Ving Rhames, Paul Scheer And Christopher Lloyd All Back For Piranha 3DD

Ving Rhames in Piranha 3D
(Image credit: Lantern Entertainment, LLC)

Those that left the theater last summer after watching Piranha 3D were left with a mystery: what exactly happened to the zinc-oxide-wearing softcore ponographer Andrew 'Drew' Cunningham, played by Paul Scheer? While Scheer himself took to his website to offer up a few funny suggestions in regard to what happened, the truth is that that scene that determined his fate was left on the cutting room floor. Today we learn that he did, in fact, survive.

Dimension has sent out a press release announcing that Scheer and fellow first movie alumni Christopher Lloyd and Ving Rhames have all joined the cast of Piranha 3DD, which went into production. The three men join a cast of newbies to the franchise, including Gary Busey, Katrina Bowden, Danielle Panabaker, Matt Bush, Chris Zylka, David Koechner, Meagan Tandy, Paul James Jordan, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Hector Jimenez, Adrian Martinez, and Clu Gulager. The film is being directed by John Gulager and this time around will be set in a waterpark, instead of on Spring Break.

There's just one little bit of strangeness about this article: didn't Ving Rhames die? Apparently not.

Eric Eisenberg
Assistant Managing Editor

Eric Eisenberg is the Assistant Managing Editor at CinemaBlend. After graduating Boston University and earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism, he took a part-time job as a staff writer for CinemaBlend, and after six months was offered the opportunity to move to Los Angeles and take on a newly created West Coast Editor position. Over a decade later, he's continuing to advance his interests and expertise. In addition to conducting filmmaker interviews and contributing to the news and feature content of the site, Eric also oversees the Movie Reviews section, writes the the weekend box office report (published Sundays), and is the site's resident Stephen King expert. He has two King-related columns.