loveline) will play a pastor.
  • Patti Stanger (Millionaire Matchmaker) will play a reporter.
  • Slipknot’s Corey Taylor will play a Shark World hotel security guard.
  • Lastly, the following individuals will appear as themselves: Vince Neil of Motley Crue and Wayne Newton, along with Todd, Savannah and Grayson Chrisley (Chrisley Knows Best).

9 thoughts on “Sharknado 4 Warning

  1. I think David Faustino had a cameo in one of the Alien Nation movies….

  2. The latest Rue Morgue had a nice writeup of forgotten Sharkxploatation movies. I’m kind of interested in Raiders OF The Lost Shark.

  3. To quote someone else: “Spar me the details”. It’s not quite up there with “so long and thanks for all the fish”, but someone will find a way with these films to use that phrase.

  4. David Langford on May 6, 2016 at 4:41 am said:

    I wonder whether Chuck Tingle will topically find himself sharked in the butt.

    Apparently (as far as I’ve been able to tell from browsing his twitter feed), Tingle denies the very existence of sharks. This is apparently one of the notable features of the Tingleverse. So the answer is almost certainly no; it would be inconsistent with his shtick.

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