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Emily Tremaine, Megan Ketch and Shiloh Fernandez have been cast in the Syfy pilot Tremors, which sees Kevin Bacon return to the franchise in a story set 25 years after the original movie.

Tremaine will play Emily McKee, described as “the whip-smart daughter” of Bacon’s character, Val McKee, with a bright future ahead of her. Newly graduated she stops by Perfection to see her dad, but quality time with him is the standard disappointment, as Emily’s belief that he’ll never change is confirmed.

Ketch will play Mindy Sterngood, a charismatic young doctor with an eyebrow-raising fixation on the much-older Val, who saved her from a Graboid at age 9. But Mindy is hiding something that makes her an unanticipated threat: compelling as she is, more cunning is her mask.

Fernandez will play Nico Garza, who has been killing time in Perfection, working in Earl’s Graboid Waste Gobbling company, waiting for the right moment to leave. The last thing he wants is to turn out like Val, who’s stayed stuck in nowheresville all these years.

Andrew Miller wrote the pilot which Vincenzo Natali will direct.