'Sharknado 5' News: Shark Carnage Goes International As Film Goes to UK, Australia

SyFy is still at it and they won't stop making "Sharknado" movies for as long as loyal fans want more television movies out of the franchise. The cable network has confirmed that "Sharknado 5" has been greenlighted and it is set to go international.

According to a report by Variety, SyFy is looking at taking the campy disaster shark carnage to major cities in the world after it went national in the 2016 installment "Sharknado: The Fourth Awakens" which was no doubt a play of the Star Wars installment "The Force Awakens."

The film will be helmed for the fifth time by its previous director Anthony C. Ferrante while the screenplay will be done by Scotty Mullen, who also penned the fourth installment. Also set to return to the franchise are lead stars Ian Ziering and Tara Reid.

"I want to do international. There are still U.S. cities that I want to destroy. 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," Ferrante said in an earlier interview with Slashfilm.

"Sharknado 5" is expected to film in countries like the UK and Australia but a visit to Paris can also be a possibility as the last sequence of "Sharknado 4" ended with the Eiffel Tower suddenly falling on Niagara Falls.

The Sharknado TV movie franchise started in 2013 and became a trending topic on Twitter because of celebrities who tweeted about the first movie. While its first airing pulled in only 1.37 million viewers, SyFy showed the film again a week after and raked in 1.89 million viewers. Its third screening posted 2.1 million viewers, which made it the highest rating encore received by the network, Deadline reported.

"Sharknado: The Second One" exceeded the ratings of the first movie and easily overtook the original as the highest rating encore premiere in SyFy with 3.9 million viewers. "Sharknado: Oh Hell No!" was released in 2015 while "Sharknado: The Fourth Awakens" came out in 2016.