i always worry when there seems to be an unneccesary sequel being made to a movie that really does not need a sequel. (hmm, Easy Rider AD seems like a pretty recent example of this). but the funny thing is that, time just washes most of these right out of memory. lets see how many we can dredge up.
THE TWO JAKES -- 16 years after CHINATOWN
TEXASVILLE -- 19 years after THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI -- 6 years after AMERICAN GRAFFITI
THE EVENING STAR -- 10 years after TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
THE ODD COUPLE II -- 30 years after THE ODD COUPLE
ESCAPE FROM LA -- 15 years after ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
BLUES BROTHERS 2000 -- 18 years after THE BLUES BROTHERS
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS -- 16 years after ...IN LONDON
THE RAGE: CARRIE II -- 23 years after CARRIE
SHOCK TREATMENT -- 6 years after THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
PSYCHO II, III, IV -- 23 years and more after PSYCHO
RETURN TO OZ -- 46 years after THE WIZARD OF OZ
why do some of these remind me of the opening of The Player when Buck Henry is pitching "THE GRADUATE II"?
Great topic, whatabout Staying Alive
ohh, thanks. great one.
STAYING ALIVE -- 6 years after SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
2010 -- 16 years after 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
THE STING II - 10 years after the sting.
How about Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, 7 years later.
Or Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, 10 years after the first.
An important rule for sequels -- don't try to replace known actors. The Sting II had everything the original did, save for the charismatic leads (Redford and Newman "replaced" by Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis) and the clever plot. Never, ever try to replace two guys like Redford and Newman. The prequel, Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, made do with Tom Berenger and William Katt.
Another example is Grease 2 -- John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, gone. Would it have made money with them? Who knows.
The exception seems to be movies like Batman, in which the lead actor is less important than the title character.
Is 'Return To Oz' as freaky as I remember it being?
Thirty-one years after:
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What about Another 48hrs - eight years after the original.
I suspect we'll soon be able to add Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights to the list....
Quote from: Marty McSuperflyWhat about Another 48hrs - eight years after the original.
I suspect we'll soon be able to add Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights to the list....
I heard this was quite true (minus Jennifer Gray....) :shock:
I also heard Swayze's stocking up on Ben-Gay....... :wink:
I actually thought the Two Jakes was a great film, despite the stigma of it being a sequal to one of the best movies ever made.......
another stakeout - 6 years after the first
and how about godfather 3? something like 17 years after part 2, and we really didnt need a third, did we?
...actually its not that bad.....but sofia coppola should stick to directing
Quote from: eward...actually its not that bad.....but sofia coppola should stick to directing
I agree, with just a few tweaks to it, and never letting Sofia get on screen the movie could have been pretty good/
Thirteen years between Exorcist II and III. And another thirteen years between Exorcist III and:
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Quote from: GhostboyIs 'Return To Oz' as freaky as I remember it being?
Yes. Two words: Fairuza Balk.
Actually that whole movie was pretty messed up for being marketed to "kids." The whole shock treatment, the lady that switches heads, and the moose head--all a bit out of league for the kiddies.
Okay, so these sequels aren't separated by much time, but I think it's safe to say that everyone stopped caring after Part2
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Quote from: MacGuffinThirteen years between Exorcist II and III. And another thirteen years between Exorcist III and:
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Hate to be a fanboy, but this trailer sounds badass:
QuoteStarts with the voice over of Father Damien asking Regan all the questions he asked from the first film, "who am I talking to, how old are you," in which Regan replies "12" and then all of a sudden you see Regan's ugly possessed face on the screen, and it then turns black and you see images of the first film going backwards, you see Father Damien who jumped out the window and fell on the stairs fly backwards up to the window and into Regan's room, and you see Father Merrin go backwards into the taxi in front of Regan's house and [which is shown on the Exorcist poster] quickly the screen turns black. Then the words "GO BACK, GO BACK, GO BACK, GO BACK .....TO THE BEGINNING" appear on the screen. You then see the young boy who is now possessed by the devil, and all sorts of action starts popping up, like the young priest played by Gabriel Mann in a tomb flying in the air dropping his rosary, and it ends with the theme song from the first Exorcist. The trailer is pretty cool and scary especially when the boy rises from his bed with the white pale face.
*chills*
Quote from: GhostboyIs 'Return To Oz' as freaky as I remember it being?
Yes.
Quote from: MeshQuote from: MacGuffinThirteen years between Exorcist II and III. And another thirteen years between Exorcist III and:
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Hate to be a fanboy, but this trailer sounds badass:
QuoteStarts with the voice over of Father Damien asking Regan all the questions he asked from the first film, "who am I talking to, how old are you," in which Regan replies "12" and then all of a sudden you see Regan's ugly possessed face on the screen, and it then turns black and you see images of the first film going backwards, you see Father Damien who jumped out the window and fell on the stairs fly backwards up to the window and into Regan's room, and you see Father Merrin go backwards into the taxi in front of Regan's house and [which is shown on the Exorcist poster] quickly the screen turns black. Then the words "GO BACK, GO BACK, GO BACK, GO BACK .....TO THE BEGINNING" appear on the screen. You then see the young boy who is now possessed by the devil, and all sorts of action starts popping up, like the young priest played by Gabriel Mann in a tomb flying in the air dropping his rosary, and it ends with the theme song from the first Exorcist. The trailer is pretty cool and scary especially when the boy rises from his bed with the white pale face.
*chills*
This is Paul Schrader directed, right (but not written...?). Should be worth checking out.
Pauline Kael loved Boorman's sequel, but I'm trepidatious. And what about Blatty's sequel...?
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This is Paul Schrader directed, right (but not written...?). Should be worth checking out.
Yep. I think Caleb Carr had some hand in the screenplay, too. From what I've heard, he's a fairly literate thriller novelist. Anyone read his books?
Quote from: godardianPauline Kael loved Boorman's sequel, but I'm trepidatious. And what about Blatty's sequel...?
I never made it through The Exorcist II: The Heretic. It seemed really dated and psychobabbly, what I saw of it; the best scenes were bits of footage from the original.
Now, was Blatty's book sequel called "Legion"? I think so.
The third film I recall being somewhat creeped out by.....Did it not have its moments?
Quote from: godardianQuote from: GhostboyIs 'Return To Oz' as freaky as I remember it being?
Yes.
also agree
'Doubtfire' Sequel Coming Out of Closet
Mrs. Doubtfire isn't finished yet. Eleven years after the Robin Williams drag comedy appeared on the big screen, a sequel to the hit film is in the works at Fox.
Williams is in early talks to reprise his role as Mrs. Doubtfire, and to resume producing duties with his wife, Marsha Williams. Bonnie Hunt also is in talks to pen the project.
In the original, directed by Chris Columbus, Williams played an estranged father who poses as a Scottish nanny, Euphegenia Doubtfire, in order to get access to his children and successfully bypass his ex-wife ). The film grossed $219 million domestically.
The film garnered two Golden Globes in 1994, one for best picture (comedy/musical) and one for Williams as best actor in a comedy/musical. The film also won an Oscar for best makeup for Williams' elaborate transformation into a frumpy, bespectacled older woman.
Quote from: MacGuffin'Doubtfire' Sequel Coming Out of Closet
Mrs. Doubtfire isn't finished yet. Eleven years after the Robin Williams drag comedy appeared on the big screen, a sequel to the hit film is in the works at Fox.
Williams is in early talks to reprise his role as Mrs. Doubtfire, and to resume producing duties with his wife, Marsha Williams. Bonnie Hunt also is in talks to pen the project.
In the original, directed by Chris Columbus, Williams played an estranged father who poses as a Scottish nanny, Euphegenia Doubtfire, in order to get access to his children and successfully bypass his ex-wife ). The film grossed $219 million domestically.
The film garnered two Golden Globes in 1994, one for best picture (comedy/musical) and one for Williams as best actor in a comedy/musical. The film also won an Oscar for best makeup for Williams' elaborate transformation into a frumpy, bespectacled older woman.
I laughed so hard when I heard about this. I can't wait to watch this over and over again on cable in ten years (if it actually gets made).
Quote from: MacGuffinThe film garnered two Golden Globes in 1994, one for best picture (comedy/musical)
94 Must have been a slow year for comedies.
how dare you say that to the year of Jingle All the Way and Three Ninjas: Kick Back?
Apparently there was a sequel to Christmas vacation starring the uncle who goes on some cruise to an island.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1336768&skuId=6094371&type=product
Disgusted isn't the best word for it, but it comes to mind.
yeah i believe it was made for TV and aired last year. i didnt see it but might this year although its bound to be horrible.
Quote from: The chapter listing on that BestBuy site
1. Smaller Brain Waves
2. A Big Disappointment
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RETURN TO OZ -- 46 years after THE WIZARD OF OZ
hey, RETURN TO OZ is great!!
Quote from: rudieobQuote from: themodernage02
RETURN TO OZ -- 46 years after THE WIZARD OF OZ
hey, RETURN TO OZ is great!!
it is.
it really is.
We forgot this one:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110168/
My Summer Story...11 years after A Christmas Story
with Charles Grodin, Two Culkins and Mary Steenburgen, how could you go wrong?
"far away so close" is a washed up sequel to "wings of desire"
it's fucking horrible. and then an equally horrible remake, "city of angels" later.
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I saw the orinal predator, is predator 2 (which is getting a Collector's edition DVD on January 25th) worth watching?..anybody?
Quote from: SiliasRubyI saw the orinal predator, is predator 2 (which is getting a Collector's edition DVD on January 25th) worth watching?..anybody?
i haven't seen it since it came out but i remember kind of liking some of what it had to offer. I kind of like how danny glover was the replacement for arnold. mind you, looking at it now i'd probably see more flaws in it. hope that helps out.
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Quote from: SiliasRubyI saw the orinal predator, is predator 2 (which is getting a Collector's edition DVD on January 25th) worth watching?..anybody?
Couldn't stand P2. Loved the first one.
Quote from: socketlevelQuote from: SiliasRubyI saw the orinal predator, is predator 2 (which is getting a Collector's edition DVD on January 25th) worth watching?..anybody?
i haven't seen it since it came out but i remember kind of liking some of what it had to offer. I kind of like how danny glover was the replacement for arnold. mind you, looking at it now i'd probably see more flaws in it. hope that helps out.
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Quote from: raviCouldn't stand P2. Loved the first one.
Thanks so much. I'll knock it off my wish list.
Quote from: SiliasRubyI saw the orinal predator, is predator 2 (which is getting a Collector's edition DVD on January 25th) worth watching?..anybody?
predator 2 sucks ass. trust me. i loved this first one. danny glover doesnt do a convincing arnold Sharwz. but it does have gary busey. thats always a plus. basically , this film sucks like robocop 2
Quote from: NEON MERCURYQuote from: SiliasRubyI saw the orinal predator, is predator 2 (which is getting a Collector's edition DVD on January 25th) worth watching?..anybody?
predator 2 sucks ass. trust me. i loved this first one. danny glover doesnt do a convincing arnold Sharwz. but it does have gary busey. thats always a plus. basically , this film sucks like robocop 2
Ok, then fuck it then. I have total confidence in what Neon says so...yeah, I'm definitely not getting it.
Godfather 3
The Crow 2 and 3
Children of the Corn 2, 3, and 4
Evil Dead 4 (When it gets made)
I always thought Die Hard 3 never really got its due. The biggest criticism was that it was very impatient with the action elements; the explosions and harder than life situations to survive. It is very impatient. To a fault even. But the narrative is really excellent beyond that. There's a good realism for the ethics of New York life that is very much in the characters with the way they worry about the trivial like street traffic that in real life is the biggest ordeal for anyone in NYC. It has a sense of location for characters unlike many films.
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. Since the characters died in the original, they went back to make a prequel. In fact, I believe this was the first prequel ever made -- a dubious distinction indeed.
How about More American Graffiti? Return to Macon County?
It is always cheesy when they make sequels without the main stars -- like Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, in which William Devane replaced Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal was nowhere to be seen.
Quote from: MyxomatosisGodfather 3
i agree with the Godfather III. i think the reason why peopel; think its shit is because its the sequel to two a the greatest films ever IMHO. also, people will have all this bullshit to say about it but most of them haven't even seen the thing.
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI always thought Die Hard 3 never really got its due. The biggest criticism was that it was very impatient with the action elements; the explosions and harder than life situations to survive. It is very impatient. To a fault even. But the narrative is really excellent beyond that. There's a good realism for the ethics of New York life that is very much in the characters with the way they worry about the trivial like street traffic that in real life is the biggest ordeal for anyone in NYC. It has a sense of location for characters unlike many films.
it was my favorite movie when I was in 8th grade, but then I saw it again last summer when the boxset dvd was released and it just didn't hold up. some shit was cool, but all that riddle shit was riddle-culous, as was the reverse-racism blabber. and don't even get me started on the alternate ending.
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starring
JASON
JAMES
RICHTER
...from Free Willy!
Hilarious.
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Time forgot this sequel so much that it forgot what it was called.
And yes, that's Jack Black on the second cover ("RETURN to Fantasia")
the two jakes and psycho II are good films though (jack nicholson's only direction to date i think)
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Quote from: socketlevelthe two jakes and psycho II are good films though (jack nicholson's only direction to date i think)
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yes, well the intention of the thread was not 'look how sucky these movies are'. it was more, think of how many 'classic' movies have sequels that nobody ever talks about. many of which came much later, some of which were quickly swept under the carpet. horror films usually dont apply to this because they are constantly sequeled to death, i used psycho as an exception because obviously the first one was hitchcock, and a classic nobody thought would've spawned sequels decades later. godfather three whether or not it has any merits is not one that time has forgotten, yet anyways, although we may like to it is part of the 'trilogy' and pretty well remembered at this point. die hard as well, i think is still too new to be forgotten.
coo, classic movies like the sequel to the archetypal film staring michael j. fox: teen wolf too.
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The NINJA TURTLE Come Back
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are about to make another comeback, now that Imagi Services has hired animation veteran Kevin Munroe to write and direct a new, CGI-animated revival of the popular kids' characters. A spring 2007 release is planned.
The pizza-eating, evil-fighting reptiles have actually come back into favor, thanks to a new, syndicated TV series that was launched three years ago. The originals debuted in a 1980s comic book, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.
Tom Gray, Imagi president and CEO, produced two of the earlier Turtles films. He will be producing the new version, along with Galen Walker. Laird, Francis Kao, Gary Richardson and Frederick Fierst are serving as executive producers.
why not make an animated movie of the ghostbusters while they're at it?
ghost busters cartoon or movie? wait, are they making the cgi turles movie on the cartoon or the movies? wait, what happened?
Flamingos Forever :*( RIP Divine
Lloyd Kaufman said they're considering remaking The Toxic Avenger (forgot whether in book or at troma.com)
Kids these days have no clue of who these turtles are... and they also dont give a shit... Samurai Turtles? It wont work
Quote from: andykalKids these days have no clue of who these turtles are... and they also dont give a shit... Samurai Turtles? It wont work
sure they do. a new (darker) cartoon has been on the air for 2 years and from the looks of the merchandising, its doing pretty well.
Quote from: themodernage02Quote from: andykalKids these days have no clue of who these turtles are... and they also dont give a shit... Samurai Turtles? It wont work
sure they do. a new (darker) cartoon has been on the air for 2 years and from the looks of the merchandising, its doing pretty well.
wow I didnt know that... I'm gonna look for it... I used to love that crap... and I still have the VHS movies somewhere
Still I'm not sure about all this new crap... Turtles, Robotech, He-Man... what else?
Do the Power Rangers still exist?
Ready for Mummy 3?
It could come out next year.
Just a quick note here for all of you who enjoyed The Mummy and/or its wacky sequel, The Mummy Returns... a third movie in the franchise appears to be on the way.
JoBlo, citing an anonymous source, says that director Stephen Sommers has already finished a script for The Mummy III. Shooting could begin this year with a 2006 release in mind.
There's no official announcement yet, of course. Nor do we know yet whether Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and the rest of the main characters will return – though it would be hard to imagine a sequel without them.
So what do fans think about a third Mummy? Should it be more like the first film, or like the second? Should it keep the Egyptian theme, or involve mummies from another ancient civilization? Send me your ideas, and watch this spot for more updates!
sounds better than Van Helsing Too!
Quote from: themodernage02sounds better than Van Helsing Too!
yes, but since van helsing smells like the decomposing pope i hope sommers gets his act together.
Beatty Sues for Rights to Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy isn't on his way at least not to movie theaters any time soon. Warren Beatty wants to make a new movie featuring the comic book detective but has been thwarted by Tribune Media Services, which claims control over Tracy's character.
Beatty, in response, has sued the Chicago-based company for $30 million, saying Tribune violated a complex agreement regarding the Tracy rights.
Under the 1985 agreement, Beatty took control of the Tracy character from Tribune but was required to give it back at the company's request under several conditions and following a two-year notification process.
Beatty gave the rights to The Walt Disney Co. and in 1990 starred in and produced "Dick Tracy" for Disney. The film, which featured Tracy's catch phrase "I'm on my way," made more than $100 million.
In 2002, according to Beatty's lawsuit filed Friday in Superior Court, Tribune took back control of Tracy and notified Disney but not through the process outlined in the agreement.
Disney rejected Tribune's claim and gave Beatty back most of the rights this month, his attorney Bertram Fields said Monday.
Beatty is now ready to make another film and "has a very good idea" for the story but has been held back by Tribune's claim, Fields said.
Fields said Beatty's original agreement with Tribune was negotiated specifically to allow the 68-year-old actor a chance to make another Tracy film.
"It was very carefully done and they just ignored it," he said. "The Tribune is a big, powerful company and they think they can just run roughshod over people. They picked the wrong guy."
Steve Tippie, vice president of marketing and licensing for Tribune Media Services, said he had not yet seen the lawsuit and could not comment.
Tribune Media Services is a division of the Tribune Co., which owns radio and TV stations nationwide and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times.
Sony Pics struck with sequel fever
An outbreak of sequelitis has hit Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
"Hollow Man 2," "Road House 2 -- Last Call" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer 3" are in various stages of development at the company. It has not been determined whether the projects will be released theatrically or become direct-to-DVD releases.
"Hollow Man 2" is being produced by Red Wagon's Douglas Wick, David Lancaster and Vicki Sotheran. The story revolves around a Seattle detective and a biologist who are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue as well as the government forces that created him.
Swiss director Claudio Feah, repped by ICM, is directing from a script by Joel Soisson. A mid-August start date is scheduled.
Neal Moritz and Eric Feig, two of the producers behind 1997's "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and 1998's "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer," return as producers for "Last Summer 3." The story, which focuses on new characters who didn't appear in the first two movies, revolves around four teens in a Colorado town who are menaced by an assailant a year after a Fourth of July prank turns deadly. Michael Weiss wrote the screenplay.
A director is expected to be announced shortly, and a late-summer shoot in Utah is planned.
"Road House 2" is being produced by Tomorrow Film Corp.'s Yoram Pelman. Gersh-repped Scott Ziehl is in negotiations to direct. Jonathan Schaech, also repped by Gersh, has an offer to star.Miles Chapman is the writer.
An August shoot is being eyed for the project.
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
true, lawnmower man wasn't exactly a classic film, but i love the scene when pierce brosnan is inquiring about what happened to his neighbor who was chopped to bits by the runaway lawnmower, and one officer is asking another where the rest of the remains are, and the officer replies "the birdbath".
...longest run-on sentence ever
am I the only one that remembers Snake Eyes 2: Snake Ears
Neve Campbell to Scream Again?
Source: Icons of Fright August 30, 2005
Horror fansite Icons of Fright attended the Monster Mania convention in Cherry Hill, NJ this weekend and got updates about various projects.
Wes Craven told attendees that he recently had breakfast with Neve Campbell, who said she had recently spoken with the Weinsteins about coming back for Scream 4. Campbell apparently is seriously considering playing Sidney Prescott again in the highly-profitable franchise.
R. Lee Ermy was present and mentioned that the script for Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning was full of problems. "It was a tough read", he said, and originally refused the role until he could personally re-write his own dialogue for the prequel.
Don Shanks, who played Michael Myers in Halloween 5, also announced that he had been cast as the Fisherman in I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer.
Ahem... BLOODSPORT 2! (http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=8356)
Don't lie, you've been waiting for this day for what seems like...forever!! According to our man 'Alex' and the latest official Jean-Claude Van Damme newsletter (no joke, there really is such a thing), the Muscles from Brussels is ready to follow-up one of his first, and biggest hits, BLOODSPORT, from way back in 1988, with a follow-up. That's right, BLOODSPORT 2, bitches...it's here!!
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I must say that personally, this news that I'm quite excited about. I love Bloodsport. This movie already had 3 sequels, but those were unofficial. This is the first return of Frank Dux (Van Damme's character from the first movie).
Dumb and Dumberer and Son of the Mask are future additions.
Even though they probably shouldn't have bothered, i enjoyed Psycho's 2 and 3.
Quote from: GaramDumb and Dumberer and Son of the Mask are future additions.
yes, perfect. :yabbse-thumbup: the reason the thread was birthed.
Quote from: modageQuote from: GaramDumb and Dumberer and Son of the Mask are future additions.
yes, perfect. :yabbse-thumbup: the reason the thread was birthed.
Both movies in which the originals starred Jim Carrey, and the sequels did not. This does not bode well for Bruce Almighty II (I guess it's called something else now, the first name of the Steve Carell character).
Independence Day 2 Status
Was the sci-fi sequel scrapped?
It's been over two years since we heard any news on the Independent Day sequel. Back in the spring of 2003, filmmaking duo Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were already preparing a new alien invasion story. Devlin was hard at work on a script and planned to write in as many characters from ID4 as possible. In an interview given around that time, he said he and Emmerich had an idea they were really excited about.
And that's about as far as ID4:2 got. Devlin moved on to other projects – in particular "The Triangle", a Sci Fi Channel miniseries that he is writing and producing. Emmerich wrote and directed The Day After Tomorrow, and he has several other upcoming features on his plate as well.
When work got underway on the new Independence Day, the events of 9/11 – still fresh in the public conscious – were cited as a major influence in the story. Could it be that events since then, both political and otherwise, have made such an idea less attractive? Devlin suggests, rather, that since sequels to disaster films never turn out well, he and Emmerich decided just to forget the whole thing.
"[The script for the ID4 sequel] was actually inspired by 9/11. And you know, there's a lot of good stuff in it, but it still didn't feel right," he recently explained to Sci Fi Wire. "[It] didn't feel like the right thing to do. So at least at the moment, Roland and I have no intention of doing a sequel to Independence Day.
"We finished the script, and we looked at it, ... we said, 'Yeah, it's good, but is it right?' …And so we actually gave the money back to 20th Century Fox that they paid us to write it. We said, 'Look, we can't take the money, because we don't want to do it.' And we explained our thinking on it, and, I got to say, to their credit, they agreed with us. And so they didn't move forward with the sequel with someone else. Now, I don't know if that'll hold down the line, but at least today they agree with us: that it was never intended to have a sequel, and if we did it, it would just be for the money, and that's not the right reason to do a sequel."
The decision seems clear and final: no more Independence Day films.
Quote from: MacGuffin on December 01, 2005, 01:31:25 AMThe decision seems clear and final: no more Independence Day films.
thank christ for that!
Ninja Turtles in '07!
Warners, Weinsteins to distribute CG pic.
Variety reports that the CGI-animated feature version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will hit theaters in the U.S. on March 30, 2007. Warner Bros. will distribute the Kevin Munroe-directed pic stateside while The Weinstein Co. will handle overseas distribution. An international release date is to be determined.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles represents a brand that is widely recognized all around the world, and we think this new CG version will be a huge hit among audiences everywhere," Harvey Weinstein said.
The new Ninja Turtles is aiming for a PG rating despite a "slightly grittier" approach than the live-action film series previously produced by New Line.
the weinsteins are getting desperate.
the first Turtles film was pretty damn gritty, i dont know how a CG animated cartoon is going to be darker than that.
Quote from: modage on March 09, 2006, 11:15:37 AM
the first Turtles film was pretty damn gritty, i dont know how a CG animated cartoon is going to be darker than that.
Need gritty? They should land Acadamy Award Winning group ThreeSix Mafia for the score.
The 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made
EW names the best of the nearly unwatchable movie sequels. We dredged the bottom of the sequel swamp to bring you this list
No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. But it happens. A lot. Especially when there's a 2, a III, or an Electric Boogaloo in the title. Hollywood's mania for sequels is a relatively new development. Sure, there was a string of Thin Man comedies back in the '30 and '40s — not to mention the ongoing B-movie shenanigans of Charlie Chan, Abbott and Costello, and Dracula, Blacula, and Scott Bakula. But never has the impulse to wring more something out of nothing been so craven and commonplace as it is right now.
Stars generally skip the inevitably cruddy sequels. And when they do crawl back for sloppy seconds, their heart never seems to be in it. That's because sequels, as a general rule, blow. But some are so ill-conceived, so cynically calculated, and so aggressively inept that they need to be called out and held accountable in the public square. Or, in this case, Entertainment Weekly. Hence our list of the 25 Worst Sequels Ever Made. But before we kick off the countdown of caca, a quick word on our criteria. First, we looked at how steep a sequel's drop-off in quality was from the original. Then we weighed how utterly unnecessary the sequel was. You're probably thinking, ''Yeah, but some sequels are so bad they're good!'' Those aren't on this list. These movies are so absolutely bad their badness can be measured only in Kelvin degrees. Finally, we factored in a certain intangible stankitude — a sort of je ne sais crap that makes a film so god-awful you wish there were a cinematic Hague where it could be tried. Until such a court is convened, however, all we can do is offer our testimony against these 25 offenders. We hope you have more fun reading about them than we had watching them.
25. the Matrix Reloaded 2003
Revolutions is actually worse. But the second Matrix feels more egregious because of the sheer nosedive from the original. Sci-fi droolers had four whole years of pent-up expectations and time wasted dissecting the first chapter's metaphysical riddles. And after all that waiting, what did they get? A laughable techno rave in Zion with a lot of slo-mo sweat and revelers in hemp clothing. It's like a Lenny Kravitz video directed by Bob Guccione.
24. The Next Karate Kid 1994
Think of it as a turd with an inspirational silver lining. After all, its 20-year-old star, Hilary Swank, later went on to win two Oscars. But what does it say when even Macchio doesn't want in? Swank plays bratty tomboy ''Julie-san,'' who learns to harness her rage thanks to the fortune-cookie wisdom of Mr. Miyagi. Comic relief is provided by a trio of roly-poly Buddhist monks who can bowl with their eyes closed. Seriously.
23. Porky's II: The Next day 1983
Was there ever a better time to be a horny teenager than 1983? That year, such teen T&A sex romps as Private School, Losin' It, and My Tutor rolled off the assembly line like shiny new Buicks. And all of them owe their being to Porky's. But by the time this quick-turnaround money grab (which is surprisingly lite on the boobies) was released, the cash cow had been milked dry. I mean, where do you go after Pee-wee loses his virginity? The circle's frickin' complete.
22. Teen Wolf Too 1987
You could consider the first Teen Wolf a complex metaphor for the scariness of puberty, what with the sprouting fur and confusing changes. But the awkwardness of adolescence is nothing compared with what Jason Bateman runs up against as a lupine college freshman. Bateman — in what would become the long winter between Silver Spoons and Arrested Development — sleepwalks through the too-clueless-to-be-metaphorical sequel.
21. Legally Blonde 2: red, white & blonde 2003
You had to be made of stone not to be smitten with Elle Woods the first time around. But when Ms. Witherspoon turns Capitol Hill into her own Barbie Dream House while trying to find her Chihuahua Bruiser's birth mother, she goes from cute to cloying. Plus, making things pink is not a substitute for jokes. Saddest of all is when poor Bob Newhart is forced to deliver the line ''Fo' shizzle, my ezzle.'' Jesus wept.
20. The Godfather part III 1990
Francis Ford Coppola mortgaged the Corleone legacy in this ridiculous postscript about La Cosa Nostra getting into bed with the Vatican, death by poison cannoli, and hotheaded nephew Andy Garcia rolling gnocchi with Sofia Coppola as they interlace fingers (it's like a mobster version of the Ghost pottery-wheel scene). Critics dogpiled on 19-year-old Sofia. And she is terrible. But she's the least offensive thing in this act of cinematic grave-defiling.
19. Revenge of the Nerds II: nerds in paradise 1987
The Tri-Lambs go to Fort Lauderdale. Lamar still wears leopard-print banana hammock undies, Booger's still a pig in a ''Who Farted?'' T-shirt, and as for Lewis and Gilbert, well, you couldn't keep Robert Carradine away with a stick. Anthony Edwards phones it in, though, calling the nerds from back on campus, where he's nursing a broken leg. Highlight: The nerds rap, with Wormser on the wheels of steel!
18. Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973
BFPOA features plenty of ape-on-ape action, but little else. In a prologue, John Huston (hiding behind ape makeup and, no doubt, laughing all the way to the bank) lends his baritone to catch us up on some of the four previous Apes flicks. Then gorilla general Aldo tries to overthrow the benevolent Caesar (Roddy McDowall) while a posse of radioactive human mutants (their most obvious symptom is an allergy to acting) plan a race war.
17. Star Trek V: the final frontier 1989
My favorite Trek joke goes ''What do they call Star Trek in Japan?'' Answer: Sulu, Master Navigator. My least favorite? The Final Frontier. Who else but William Shatner would show, in a film he's directing, a scene of himself manfully climbing Yosemite's El Capitan? Trek V is an oil slick of spiritual hooey in which Kirk meets God face-to-face, then sasses and back-talks him. In an irony probably lost on the hubristic, hairpieced auteur, God looks like atheist Karl Marx.
16. Ocean's Twelve 2004
Clooney and Co. forget what made Ocean's Eleven a gas, drowning their sequel in smug inside jokes (Julia Roberts' character impersonates Julia Roberts!) and painful additions (Catherine Zeta-Jones as a leather-clad world-class sleuth? Villain Vincent Cassel eluding infrared alarms by break dancing?). This is a bunch of zillionaires dishing out more of the same and expecting you to lap it up, say thank you, and tip the waiter.
15. Dumb and Dumberer: when harry met lloyd 2003
Okay, I'll admit that the kid who plays the young Lloyd in this prequel does a pretty spot-on Jim Carrey. But it's saying something when the height of cleverness in this grab bag of short-bus retard jokes and doody gags is right there in the title. The moronic Mutt and Jeff's nemesis is played by Eugene Levy, who needs an intervention on how to say ''no'' before they approach him for The Man 2.
14. Conan the Destroyer 1984
Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have had sex with 20,000 women and he's the only pro basketball player ever to score 100 points in a game. But when it came to acting, he was shakier than Shaq at the foul line. Add Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Jones, and the cast of Conan 2 is like an all-star team of bad acting. The biggest irony is that Wilt's character is on board to protect the virginity of the princess on their quest. Talk about the fox in the henhouse.
13. The Sting II 1983
Paul Newman and Robert Redford's 1973 original won a Best Picture Oscar and featured a deliciously Byzantine con. Here we get a scam you can see driving down Fifth Avenue and the unholy pairing of mustachioed manatee Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis. Mac Davis! Not to be mean, but he's no Paul Newman. Heck, he's not even Laraine Newman. He's like one of those phenomena that are recognized but unexplained by science.
12. Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace 1999
Is there any doubt that Jake (Yippeeee!) Lloyd will be remembered as the intergalactic Jonathan Lipnicki? The dread kicks in during the opening scroll with its eye-glazing backstory about Trade Federations and taxation routes. We didn't wait 20 years for a lecture on supply-side economics! Right off the bat, Liam Neeson saves the life of Gungan minstrel Jar Jar Binks and it all goes to hell from there.
11. Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights 2004
This really has nothing to do with Dirty Dancing other than its Swayze cameo. A WASPy daddy's girl moves to Cuba on the eve of la revolución and gets swept up in politics, mambo, and hormones as she falls for dancefloor diablo Diego Luna. Most memorable Swayze quote: ''If you can't move through your fear and connect it to yourself, there's absolutely no way you're going to connect with your partner.'' God bless him.
10. Jaws: The Revenge 1987
After a Great White eats his plane, Michael Caine gets out of the water in a wet shirt. In the next shot, it's bone-dry. This is the kind of attention to detail that makes the fourth Jaws flick riper than a bucket of chum. The man-eater follows Mrs. Brody to the Bahamas, where Mario Van Peebles plays a Rastaman marine biologist. The video box boasts that it's ''the most incredible Jaws adventure of them all.'' Which is technically true.
9. Speed 2: Cruise Control 1997
It's amazing that people joke about Keanu Reeves being dumb, when he had the smarts to stay away from this. Sandra Bullock, however, is back as flibbertigibbet Annie, who's now dating Jason Patric's dreamy SWAT dude. We know he's sensitive because when he and Annie go on a cruise he talks to a girl in sign language. And we know fellow passenger Willem Dafoe's evil because he attaches leeches to himself after planting bombs on board. Frankly, the Norwalk virus would have made a more convincing villain.
8. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan 1989
None of the Camp Crystal Lake killathons are what you'd call good, but this one's unwatchable. Even the ways Jason dispatches his victims aren't very creative, unless you consider a speargun creative...and I think they used that in Part III. A group of teens sail to the Big Apple with stowaway Jason. As the boat starts to sink, the survivors row ashore with Jason swimming after them. (Wait, didn't he die in Part I because he couldn't swim?!) We don't get to Manhattan until the second hour. And when we do, it looks an awful lot like Vancouver.
7. The Fly II 1989
You may recall that at the end of the 1986 original, Geena Davis is knocked up with Jeff Goldblum's part-fly spawn. Here, Mom dies after delivering the gooey larva that grows up to become...Eric Stoltz. Stoltz plays a brainiac kept in a lab where he beds Daphne Zuniga before mutating. When he reveals his secret to her, she's incredibly understanding for a woman who just had sex with a fly. Which pretty much makes her the real hero of the film.
6. Weekend At Bernie's II 1993
Notice how they tried to class this one up by using the Roman numerals instead of calling it Weekend at Bernie's 2? That's where the sophistication begins and ends in this low-rent comedy about two schmucks (Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy) in the Virgin Islands with their dead boss. GE doesn't make bulbs as dim as these guys. At one point, Silverman stops to consider the morality of what they're doing: ''We're going to hell.'' If only.
5. Batman & Robin 1997
We don't want to bust Clooney's chops when he's riding high, but this makes his work in Return of the Killer Tomatoes look like Olivier. Yes, the nipples on the Batsuit are unfortunate, but the real sin is the screenplay, which hands the cast such hardee-har bons mots as Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze line ''The iceman cometh!'' There's too much of everything here. It's the movie equivalent of Nero playing a fiddle.
4. Blues Brothers 2000 1998
Where to begin? How about the fact that it's called Blues Brothers 2000 and it came out in 1998? How about that Dan Aykroyd's ex-con Elwood is joined in the band by a sweaty, blues-belting John Goodman and an orphan named Buster? How about a performance by Blues Traveler? Or the fact that a voodoo queen turns Aykroyd and Goodman into zombies? At least they spared us Jim Belushi. That's something.
3. Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha' Hood 2003
I personally tuned out after Leprechaun 1, which featured outstanding work by Jennifer Aniston. But who'da thunk it would take them so long to come up with the idea of mixing Irish stereotypes and African-American ones? Equal parts funky fresh and severed flesh, this sixth chapter has America's favorite troll smoking weed and hunting the homeboys who stole his pot o' gold. If a movie could spark a race riot, this is it.
2. CaddyShack II 1988
Again with the classy Roman numerals! This is one of the most brilliant marketing ploys ever. I don't know anyone who'd want to see Caddyshack 2, but Caddyshack II? Let me put on my ascot and monocle and I'm there! Unfortunately, Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, and the late great Ted Knight are not there. And Chevy Chase barely makes a cameo. Instead, how about a heapin' helpin' of Jackie Mason doing Catskills jokes that weren't funny the first time around?
1. Staying Alive 1983
It was impossible not to be moved by the '90s soap opera comeback of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. But what went little noted in that narrative of redemption was what caused his career to derail in the first place. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Staying Alive — a disaster of such epic proportions they should've handed out HazMat suits and Cipro when you entered the theater. Picking up several years after Saturday Night Fever, Travolta's Brooklyn disco Casanova Tony Manero is now a struggling Broadway dancer. Rejection has hardened his charm into a cocky, misogynistic swagger. After a one-night stand with a snooty dance star (General Hospital's Finola Hughes), he lands a part in Satan's Alley — a show so cheesy it looks like Bob Mackie throwing up on the Starlight Express. The bitchy director describes the musical as ''a journey through hell that ends with an ascent to heaven.'' We get the ''journey through hell'' part; where's the ascent? Tarted up in a Tarzan loincloth, Travolta shakes his moneymaker to Frank Stallone music. (The film's directed by his brother, Sylvester Stallone, finally answering the question, How much Stallone is too much Stallone?) Staying Alive is a sequel that ignores everything that made the original great, which of course may be the biggest insult of all.
The 10 Best Movie Sequels
We reveal the rare occasions when the sequel is tops
1. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
The first sequel to win Best Picture is an epic look at the American dream and its violent flip side, with Robert De Niro as the young Vito.
2. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
The ice planet Hoth, Lando kickin' it in Cloud City, Yoda, and the most memorable line in the Star Wars saga: ''I am your father.''
3. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
Not a sequel, you say? Well, it came after 1986's Manhunter, didn't it? Trust us, the logic is airtight. So is the film.
4. ALIENS (1986)
Sometimes bigger is better. In James Cameron's follow-up to Alien, there's no longer one face-hugging beast, but a whole planet of them!
5. THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982)
The craziest action movie ever made. If The Passion was Mel Gibson's communion with the divine, this is his drag race with Satan.
6. BEFORE SUNSET (2004)
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy replace flirty twentysomething yackety-yak with bittersweet regret and age-earned romantic wisdom.
7. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
Arnold goes head-to-head with the liquid-metal T-1000 in a follow-up that's bigger, louder, and wall-to-wall with F/X eye candy.
8. STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)
Moby-Dick in space, with Ricardo Montalban's megalomaniacal Khan as Ahab and Kirk as his white whale. KHHAAAAAN!
9. FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
A toss-up with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, this second part of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti-Western trilogy is a masterpiece.
10. TOY STORY 2 (1999)
So many kids' flicks sell their audience short with half-baked sequels, but Buzz and Woody's second adventure is every bit as good as the original.
Reason #574 to Hate Hollywood: Breakin' 3 is Coming
Source: Movieblog.com
No, this is not a joke. 26 years after Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo danced their way onto the scene, a third installment of the cheesy franchise appears to be heading our way.
Oh, and check this out: All three of the original stars will be returning. Break'n Revolution (Yes, I know it sounds like a piece of exercise equipment and/or a different version of Dance Dance Revolution) will bring back Turbo (Michael Chambers), Kelly (Lucinda Dickey) and Ozone (Adolfo Quinones) to act as older, wiser break-dancing mentors to a troubled young student.
The first two films were all 80's, complete with large boom boxes, colorful Michael Jackson-esque jumpsuits and horrific dialogue ("Girls are whack, man!"). I'd be curious, after so much time has passed, how they will update something that is so obviously stuck back in another decade. Perhaps the answer is found in the following sentence taken from the film's plot description on IMDB: "Though the story is intense, the real "intensity" will come from the extraordinary dance moves that can only come from "Break'n." Killer!
but breakdancing these days are sooo much better than the 80s.
Cue the Theme Music: Axel Foley's Comin' Back
A source of questionable veracity (London's The Sun) has indicated that animated ass extraordinaire Eddie Murphy will indeed show up to get paid for a third sequel in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.
Quote from: MacGuffin on May 02, 2006, 01:04:48 PM
Cue the Theme Music: Axel Foley's Comin' Back
A source of questionable veracity (London's The Sun) has indicated that animated ass extraordinaire Eddie Murphy will indeed show up to get paid for a third sequel in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.
It's going to star all the characters from the Klumps, it's gonna be called "Beverly Hills Cop 4: Back in Snacktion!"
Beverly Hills Klumps
Ramis on Ghostbusters 3
Who could be the new star?
In a report attributed to InFocus Magazine, and picked up by various outlets including Hollywood.com, actor-filmmaker Harold Ramis offered up some details on the long-in-development sequel, Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent. He even suggested who might take over as the star of the franchise since Bill Murray refuses to.
Ramis reportedly wants franchise vets Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis to reprise their respective roles in the sequel, which the report claims will be called Ghostbusters in Hell, but he has his eye on A-lister Ben Stiller to star as a new Ghostbuster.
The script, written by Aykroyd, is said to feature a hell that looks alot like New York City. The Ghostbusters are able to be transported into hell via a portal in a New York warehouse.
"What Danny had originally conceived was sending us to a special-effects hell, a netherworld full of phenomenal visual environments and boiling pits," Ramis revealed. "But what works so well about the first two (films) is the mundane-ness of it all. So my notion was that hell exists in the same place as our consensus reality, but it's like a film shutter. It's the darkness between the 24 frames.
Ramis continued, "So we create a device to do it, and it's in a warehouse in Brooklyn. When we step out of the chamber, it looks just like New York, but it's hell. Everything's grid-locked; no cars are moving and all the drivers are swearing at each other in different foreign languages. No two people speak the same language. It's all the worst things about modern urban life, just magnified."
'Resurrection' to appear at Easter
Picking up where the biblical story of Jesus Christ's passion leaves off, Screen Gems is angling for an Eastertime release of a feature film tentatively titled "The Resurrection," people familiar with the project confirmed Wednesday. Using the Bible for its source material, "Resurrection" will tell the story of Jesus Christ beginning the day he died on the cross and ending about 40 days later with his ascension into heaven. According to insiders, Screen Gems, headed by Clint Culpepper, commissioned a script several months ago from Lionel Chetwynd, the veteran screenwriter, producer and director whose credits include "The Hanoi Hilton" for the big screen and the Emmy-nominated TV movie "Ike: Countdown to D-Day."
Mac, you rascal!
Proyas returning to Dark City?
According to JoBlo, Australian director Alex Proyas may be eyeing a sequel to his 1998 sci-fi film "Dark City", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly and Melissa George.
It'll only happen though, if you all invest in a copy of the forthcoming special edition DVD release of the first film, he says.
"I am more and more interested in the idea of a sequel, and who knows, after the special edition comes out, with everyone's support behind it, a sequel... maybe who knows... but I've already said too much."
The film, only a moderate success upon its initial release, begins with a man (Rufus Sewell) waking in a hotel room with no memory, which soon proves to be but one of many troubles. He is being sought by police, who believe him to be a serial killer, and also by a group of strange men with psychokinetic powers. Furthermore, something appears to be wrong with the world at large: time, memory, and identity behave in unusual ways.
Granted, Proyas waxed lyrical about plans for a sequel to "I, Robot" that never came to fruition, so don't reserve you tickets for "Dark City 2" just yet.
Quote from: MacGuffin on June 23, 2006, 09:22:02 AM
Proyas returning to Dark City?
According to JoBlo, Australian director Alex Proyas may be eyeing a sequel to his 1998 sci-fi film "Dark City", starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly and Melissa George.
It'll only happen though, if you all invest in a copy of the forthcoming special edition DVD release of the first film, he says.
"I am more and more interested in the idea of a sequel, and who knows, after the special edition comes out, with everyone's support behind it, a sequel... maybe who knows... but I've already said too much."
The film, only a moderate success upon its initial release, begins with a man (Rufus Sewell) waking in a hotel room with no memory, which soon proves to be but one of many troubles. He is being sought by police, who believe him to be a serial killer, and also by a group of strange men with psychokinetic powers. Furthermore, something appears to be wrong with the world at large: time, memory, and identity behave in unusual ways.
Granted, Proyas waxed lyrical about plans for a sequel to "I, Robot" that never came to fruition, so don't reserve you tickets for "Dark City 2" just yet.
Apparently, appearing in one scene and then dying counts as a starring role these days.
One of the greatest dark comedies ever made might be heading back our way, this time in super-cool sequel form. According to Entertainment Weekly, Winona Ryder and Heathers scribe Daniel Waters are interested in producing a sequel to the hit 1989 film. Currently, the two have teamed up once again for Sex and Death 101, in which Water both wrote and directed. Ryder was quoted as saying, "There's Heathers in the real world! We have to keep going!" This might mean a possible sequel could find our characters out of high school and locked inside cubicles.
2 words maniac cop 3
3 words. read this thread.
Dean Devlin developing STARGATE sequel
Source: Sci Fi Wire
Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer of the original STARGATE, has a production deal with MGM to develop a sequel that will pick up the story from the 1994 film.
Devlin spoke to Sci Fi Wire, saying, "We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live at the end of the third sequel. So we're going to try to not tread on their stories."
"When we created the original Stargate, we always envisioned it as a trilogy, and, unfortunately, the way in which the movie got made, we didn't really have control over [it]," Devlin added. "I think it will be very exciting to actually get to go do parts two and three."
Roland Emmerich will have the opportunity to direct the film if he wants, and Devlin said both Russell and Spader seem interested in coming back.
Quote from: Mr. Joshua on July 12, 2006, 04:43:26 PM
2 words maniac cop 3 mansions 2 the day of the tentacle
god I love that game. but it's like, 8 words.
Pierce Brosnan returns for Doubtfire 2
According to Sky News, Pierce Brosnan will reprise his role as the hoity Stuart – Sally Field's prospective new man in the first film – in "Mrs Doubtfire 2".
According to star Robin Williams, he isn't taking no for an answer from the former 007 and if all goes to plan, you'll see the Irish heartthrob in the sequel, which starts filming early next year. Actress Bonnie Hunt - Williams' co-star in "Jumanji" - worked on the script.
"He was a riot in the first film and we need him for Doubtfire 2", says Williams, currently appearing in "The Night Listener", of good friend Brosnan.
The Blair Witch Pitch
Source: Moviehole
Seems the guys behind "The Blair Witch Project" – remember that little money-spinning beast? – Haven't given up on their initiative of doing a third film in the series, despite the fact that the studio that owns the BW tag isn't keen to pursue it at the moment.
Eduardo Sanchez, one half of the "Witch" team, says he's still up for returning to the world of the filmmaker-killing villainess.
"I'd love to do another, especially a prequel about Elly Kedward," he tells Fangoria. "We've given it a lot of thought and there's even a pretty good treatment, but we'll have to wait and see what the people at Lionsgate [which took over Artisan] have to say about it."
Sanchez and partner Dan Myrick approached Lionsgate a couple of years ago with their ideas for a "Blair Witch 3" but the studio weren't interested.
Morgan Creek tracking down third 'Ventura'
Morgan Creek has begun the detective work on a kooky cold case. The production company has hired Jeff Sank and brothers Jason and Justin Heimberg to write a third installment of the hit franchise "Ace Ventura." The two previous "Ventura" comedies -- 1994's "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and the following year's "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls" -- grossed more than $180 million domestically and helped establish Jim Carrey as one of the highest-paid comedy actors in Hollywood. The latest pet project is expected to center on the eccentric detective's son, who steps into his father's shoes to take over the family business.
Will there be a Gremlins 3?
"Gremlins" director Joe Dante tells Latino Review that although he's pretty confident that Warner will dust off Gizmo again, one day, he doesn't expect to be involved in any new sequel. In fact, he doesn't even want to see it.
"Well, I'm sure there will be one" says Dante, who helmed both "Gremlins" movies. " I know I won't have anything to do with it. They won't ask me".
According to Dante, he set out to make 1990's "Gremlins 2" in a way to "make sure there wouldn't be" another film, but if Warner are keen "they're welcome to it. I think what's holding it up is that they can't conceive of what to do because the first movies were defined by the technology, it was what the puppets could do and do well and not do and that's what the movies became. Now you could do anything with CGI so the field is so open that nobody could focus on what exactly it should be. I can't say I'm looking forward to seeing it."
Christian Slater returning for Heathers 2
Source: Moviehole
Now this is bound to give – well, Christian Slater's career a boost, but also – a few "Heathers" fans a fat fuzzy feeling in the thingamajing.
According to JoBlo.Com – citing Entertainment Weekly – a sequel to the 80s black comedy fave "Heathers" is as good as GO, GO GO. Winona Ryder will return, as well as – despite his untimely demise in the first film – the film's bad-boy, Christian Slater.
"I don't know how much is official; it's a ways away. But it takes place in Washington and Christian Slater agreed to come back and make an Obi-Wan-type appearance. It's very funny", said Ryder.
Daniel Waters – currently working with Ryder on "Sex and Death 101" – is involved in the sequel. He's writing it, and may also direct.
Quote from: MacGuffin on August 05, 2006, 10:42:40 AM
Pierce Brosnan returns for Doubtfire 2
According to Sky News, Pierce Brosnan will reprise his role as the hoity Stuart – Sally Field's prospective new man in the first film – in "Mrs Doubtfire 2".
According to star Robin Williams, he isn't taking no for an answer from the former 007 and if all goes to plan, you'll see the Irish heartthrob in the sequel, which starts filming early next year. Actress Bonnie Hunt - Williams' co-star in "Jumanji" - worked on the script.
"He was a riot in the first film and we need him for Doubtfire 2", says Williams, currently appearing in "The Night Listener", of good friend Brosnan.
I always love it when borat calls it womanman doubtfire.
Quote from: MacGuffin on August 05, 2006, 10:42:40 AM
Pierce Brosnan returns for Doubtfire 2
According to Sky News, Pierce Brosnan will reprise his role as the hoity Stuart – Sally Field's prospective new man in the first film – in "Mrs Doubtfire 2".
According to star Robin Williams, he isn't taking no for an answer from the former 007 and if all goes to plan, you'll see the Irish heartthrob in the sequel, which starts filming early next year. Actress Bonnie Hunt - Williams' co-star in "Jumanji" - worked on the script.
"He was a riot in the first film and we need him for Doubtfire 2", says Williams, currently appearing in "The Night Listener", of good friend Brosnan.
Ooooh I hope Chris Columbus is coming back to direct!
Seriously though, Bonnie Hunt working on the screenplay, random as that may be, is a good sign. I like her.
THE THING prequel on the way
Source: Fangoria
Studios have become savvy to the fact that it's just as profitable to go back as it is to go forward, and it appears the boys at Strike Entertainment—the same company that brought us the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, SLiTHER, and the forthcoming historical epic 300 (which looks amazing)—feel this is the key ingredient to bring THE THING back to the big screen. Fango has learned that Strike is combing Hollywood for a writer (or writers) to tackle a THING prequel. Since the production house works solely with Universal, which gave us John Carpenter's classic 1982 THING remake, this is understandable.
The gestation period on a new THING has been a long one. Since Carpenter's film—starring Kurt Russell, a bevy of amazing character actors and the timeless, inimitable special FX of Rob Bottin—overcame initial critical and public derision to become a modern classic, Universal has pondered just what to do with a property that is ripe for follow-up status. Many have stepped in to lend their two cents, beginning with Dark Horse Comics, which created a miniseries back in the early '90s that was the next best thing to getting a full-blown cinematic continuation. Then George Clooney flirted with the idea of bringing the original story, "Who Goes There?" (by John W. Campbell), to the small screen in a project similar to the black-and-white FAIL SAFE he executive-produced; then the THING video game came along; then Frank Darabont was attached to a Sci-Fi Channel original movie. Time will tell if the prequel's birth will come anytime soon; we'll keep you updated.
More Games Afoot
Helmer tapped for WarGames sequel.
The long-rumored sequel to 1983's WarGames is finally moving ahead. Stuart Gillard (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, TV's Charmed) has been hired to direct WarGames 2: The Dead Game.
The sequel will lens mid-November in Montreal. The screenplay was written by Randall M. Badat.
WarGames 2 will revolve around a teenage hacker whose world, according to ProductionWeekly.com, "gets turned upside after playing an online terrorist-attack simulator game against a government super-computer designed to profile potential terrorists. All hell breaks loose when Homeland Security is convinced that he's a terrorist intent on disrupting the fabric of society."
The John Badham-directed original – starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy and Dabney Coleman – followed a teenage computer whiz and prankster whose videogame mischief almost sparked World War III.
L.A Confidential sequel in the works
Source: Moviehole
Joe Carnahan, the talented brains behind the acclaimed thriller "Narc" (2004), has signed to direct a sequel to the 90s hit, "L.A Confidential".
"The film I'm doing next is White Jazz, the sequel to LA Confidential," Carnahan tells CHUD. "My brother and I wrote the adaptation," he said.
"That script is one of my favorites. It's heartbreaking. It's, to me, what that book always was – the point of departure from the Eisenhower 50s to the psychedelic freakshow, Manson 60s. It's a total combination of the two with a heavy, heavy voice-over narration, this kind of classic noir. I love the script, dude. I'm going to get it out there – once it's done I'm going to get it on the internet so people can read it."
Hopefully Carnanan, who also tells the site he's considering doing a remake of "Bunny Lake is Missing", actually gets to make this one – unlike the last sequel he was attached to, "Mission: Impossible III". Just months before the film was set to go into production, Carnahan walked from the Paramount pic (reportedly over creative differences with star/producer Tom Cruise).
"White Jazz", the film, has been in development hell for quite a while. At one stage, Nick Nolte was set to play the films lead character, a corrupt copper named David "Dave" Klein, and John Cusack was attached to play his partner, Junior Stemmons. Just weeks before she was arrested for shoplifting, Winona Ryder was reportedly in talks to play a role.
Murphy back for more 'Beverly Hills Cop'
Star, Paramount, di Bonaventura prepping fourth Foley film
Source:Variety
Eddie Murphy is hitting the beat for "Beverly Hills Cop IV," working with Paramount in collaring Lorenzo di Bonaventura as producer.
The new regime at Par is keen on reviving the classic action-comedy franchise, which features Murphy as detective Axel Foley.
Murphy will work closely with Par and di Bonaventura in reinvigorating and updating the once-lucrative property. Project is out to writers.
Thesp, who will next be in theaters with "Dreamgirls," has always been attached to star in the fourth installment.
The first two pics in the franchise, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and his former partner Don Simpson, did enormous box office.
"Beverly Hills Cop," released in 1984, grossed more than $234.7 million domestically and another $81 million overseas. The next installment, released in 1987, took in more than $153.6 million in the U.S. and another $146 million overseas.
The franchise ran into trouble with the release of "Beverly Hills Cop III" in 1994. Pic grossed only $44 million domestically.
Bruckheimer wasn't involved with the third entry and won't be a producer on "Beverly Hills Cop IV" considering everything else he has on his plate.
Di Bonaventura, who has a producing deal at Par, said it will be a challenge to do the fourth installment as well as the previous films.
"Axel Foley is one of the great action-comedy characters, a character that Eddie loves. I'm lucky enough to help bring it back," di Bonaventura said. "This genre is missing from the landscape."
Murphy is in post-production with "Norbit." He also reprises his voice role in the upcoming "Shrek the Third."
Quote from: MacGuffin on November 30, 2006, 12:25:42 AM
Murphy back for more 'Beverly Hills Cop'
Star, Paramount, di Bonaventura prepping fourth Foley film
Source:Variety
Eddie Murphy is hitting the beat for "Beverly Hills Cop IV," working with Paramount in collaring Lorenzo di Bonaventura as producer.
The new regime at Par is keen on reviving the classic action-comedy franchise, which features Murphy as detective Axel Foley.
Murphy will work closely with Par and di Bonaventura in reinvigorating and updating the once-lucrative property. Project is out to writers.
Thesp, who will next be in theaters with "Dreamgirls," has always been attached to star in the fourth installment.
The first two pics in the franchise, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and his former partner Don Simpson, did enormous box office.
"Beverly Hills Cop," released in 1984, grossed more than $234.7 million domestically and another $81 million overseas. The next installment, released in 1987, took in more than $153.6 million in the U.S. and another $146 million overseas.
The franchise ran into trouble with the release of "Beverly Hills Cop III" in 1994. Pic grossed only $44 million domestically.
Bruckheimer wasn't involved with the third entry and won't be a producer on "Beverly Hills Cop IV" considering everything else he has on his plate.
Di Bonaventura, who has a producing deal at Par, said it will be a challenge to do the fourth installment as well as the previous films.
"Axel Foley is one of the great action-comedy characters, a character that Eddie loves. I'm lucky enough to help bring it back," di Bonaventura said. "This genre is missing from the landscape."
Murphy is in post-production with "Norbit." He also reprises his voice role in the upcoming "Shrek the Third."
This news made my day.
Kilmer plans Genius return
Val Kilmer is reportedly set to sign up to star in a sequel to his 1985 comedy 'Real Genius'.
The 'Tombstone' star recently announced his intentions to take on more comedic roles in the future in a bid to alter his Hollywood image and take his career to a new level.
In the original 80s project Kilmer played Chris Knight, one of two brilliant teenagers who head a team of young geniuses developing a laser for what they believe is a class project and later discover that their professor intends to turn their work over to the government for use as a weapon.
No shooting schedule has been announced.
Race on as pair set 'Mad World' sequel
Source: Hollywood Reporter
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" just got a little madder.
Ed Bass, one of the producers behind "Bobby," and Karen Sharpe Kramer, the widow of "Mad World" director Stanley Kramer, have teamed to make a sequel to the comedy classic.
Titled "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD World," the film would be, like the 1963 film, a large ensemble movie mixing comics and dramatic actors. The story follows the descendants of the characters from the first movie who are thrust into another madcap chase to find a cache of money after it is revealed that the money found in the first movie was counterfeit.
Bass' relationship with the sequel began in 1991 when he produced the "Mad World" documentary "Something a Little Less Serious" with Stanley Kramer. The two began planning a sequel, but Kramer became ill, and the project was put on hold. Kramer died in 2001.
A sequel was further derailed when Paramount released 2001's "Rat Race," which had a similar concept.
Bass reconnected last year with Karen Sharpe Kramer -- who held the rights and had produced a TV remake of her husband's Western classic "High Noon" -- when making "Bobby." The Robert F. Kennedy biopic is recently nominated for a SAG Award for best ensemble as well as a Golden Globe for best motion picture drama.
"I wanted to do a follow-up to 'Bobby,' which had a one of the best casts ever assembled, and was wondering what to do next," Bass said. "Then I learned that Bobby (Kennedy) was at the premiere of 'Mad World' back in '63. I said, All right, all the signs are there."
No director is attached, and Bass and Kramer plan to finance the pic independently.
The duo want the sequel to be have an even bigger cast than the original, and they hope to involve actors from the original movie.
"Now is the time to make this picture while members of the original film can still appear in cameos," said Kramer, referring to such cast members as Jonathan Winters, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Edie Adams, Carl Reiner, Peter Falk and Jerry Lewis.
George Barris -- the car designer and car customizer behind such famed screen vehicles as the Batmobile, the Monkeemobile and KITT, the car from "Knight Rider" -- is designing cars for the movie.
Warner greenlights The Lost Boys 2
Source: Moviehole
IESB has confirmed that Warner Bros Home Video – So yeah, sorry, it's going direct to DVD – is in production on a sequel to the 80's fave, "The Lost Boys". Filming is due to begin sometime soon, in sunny San Diego.
Granted, a sequel to "The Lost Boys" – that's the vampiric actioner starring Kiefer Sutherland as a bleached-blonde bloodsucker of the night who picks a fight with the humanly Jason Patric – has been talked about for years. It doesn't sound like this sequel will take the form of any of those previously discussed ideas – including "The Lost Girls" (remember that? Britney Spears was supposedly going to play an evil chick vampire) or the "Frog Brothers" spin-off. I even heard a rumour a few years back that Joss Whedon had taken a stab at writing a sequel... back before "Buffy" picked up her dagger.
Now, if I were a betting man (My wallet's empty, so I'm not... but not by choice), I'd say "The Lost Boys 2" will be one of those in-name-only sequels. There may be a link to the original movie – maybe Corey Feldman will cameo? Or maybe someone will simply reference a character from the original film? – but personally, I think they'll just ride the coattails of the name. Which is fine with me. I love this series. I always thought there was potential here. Hopefully they come up with something refrigerator-cool.
The first of Warner's new DVD original sequels is "Dukes of Hazzard : The Beginning", which my peeps tell me is actually quite good. They got the hair colour right on Daisy Duke this time... so there's a point right there.
Jaws : Rising details online
Source: Moviehole
According to the terrific troops at Filmrot.com, "Jaws 5" – it's the one that's going direct to video, remember? – is further along than they at first suspected [and we feared].
The new film will be called "Jaws : Rising" and it's from the pen of screenwriter John Lansing (though "Fast and the Furious "Tokyo Drift" scribe Chris Morgan has been brought in to tidy it up). Lansing's back catalogue is about as extraordinary as the writing scrawled on the back of a public toilet door, but nevertheless, his experience writing action ("Renegade", "Magnum P.I") obviously convinced Universal he was capable of the job.
"Rising" will see Michael Brody, the son of the original characters , and his family moving to Amity where he'll once again encounter that human-hungry son of a bitch, Bruce. When his daughter becomes lost at sea – naturally, close to 'Jaws' - Michael is forced to team up with new Amity Chief of Police, Elgar Douglas, and local fisherman Lyle Buffet and attempt a rescue attempt.
So, um, that's "Jaws 2" by way of "Jaws" with a link to "Jaws IV", hey?
Jaws ain't the only thing that bites, eh?
L.A. Coincidental: Clooney vs. Crowe?
BREAKING NEWS: Would the real sequel to "L.A. Confidential" please step forward?
TMZ has learned that the creative team and stars from the original "L.A. Confidential" are in discussions with Twentieth Century Fox-based Regency Enterprises about reteaming for a sequel to the Oscar-winning noir script.
No doubt, their discussions will cause some consternation to Joe Carnahan ("Narc") who's already announced plans to direct his own "L.A. Confidential" sequel: An adaptation of James Ellroy's "White Jazz" with George Clooney toplining as Det. David Klein. "Jazz" is the fourth book in Ellroy's Los Angeles tetralogy. "LA Confidential" was the third, preceded by "The Black Dahlia" and "The Big Nowhere."
Insiders tell TMZ that the Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland sequel being discussed wouldn't rely on the plot of "White Jazz," but simply pick up where "L.A. Confidential" left off: With Lt. Ed Exley (originally played by Guy Pearce), a rising star in the LAPD, and Officer Bud White (originally played by Russell Crowe), now an ex-cop who lives with an ex-whore. As of last month, Pearce was being mulled for a part in "White Jazz," but he downplayed the rumors at a press conference to promote the new Andy Warhol film "Factory Girl." Indeed, in Ellroy's "White Jazz," Exley's character actually has a very small part; in Helgeland and Hanson's project, it could potentially be made far larger. No deals have been made, but the discussions are on-going.
Mad Max minus Mel
Source: Herald Sun
MAD Max could be coming back, but don't expect Mel Gibson to reprise his role in the classic Australian movie, says director George Miller.
Miller made his name with the post-apocalyptic vision of Mad Max, made in 1979, and its sequels, Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Now, fresh from winning an Oscar for his animated feature Happy Feet, Miller is planning a fourth instalment of Mad Max, with its murderous bikie gangs and bandits roaming the Australian outback.
Miller believes the star of the trilogy, Mel Gibson, is now too old and focused on his own films to want to again portray the lead character of "Mad" Max Rockatansky.
Instead, Miller hopes to secure a rising young star for the role.
The fourth Mad Max movie was in development before Miller took on directing Happy Feet, and now he's turning back to the project.
"I have a few projects in the pipeline including an animation ... but I do want to make another Mad Max movie and get stuck back into that," the 62-year-old said in Sydney today.
"It (the lead) won't be Mel. He was 21 when he made the first one, now he's a lot older and his passion is for film making and directing.
"I don't think he is into acting and I don't think he would be interested in being involved at all."
The Sydney-based filmmaker said he had managed to "come back down to earth" following his Oscar win, thanks to constructive advice from Hollywood friends including Australians Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
"I was warned not to inhale too much because you can take it a little too seriously," he said.
"We didn't expect to win, but it was a good excuse to drink, party and to act like teenagers again."
Miller was a special guest at today's 2007 Aurora film maker initiative, announcing four new feature film scripts which will be workshopped and eventually adapted to the big screen.
The initiative is an intensive script development program run by the New South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO).
One of the scripts chosen today was Mr Darwin's Shooter, the story about a friendship between a boy and a young Charles Darwin, which will be directed by acclaimed director Fred Schepisi.
"It's a very significant initiative for film makers, particularly in the case of Fred Schepisi, who have significant international careers and are desperate to make films back home," Miller said.
Three other films, Six Weeks To Heaven, Grace and Eleven Months, were also selected.
Next Powers Will Be Evil
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
Mike Myers, creator of the Austin Powers film franchise, told SCI FI Wire that he definitely wants to make another movie and will get to it after he finishes his next project, called The Love Guru. And it might focus on Austin's nemesis, Doctor Evil.
"I have figured out that the story will be taken from the point of Doctor Evil," Myers said in an interview while promoting Shrek the Third. "It will be powered from Doctor Evil's point of view." Myers added: "That will be the first of a trilogy. ... I'm just joking! ... I haven't figured it all out. Who knows?"
Doctor Evil is one of many characters Myers played in the previous Austin Powers movies. In the last one, 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember, Doctor Evil became a good guy and passed the baton of evil to his son (Seth Green).
"It takes three and a half to four years for me to do a movie, and it has to be something I'm feeling passionate about at the time, and so I may go into that after The Love Guru," Myers said. (The Love Guru is about a Canadian raised in India who becomes a guru and helps the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.)
i fear he'll ditch the keith moon project.
You do?
yup. don't you? :yabbse-grin:
i dont give a shit... go austin!
Sam Jackson Puckers Up For 'Long Kiss Goodnight' Sequel
Source: MTV
It's the year of the aging action star: Indiana Jones, John McClane...and now Mitch Henessey? Samuel L. Jackson told MTV News that he's eager to revisit the hard-drinking, fast-thinking detective he made famous in "The Long Kiss Goodnight," and is working with director Reny Harlin on a sequel to the eleven-year-old action thriller. "We sort of have a development project now for 'The Long Kiss Goodnight 2.' We're talking to writers, you know, getting it together," he announced.
The 1996 flick did middling business at the domestic box office, but has became a cult hit in the eleven years since its release. It remains one of Jackson's personal favorites, he declared. "Mitch is one of my favorite characters," Jackson enthused. "I mean, every time I pass 'The Long Kiss Goodnight' [on TV], I stop and watch it. If it's on, I stop, I watch it."
The original film followed suburban housewife Samantha Caine (Geena Davis), who, after a bump on the head, begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a top-secret assassin. And none too soon. Samantha soon finds herself in a fight for her life when old enemies track her down. She enlists the aid of Mitch to survive the onslaught, all the while getting stronger and more deadly.
But don't expect a reunion with Ms. Davis, Jackson cautioned. While she was the star of the first film, the sequel will have a fresher, and in many ways, much more sinister, female protagonist.
"Actually, we're thinking, you know, the little girl [Samantha's daughter, Caitlin] is grown up now and possibly got some skills passed onto her by her mom," Jackson said of the film's plot. "Her mom gets killed and we want to find out who did it."
So why in the world, then, does she contact Mitch? "Well, she comes to find me because I'm the only connection to her mom," Jackson said. "And I might know the people that have done that." Jackson can next be seen in "1408," a supernatural horror film starring John Cusack.
Quote from: MacGuffin on June 12, 2007, 02:13:53 PM
made famous in "The Long Kiss Goodnight,"
Oxymoron.
so, does sam jackson KNOW he's a has-been?
looks like it
Goyer eyes U's new 'Invisible' film
Grazer to produce sequel to Wells classic
Source" Variety
Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have set David Goyer to write and direct "The Invisible Man," a new take on the H.G. Wells classic. Brian Grazer will produce.
Conceived as a sequel to Wells' original tale, the story centers on a British nephew of the original Invisible Man. Once he discovers his uncle's formula for achieving invisibility, he is recruited by British intelligence agency MI5 during WWII.
"I've always been a fan of the original H.G. Wells book as well as the Universal film and felt the property was ripe for reimagining," Goyer said.
Imagine's David Bernardi and Chris Wade will be involved in a producing capacity.
Goyer, who most recently directed ghost tale "The Invisible" and "Blade: Trinity," is planning to helm the Sheldon Turner-scripted "X-Men" spinoff "Magneto" for Fox.
Quote from: MacGuffin on June 14, 2007, 01:16:58 AM
"I've always been a fan of the original H.G. Wells book as well as the Universal film and felt the property was ripe for reimagining," Goyer said.
learn from Hollow Man's example.
Daddy Day Camp
starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as Eddie Murphy
directed by Fred Savage
fact.
Bill and Ted adapt to 2007
The 1980s cult classic is being revisited for a straight-to-DVD release. Will their innocence become a casualty?
Source: Los Angeles Times
Dude, did you hear Bill and Ted are climbing back into the time machine?
No way!
Yes way.
MGM is developing a straight-to-DVD revisiting of the late-'80s cult classic "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" for producer Frank Mancuso Jr. at 360 Pictures. Although their deal is still being worked out, writers Gabe Grifoni and Suzanne Francis ("Wieners") have already turned in an outline for an updated take on San Dimas' most excellent native sons.
(Insert air guitar trill here.)
But is there still an audience for Bill and Ted's pre-culture-of-irony straightforwardness and unshakable positivity in a world that has since given us "Wayne's World," "Dumb and Dumber," "Dude, Where's My Car?" and "South Park"? Or will the boys be Stiflerized for today's market?
Several attempts at a spinoff TV series in the early '90s, one animated and one live action, misread the boys' appeal — no matter what your memory tells you, they weren't actually stoners, surfers or Valley dudes — and sparked cries of betrayal from devoted fans who felt that the sensibility of the original films' writers, Ed Solomon ("Levity") and Chris Matheson ("Mr. Wrong"), had been corrupted.
While in UCLA's film school 20 years ago, Solomon and Matheson would rent a stage on Sunset Boulevard for $20 and crack each other up by improvising the two lovable doofuses. The two "Bill & Ted" films — the sequel was "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" in 1991 — then became their first feature credits.
More than a decade later, they actually tried to get a third "Bill & Ted" feature made, with the idea of checking in with the guys as middle-aged men. Actors Keanu Reeves (Ted "Theodore" Logan) and Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, Esq.), now both in their 40s, were reportedly game until Reeves' manager advised his client, by then a major movie star (although still on-screen climbing in and out of phone booths), against revisiting the material.
Solomon and Matheson, who have only recently re-teamed for the comedy "NowhereLand," now in pre-production at Paramount, were not asked to participate in the new film.
"We loved Bill and Ted," says Solomon. "They were created out of complete innocence. We had a lot of fun with them, and we wish them well."
Let's hope they retain that innocence. As the boys would say: Be excellent to each other.
How many sequels are too many?
As this summer's slate of sequels marches on, Hollywood is planning even more installments of their biggest franchises.
With an indefinite number of future "Spider-Man" movies on tap and an 11th "Star Trek" coming next year, how many sequels are enough?
"The marketplace decides," says Tom Ortenberg, president of Lions Gate, which will release "Saw IV" in October and bring back Sylvester Stallone next year in "John Rambo." "If the marketplace is there to support it, you find a way to get it done."
"In such a crowded marketplace, being able to break through the clutter is half the battle," he says. "Sequels, already branded, make it that much easier to break through that clutter with a title that is already familiar to consumers."
By the end of August, 14 sequels will have passed through movie theaters, many of them exiting with bags of money in tow. "Spider-Man 3" has grossed more than $335 million, "Shrek the Third" $318 million and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" $304 million. All three have combined for over $1.5 billion overseas.
Since the days of Aristotle, the number 3 has been considered the most perfect figure in dramatic arts. But studios still find it hard to decline potential fortunes for the sake of a trilogy's neat narrative structure.
A fourth "Shrek" film is scheduled for 2010. Jeffrey Katzenberg, chief executive of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., recently said a fifth will follow.
There are no current plans for another "Pirates" film, but Johnny Depp has indicated he's open to it. Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have said with certainty that "Spider-Man" will be back, but writer-director Sam Raimi and stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst have voiced reluctance to continue.
"I know there'll be a `Spider-Man 4, 5 and 6,'" Raimi said earlier this year. "I just won't be the guy that'll probably write the story, because I've got to clear my head."
Instead, Raimi has been linked to "The Hobbit," a film based on J.R.R. Tolkien's prelude to the "Lord of the Rings" series. Peter Jackson, who directed the well-planned "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is suing New Line Cinema over profits from "Rings," complicating plans for "The Hobbit."
It wasn't always like this.
"`Sequel' was a dirty word," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "They were seen as an exploitive way to capitalize on a brand name recognition of a popular movie by making the same movie and putting a `2' behind it."
Dergarabedian recalls feeling a shift when 1999's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" made more money in its first weekend than the original made in its entire theatrical run. Now, sequels don't ride the coattails of the original so much as they gain momentum, swelling into larger and larger behemoths with each progressive installment.
But how long will audiences keep paying to see the same franchise? Part of the trick is to make the old seem new again.
"John Rambo" carefully avoids what would be an unappealing "IV." Stallone did the same earlier this year with "Rocky Balboa," the sixth "Rocky" film.
Both are part of what might be called nostalgic sequels. Included in the trend is the recently released "Live Free or Die Hard," the fourth installment in the "Die Hard" series, a dozen years after its last. There's even a planned sequel to "Alien vs. Predator," which itself was based on old franchises. "Alien vs. Predator 2" is scheduled for release this Christmas.
The most anticipated of nostalgic sequels is the as-yet-titled fourth "Indiana Jones." Currently shooting, the new "Indiana Jones" struggled for years to line up everything before beginning production with Harrison Ford starring and Steven Spielberg directing. Sean Connery declined to participate.
There have even been rumblings of a fourth "Ocean's" movie following this summer's "Ocean's Thirteen." Opening Aug. 3 is "The Bourne Ultimatum," and while it's based on Robert Ludlum's third and final "Bourne" novel, author Eric Van Lustbader recently picked up the series, writing two more "Bourne" books.
A spokesman for NBC Universal said that "Ultimatum" concludes the questions posed by the first chapter of Jason Bourne's adventures, "with the potential for continuation remaining open."
"Transformers," which was based on the `80s toys and animated TV show, has grossed over $223 million in two weeks and seems destined for at least one sequel. Martin Levy, a marketing executive at DreamWorks (which co-produced the movie with Paramount), says: "It's a very logical thing to think that we can look forward to another one."
Whether the source material is serialized or not is an important part of the sequel craze. "Harry Potter" came tailor-made for a seven-part franchise, with a film based on each book. The fifth movie, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," has made over $139.7 million since opening last week.
Kevin Feige, president of production at Marvel Studios, believes the recent popularity of sequels is because many are based on "ongoing sagas." Marvel, which holds the rights to many of the most popular comic book characters, is well situated to draw from its extensive library for franchise sequels.
Feige says another "X-Men" film is possible and that spin-offs for Wolverine and Magneto are in the works. A third "Fantastic Four" following this summer's "Rise of the Silver Surfer" edition is also possible, and Feige says a Silver Surfer stand-alone script has been "moved to the forefront" of discussions.
"There's always stuff that ends up in our back pocket or that we put to the side in our if-we-should-be-so-lucky-next-time folder," says Feige of Marvel's comic book source material. "It's not difficult finding which storylines or characters we're going to use in one of our films. It's difficult deciding which ones not to use."
In this way, "Spider-Man," "Harry Potter" and "Batman" (the seventh of which will be released next year) have more in common with a serial like the James Bond films (based on Ian Fleming's novels) than "Police Academy."
Peter Bart, editor-in-chief of the daily Hollywood trade paper Variety, credits the studios for improving the quality of their franchise sequels.
"The studios have learned how to win at this business," says Bart. "They've picked the right subjects and understood how to exploit them internationally."
But as the sequel numbers pile up, Bart says, the studios are moving into "new waters." Every time they go back to the well, the riskier it gets to depend on the same franchises.
"The big question," he says," is how long will they endure?"
Warners, McFarlane return to 'Oz'
Olson to write revisionist take on Baum books
Source: Variety
Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures are teaming on "Oz," a revisionist take on the L. Frank Baum books that hatched "The Wizard of Oz."
Project was acquired based on an idea by Todd McFarlane that was fleshed out and pitched by Josh Olson ("A History of Violence").
Olson will write and McFarlane will produce with Thunder Road's Basil Iwanyk. Rick Benattar ("Shoot 'Em Up") is exec producer.
Conversations with McFarlane and Olson make it clear that they are still working out the tone of the film. They have plenty to work with. WB has owned the rights to the original "The Wizard of Oz" since buying Ted Turner's empire, whose assets included the film and other plum titles in the MGM library. There are also 15 novels in the Oz series written by Baum, most in the public domain.
McFarlane has a vision of Oz that is a dark, edgy and muscular PG-13, without a singing Munchkin in sight. That was clear with a toy line he launched several years ago that featured a buxom Dorothy and Toto reimagined as an oversized snarling warthog. Olson has something a little tamer, and PG, in mind.
"I saw those toys, and Dorothy as some bondage queen isn't something I want to do," Olson told Daily Variety. "The appealing thing about the Baum books to me is how wildly imaginative they are. There are crazy characters from amazing places. I want this to be 'Harry Potter' dark, not 'Seven' dark."
Both McFarlane and Olson are on the same page when it comes to the promise of marrying the Baum story with benefits of visual effects advancements.
"My pitch was 'How do we get people who went to 'Lord of the Rings' to embrace this?' " McFarlane said. "I want to create (an interpretation) that has a 2007 wow factor. You've still got Dorothy trapped in an odd place, but she's much closer to the Ripley from 'Alien' than a helpless singing girl."
Olson was keeping plot specifics to himself but said the film will be closer to a sequel than a remake.
"We still want to take advantage of the first film, which might be the most beloved of all time, and rely on its place in your cultural memory to bubble beneath the surface," Olson said. "A lot of the plot is mine, but the characters are all Baum."
McFarlane, a former Marvel Comics animator who created "Spawn," is working on several producing projects, such as Paramount's "The Torso," which has David Fincher attached to direct. McFarlane is producing with Bill Mechanic and Don Murphy.
Fast and Furious 4
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in negotiations to reunite for the fourth installment of Universal's Fast and the Furious franchise. Justin Lin and Chris Morgan, who were behind Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, are returning to directing and writing duties, respectively.
Neal Moritz will produce the as-yet-untitled installment along with Diesel, who will produce through his One Race Films banner.
The story line is being kept under wraps, but fast cars are involved. A spring start is anticipated with shooting in Los Angeles, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
The first Furious, released in 2001, was a surprise hit, grossing more than $144 million and creating a franchise for the studio while making stars our of Diesel and Walker. Only Walker returned for the sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and sat out the third installment, 2005's Tokyo Drift. That movie had relative newcomer Lucas Black in the driver's seat but did feature Diesel in a cameo at the end of the movie.
What about Fright Night II? In the spirit of Halloween, I am seeking this movie out. How awful is it? I used to love it when I was a kid. I remember the creature effects being AWESOME.
But like everything that I loved as a kid, it either turns out to be awful, or way too old for me.
Quote from: Stefen on October 04, 2007, 10:33:45 AM
What about Fright Night II? In the spirit of Halloween, I am seeking this movie out. How awful is it? I used to love it when I was a kid. I remember the creature effects being AWESOME.
But like everything that I loved as a kid, it either turns out to be awful, or way too old for me.
Well, it sure isn't as good as the first.
After seeing the original, I bought the sequel off ebay. I think I paid less than $20, which was fine with me compaired to the price some copies were going for.
I didn't mind that it was a shitty, full-screen transfer so much as it was just a mediocre movie all around - especially when placed against the original.
But for nostalgia and Halloween's sake, seek it out... just don't put too much effort or money into it.
I didn't pay for it. I DLed it off of Mininova.
Both of them actually, but I saw the orig. a couple years ago.
yeah fright night 2 is pretty terrible. the best bit (for me) being Jon Gries who played wolfman from monster squad also playing a werewolf here.
Director set for 'Wolves' sequel
Simon Wincer signs on to 'The Holy Road'
Source: Variety
Simon Wincer has signed on to direct "The Holy Road" -- a sequel to "Dances With Wolves" -- for Moonstone, Amicus Entertainment and Double Eagle Films.
Film, which is being presented to international buyers at AFM, is penned by Michael Blake, who wrote the screenplay for "Wolves" as well as the two novels on which the two films are based.
Story picks up 11 years after "Wolves" as the Comanche tribe is in steady decline and the threat of white settlers looms. The title "Holy Road" refers to the transcontinental railroad, which is a symbol of the clash of civilizations.
Wincer most recently helmed the Steven Spielberg-produced Emmy winner "Into the West." He also directed the Western miniseries "Lonesome Dove."
De Bont to direct "Point Break" follow-up
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Seventeen years after "Point Break" hit theaters, surf's up for the sequel, "Point Break: Indo," with Jan de Bont aboard to direct.
Kathryn Bigelow's original, starred de Bont's "Speed" lead, Keanu Reeves, as an FBI agent casing a gang of surfer bank robbers. The follow-up, which will shoot in Singapore and Southeast Asia, will take place 20 years after the disappearance of one of the criminal surfers (Patrick Swayze).
Both the original and sequel are written by W. Peter Iliff. Plot details and possible character reprises have not been disclosed.
Ferrell and McKay developing 'Anchorman 2'
Jul 23, 2008, 06:42 AM | by Nicole Sperling
Ron Burgundy fans rejoice! It looks like Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, the brains behind Anchorman, are ready to put the sexist, freewheeling newscaster back in the anchor chair. McKay tells EW.com that he and Ferrell have begun work on a sequel that could jump ahead a decade to the '80s. (We can see it now: Ron discovers hair mousse.) DreamWorks says it hasn't yet talked to the duo, but that doesn't mean Ferrell and McKay aren't dreaming up inappropriate new plots. "The audience will now allow us to do even crazier stuff," McKay says, "and that's really all we're looking for in our careers."
Gibson and Glover Up for Lethal Weapon 5?
Source: ComingSoon
Hollywood tracking board TrackingB.com reports that Shane Black, who wrote the first Lethal Weapon movie, has written a spec script for Lethal Weapon 5 without telling anyone. The site adds that he contacted franchise producer Joel Silver and said that he wanted to continue the story.
This time, homicidal Riggs (Mel Gibson) is about to retire, but pulls Murtaugh (Danny Glover) out of retirement to solve one final case, before they both officially head off into the sunset.
TrackingB.com says that Gibson and Glover are down to return, but no deals have been signed.
The first film was released in 1987, the second in 1989, the third in 1992 and the fourth in 1998.
i just want to see Riggs call one of the female officers sugar tits.
Congratulations, it's a little Focker
By Steven Zeitchik; Hollywood Reporter
It looks like "Little Fockers" is finally coming of age.
The long-gestating third installment of the comedy franchise is maturing quickly at Universal — but with new parents.
John Hamburg has been brought on to write the screenplay after Larry Stuckey penned an earlier draft.
The Endeavor-repped Hamburg is a Ben Stiller collaborator who did drafts on "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers" and worked with the star on "Along Came Polly." He also wrote and directed the comedy "I Love You, Man," set for release next month via Paramount.
Meanwhile, Jay Roach, who of course directed the first two films and had been loosely attached to direct this one, will not helm the picture. The hyphenate is concentrating on the comic romp "Dinner for Schmucks" for DreamWorks and Parkes/Bowles and only will produce "Fockers."
Producers instead are out to a handful of top comedy directors and hope to close a deal imminently.
Among the candidates said to be in the running are comedy veteran Paul Weitz, who wrote and directed "In Good Company" and co-wrote and co-directed "About a Boy"; the quirky-comedy figure David Wain, writer-director of cult pic "Wet Hot American Summer" and Universal's male-buddy hit "Role Models"; and Peyton Reed, who directed the current Jim Carrey starrer "Yes Man."
After some slowed momentum, Universal and Tribeca Prods. are, sources said, moving forward quickly on the project, with an eye toward shooting as early as summer or fall.
On the casting side, Stiller, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson — the last of whom had unrelated small parts in the first two pics as an ex-fiance and a minister, respectively, but could have an expanded role here — are in negotiations to star in "Fockers."
The "Fockers" franchise of course stars Stiller as a liberal, do-no-right husband and De Niro as his conservative, unforgiving father-in-law. "Little Fockers" is expected to revolve around the children of Stiller and Teri Polo, who plays his wife.
The property has provided a reliable cash infusion for Universal, with the first two pics earning more than $800 million worldwide.
But after the sequel "Meet the Fockers" came out in 2004, development encountered some hiccups. The "Little Fockers" project was announced two years ago with Roach protege Stuckey writing the script but until recently had not gained sufficient traction to move forward. Now? A baby may finally be on the way.
OH MY GOD THE PUNS IN THAT ARTICLE!!! THE PUNSSSSSSS MY GOD THE PUNSSSSSSS!!
http://www.cinematical.com/2009/03/12/cinematical-seven-way-late-sequels/
Winona Ryder to star in 'Heathers 2,' has nothing better to do
Source: Los Angeles Times
Yes, there will be a sequel to the 1988 cult dark comedy "Heathers," starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
But from what little we've heard so far, it sounds pretty dreadful.
Ryder is pretty excited, because it means appearing in a follow-up to the film that made her famous oh-so-many years ago.
She tells Us Magazine:
"Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in the works. I swear to God. But for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman don't want to talk about it.
"I've been wanting to do a sequel forever. There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character."
An Obi-Wan character? Are they high?
Quote from: MacGuffin on June 02, 2009, 11:40:19 PM
Winona Ryder to star in 'Heathers 2,' has nothing better to do
Source: Los Angeles Times
Yes, there will be a sequel to the 1988 cult dark comedy "Heathers," starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
But from what little we've heard so far, it sounds pretty dreadful.
Ryder is pretty excited, because it means appearing in a follow-up to the film that made her famous oh-so-many years ago.
She tells Us Magazine:
"Whatever you hear, there is a sequel in the works. I swear to God. But for some reason the writer Dan Waters and director Michael Lehman don't want to talk about it.
"I've been wanting to do a sequel forever. There is a story, and Christian [Slater] has agreed to come back as a kind of Obi-Wan character."
An Obi-Wan character? Are they high?
People forget how strange the first film was when it was released. i'm sure on paper a lot of it seemed almost stupid. so i say the more washed up this premise sounds, the better chance it has to live up to the heart of the first one and actually be good. fuck ya make him an obi-wan character, because it sounds like the worst idea ever, but if it was pulled off it might just be the quirk they need.
Robert Downey Jr. May Sink His Teeth Into Anne Rice Series 'The Vampire Chronicles' As Lestat
Source: MTV
This is double-take-worthy news. Hell, it's late. Go take yourself a triple.
Robert Downey Jr. is in "close talks" with Universal Pictures to play blood-sucker Lestat Du Lioncourt in a big screen return for Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles," according to a report at Bloody Disgusting. It should be noted that there's no attribution for the news, though BD has a good track record with scoops.
Downey would be the third actor to wear Lestat's fangs after Stuart Townsend, in "Queen of the Damned" (2003), and, perhaps most famously, Tom Cruise in "Interview with the Vampire" (1994). There's no word yet on how the planned return to Rice's fiction will approach the story, with or without the "Iron Man" star.
Speaking of the armored superhero, between that franchise and Downey's upcoming role in "Sherlock Holmes," he's building up quite an assortment of leading man roles. Lestat would certainly be a huge win, though he'd have Cruise's memorable "Interview" performance to top. Personally, I think Downey could do it.
The outstanding success of "Twilight" no doubt played a part in looking back to Rice's material. Vampires are huge and it was only a matter of time. Gary Oldman had better watch out-- Bram Stoker may be next. Whether or not Downey moves forward as Lestat, it looks like we're going to see more of Rice's enduring character in theaters again very soon.
Fox, Sony TV look to revive 'Heathers'
Mark Rizzo, Jenny Bicks to adapt 1989 film
Source: Variety
Dear Diary: Fox is developing a contemporary take on the 1989 Christian Slater/Winona Ryder feature "Heathers."
Dark comedy will be adapted for TV by scribe Mark Rizzo, with an assist from "Sex and the City" alum Jenny Bicks. Sony Pictures TV, where Bicks is based, will produce, along with Lakeshore Entertainment, which holds the rights to "Heathers."
Rizzo is still kicking around ideas on how to update "Heathers" 20 years after the film became a favorite among the underground set. But the characters from the movie are all expected to be there -- Veronica Sawyer (played in the movie by Ryder), J.D. (Slater) and the "Heathers."
The original movie revolved around Veronica as she navigates a clique of mean girls -- all named Heather -- and rebels after meeting J.D., the new guy at school. Soon, the Heathers start "accidentally" dying at the hands of Veronica and J.D., who cover up the deaths by faking them as suicides. Ryder's character chronicles her teen angst and the rising body count with regular diary entries.
The idea for a "Heathers" revival came from inside UTA, where reps for Rizzo and Bicks decided the title was ripe for revival and contacted Lakeshore about potentially dusting off the franchise.
For Lakeshore, the project, which is in the script stage at Fox, reps its introduction to the world of TV.
"We had the title, and talked about doing a film remake at times," said Lakeshore prexy Gary Lucchesi. "But doing it for TV seemed like a fresh and original idea."
Rizzo is onboard to write and exec produce, while Bicks is a nonwriting exec producer. Lucchesi and Lakeshore's Tom Rosenberg will also exec produce.
Rizzo's credits include the pilot "Zip," which was developed twice at NBC, while Bicks is also known for "Men in Trees" and "Leap of Faith" and has also been adapting "Washingtonienne" for HBO.
The original "Heathers" pic was directed by Michael Lehmann and penned by Daniel Waters. Other stars included Shannen Doherty.
'Bad Boys 3' in the works
Peter Craig will write the screenplay
THR.COM
Columbia Pictures is developing a third installment of the high-octane "Bad Boys" franchise, tapping Peter Craig to pen the screenplay.
The hope is to have a script that would reunite director Michael Bay, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. At this point, with the project in the early stages, none has a deal to return.
The "Boys" movies feature Smith and Lawrence as Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett, caught up in cases involving car chases and explosions.
The first "Boys," released in 1995, helped launch Bay as a director and Smith as an action star even though it was not a fire-stamped blockbuster -- it grossed $66 million domestically and $141 million worldwide.
The sequel, released in 2003 when Bay and Smith's stars had risen, grossed $138 million domestically and $273 million worldwide.
All parties have expressed a willingness to return if a story can be hammered out. One potential hurdle, however, would be the costly deals with the players.
Craig, repped by CAA and Management 360, co-wrote "The Town," which Ben Affleck is directing for Warner Bros. and which shoots in Boston next month. He is adapting anime "Cowboy Bebop" for 20th Century Fox and Keanu Reeves.
ive never seen 1 or 2 complete, when I started watching them I turned them off because I coudn't take that much shit on the screen, and I like will smith but the other guy is pretty worthless, can't remember a good movie of him.
MTV prepping pilot for Teen Wolf series
Source: SciFiWire
MTV, once known as "Music Television" due its actually playing "music" on "television", is moving forward in the development of a new series based on the 1985 high school lycanthropy comedy Teen Wolf and has ordered a pilot, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The 1985 film starred Michael J. Fox as a teen basketball player who discovers, along with the other bodily changes associated with adolescence, that he's a werewolf. The movie was co-written by Jeph Loeb, who'd go on to be a writer and producer on shows like Smallville, Lost and Heroes.
In a world dominated by rehashes and remakes, a Teen Wolf series is especially noteworthy in that the "original" was a re-hash of the 1950s creature feature I Was a Teenage Werewolf starring Little House's Michael Landon.
According to MTV exec Liz Gateley, the series will be "...a dramatic thriller with two best friends in the center who provide a great comedy element: They are two very relatable characters on the outer circles of popular cliques."
'Vacation' sequel booked at New Line
Source: Hollywood Reporter
New Line is going on a "Vacation."
The Warner Bros. division is developing a sequel of sorts to the 1983 comedy classic, with David Dobkin attached to produce and possibly direct.
New Line is meeting with writers to write the script but the take is already developed: the story focuses on Rusty Griswold, the son of Clark Griswold, the protagonists of the initial movies and portrayed by Chevy Chase. The younger Griswold is now a father in his own right and takes his family on a road trip vacation.
The characters would acknowledge that first trip, making the movie more of a sequel than a reboot.
Chase and Beverly D'Angelo, who played the mom in the original movies, will have room to make appearances as grandparents, providing a sense of continuity, though no deals are in place.
The original "Vacation" is a Warner Bros. property but as soon as New Line became part of the studio, exec Sam Brown began sifting through the parent company's titles to see what was available in terms of rights. He eventually found "Vacation," a movie he has watched more than any other in his life, and brought it to New Line president Toby Emmerich and production president Richard Brener, who jumped at the possibilities. The duo asked Warner brass if it had any plans with the title. It did not and the New Line execs persuaded the brass to let them take a crack at it. Brown is shepherding for New Line.
National Lampoon is no involved at this stage, as Warners controls the characters and the title.
New Line is taking meetings with writers this week, hoping to make a movie that skews more towards "Planes Trains and Automobiles" or "Little Miss Sunshine" than "RV" or "Are We There Yet?"
"Vacation" brings CAA-repped Dobkin back in business with New Line, for whom he directed and produced "Wedding Crashers."
Pine Beaming Up Jack Ryan Role?
By: Mike Fleming; Variety
UPDATE: Paramount confirmed this story late Tuesday, and in a statement, Paramount Film Group president Adam Goodman said: "Tom Clancy created an unforgettable character with Jack Ryan. With Chris in this role, we've taken our first step in creating a re-boot that lives up to the successful lineage of the franchise."
Pine is positioned to topline his second Par franchise. He played James T. Kirk in "Star Trek," the JJ Abrams-directed summer hit, and will reprise in the sequel.
Pine is separately in talks to team with director D.J. Caruso in the Paramount drama "The Art of Making Money," early next year.
Talks are just getting underway, but Pine is expected to come aboard the Jack Ryan film as the project takes shape. The studio and producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mace Neufeld are working with a script draft by Hossein Amini, based on an original concept. They are still in deep development and it is unclear whether Pine would make another "Star Trek" before the Jack Ryan film. He will clearly be working often for Paramount over the next several years.
Pine, currently starring with Denzel Washington in the Tony Scott-directed "Unstoppable" for Fox, is vying to be the fourth actor to play Ryan, the CIA analyst in the Par film series.
Alec Baldwin originated the character in 1990's "The Hunt for Red October," Harrison Ford played him in 1992's "Patriot Games" and 1994's "Clear and Present Danger," and Ben Affleck played Ryan in 2002's "The Sum of All Fears."
New Line ready for another 'Vacation'
Studio updating franchise family film saga
Source: Variety
New Line is booking a reboot of its "Vacation" franchise and has tapped Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley to write the newest incarnation.
Property, which started with the 1983 Chevy Chase starrer, spawned three sequels that followed the Griswold family on holiday.
The latest project, which will no longer carry the National Lampoon credit, is being described as more of an update than a sequel and will be closer in tone to "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" than the previous chapters. Story will focus on Rusty Griswold, now a grown man, who decides to take his own wife and kids on a road trip to Wally World before it closes forever. Chase is expected to reprise his role as Clark Griswold, now a grandfather.
"Wedding Crashers" helmer David Dobkin is producing the new pic.
Sam Brown and Dave Neustadter are overseeing for New Line.
"Vacation" marks Goldstein and Daley's fourth project at New Line in 2½ years. Most recently, they did an overhaul of "Horrible Bosses," about three friends who resolve to kill their employers. Seth Gordon ("King of Kong") is directing. Duo are rewriting "Burt Wonderstone" about a prominent Vegas magician who falls from grace, and they sold original spec "The $40,000 Man" to the company in 2007. In addition, they are penning another original, "Cal of the Wild," for DreamWorks.
Thanks, Sleepless -- thanks alot.
JERK!
Universal taking another 'Midnight Run'
Robert De Niro will produce and star in comedy sequel
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Universal and Robert De Niro are getting ready for another run.
The studio is developing a sequel to "Midnight Run," the 1988 action comedy that starred De Niro as a bounty hunter who must bring back an embezzler, played by Charles Grodin, across the country.
Timothy Dowling, the writer behind Universal's comedy "Role Models," is being brought on board to pen the script that would bring back De Niro's character, Jack Walsh, and pair him with a younger comedic foil.
"Run," while not a huge hit, was well-recieved by critics, even as it pushed the f-word count to new heights. The movie is also a touchstone for execs on road movies as well as thriller-comedies.
Although several made-for-TV movies were made as sequels -- without the original stars -- De Niro began to seriously consider a sequel during his recent "Little Fockers" shoot.
De Niro will produce with Tribeca Films partner Jane Rosenthal.
Dowling, repped by CAA and Mosaic, also worked on the upcoming comedies "She's Out of My League" and the Tom Cruise-starrer "Knight and Day." Dowling broke into the biz by penning the satire short "George Lucas in Love."
Smith and Jones signed on for Men in Black III 3-D
Source: SciFi Wire
That proposed third Men in Black movie is rumored to be moving forward, with both Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones signed up and a script in the works. And it's in 3-D.
That's the report on Showbiz 411;
Director Barry Sonnenfeld tells me that "Men in Black 3-D" is ready to roll. Will Smith has signed on, Tommy Lee Jones is in, and a script is awaited.
Yes. I did say 3D. "Men in Black 3? will be in 3D. Sonnenfeld says it is so.
No details on the plot, but sounds like the gang is back to fight threats from beyond the stars by summer of next year. Stay tuned!
oh my god i totally missed that midnight run post by mac. holy shit i love that movie, and hope they do it justice.
'Anchorman' Director: 'Anchorman 2' Is Dead
San Diego will have to stay classy without more Will Ferrell.
After reports that the star-studded cast of "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" had cut their pay rates to make way for a sequel, director Adam McKay has declared the film dead.
"So bummed. Paramount basically passed on Anchorman 2. Even after we cut our budget down. We tried," he Tweeted on Thursday.
He added a few hours later that the project won't be moving elsewhere.
"To all who asked: no we can't do Anchorman 2 at another studio. Paramount owns it," he Tweeted.
Earlier this week, McKay told MTV News that the cast -- which also included Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, and Steve Carell - was back on board and that the sequel could start shooting in 2011 once a budget had been agreed to.
"Steve and Paul and everyone agreed to cut their price to come and do it, which you don't see very often in Hollywood -- and cut their price substantially," McKay told MTV News. "But even with that, it's just a budgetary thing with Paramount in terms of how much they'll give us to make it."
The 2004 original was the first film in the partnership between the director and funnyman Ferrell, which has gone on to produce further comedies including "Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," "Step Brothers," and YouTube-style Web site FunnyorDie.com. The pair will collaborate next in the film "The Other Guys," due in August.
While "Anchorman" earned $85 million during its theatrical release, the oddball comedy about a '70s newscaster became a cult classic on DVD.
great!
one less flick tnt won't be playing ad nauseum.
Skip Woods, Fox making John McClane die hard one more time (exclusive)
Source: Hollywood Reporter
John McClane's string of bad luck may not yet be over.
"Hitman" screenwriter Skip Woods is in negotiations with Fox to take a crack at a new "Die Hard" script. The New York cop known for consistently being in the wrong place at the right time has already survived four run-ins with terrorists, traitors and psychotic loose cannons of one stripe or another.
In his last outing, "Live Free or Die Hard," written by Mark Bomback and directed by Len Wiseman in 2007, McClane battled Web terrorists to $378 million in worldwide grosses — 20 years after first pitching Hans Gruber out a broken window at Fox towers. So the studio justifiably sees another installment as a strong bet.
There's no word yet on the new project's story line, but former Fox exec Alex Young ("Unstoppable") is producing.
The CAA-repped Woods has already co-written several tentpole projects for Fox, including "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and the forthcoming TV adaptation "The A-Team." He also wrote the original screenplay for "Swordfish."
McClane himself, the CAA-repped Bruce Willis, has several projects moving toward release — Sylvester's Stallone's "The Expendables" and the Summit actioner "Red" — and then a late-summer production start on the Lionsgate video game adaptation "Kane & Lynch."
After that, he's free again to dig out the stubble, filthy T-shirt and beleaguered wisecracks.
ThePlaylist did one of these. Got most of em.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/09/necessary-or-unnecessary-belated.html
Paramount's 'Top Gun' sequel takes shape
Report: Tom Cruise eyed for role, Bruckheimer may produce
Source: THR
Viacom's Paramount Pictures has made offers to producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott for a sequel to their cult classic "Top Gun," with Christopher McQuarrie eyed to update the script, New York magazine's Vulture blog reported.
Tom Cruise is expected to make an appearance as Maverick, the report said.
David Ellison, the 27-year-old son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a trained aerobatic pilot, is a key driver of the project, according to Vulture.
He recently raised $350 million to finance films and struck a first-look deal with Paramount. The first of their film collaborations will be "Mission: Impossible 4," starring Cruise.
One second you're an awesome pilot and doing flips and shit in the air and the next you're in a pyramid scheme with Tom Cruise.
I gotta admit when I read that article, I got a little McQuarrie eyed
Doesn't matter what director or writer becomes attached, a ridiculous sense of gratification will have to adorn the action sequences to make them feel up to standard with other action movies today. The original feels like it is from another lifetime.
Noam Murro To Helm "Die Hard 5"
By Garth Franklin
Source: Dark Horizons
Friday February 11th 2011 10:38PM
Noam Murro To Helm "Die Hard 5"
Noam Murro is set to direct the fifth installment in the "Die Hard" film franchise for 20th Century Fox says The Hollywood Reporter.
The choice is a very unexpected one. Murro is an acclaimed commercials director who has won the Cannes Gold Lion and DGA director of the year award for his work in that field.
In movies however, his sole directing credit is Miramax's "Smart People", a comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker that opened to poor reviews and even poorer box-office.
Bruce Willis will return As John McClane in thefilm which Skip Woods ("The A-Team," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine") was said to be penning the script for, though reports emerged earlier today that the studio isn't happy with said script and is starting over from scratch with a whole new story.
Gremlins Reboot Could Be In The Works
Source: Cinema Blend
You better start remembering those three very important rules because it looks as though Hollywood feels ready for a return to the Gremlins universe.
Sources have told the folks over at Vulture that Warner Bros. Pictures has begun having discussions with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment to talk about the possibility of creating a reboot of the horror comedy classic. The franchise began in 1984 with Joe Dante's original, which was followed by a sequel in 1990. The movies feature cute little creates called Mogwai that come with three important rules: never expose it to sunlight, never get it wet and never feed it after midnight. When these rules are broken, however, prepare for some chaos.
The idea of rebooting Gremlins is not a new one and Vulture says that what's really been holding up another movie is the idea of getting Spielberg involved, which has "always proved too daunting a financial prospect." While that very well could end up being the same issue that occurs with this effort, people close to the situation say it could work out this time. Should he become involved the Oscar winning director would merely produce, not direct (just like he did with the originals). The article doesn't mention if Dante has been approached in any way.
Shouldn't that go in that "Remake Remake Fucking Remake" thread? Or is it time to reboot that thread?
More Alien Mayhem: Two 'Independence Day' Sequels Announced
Source: Yahoo
If a movie is a solid hit, the studio usually sets up a deal for the sequel in a matter of weeks. But it's been nearly seventeen years since "Independence Day" became a box office blockbuster, and confirmed beyond a doubt that Will Smith was bankable star. Director Roland Emmerich has taken a while to get to work on a follow-up, but now he's making up for lost time - he's announced that not one but two "Independence Day" sequels are in the works.
Emmerich, who caused all sorts of mayhem in Washington D.C. in "Independence Day," is doing it again this summer when his thriller "White House Down" opens on June 28 (by which time, Emmerich and Columbia Pictures are probably hoping you've forgotten all about "Olympus Has Fallen"). While doing press for "White House Down," Emmerich spoke a bit about the upcoming "ID4" sequels, "ID Forever Part I" and "ID Forever Part II."
Emmerich's statements suggest the long gestation period for the sequels has been built into the story, which will take place about two decades after the events of the first movie. By this time, word from the alien invaders has gotten back to their home planet, and knowing that their advance force has been defeated, another band of ill-mannered spacemen are on their way to conquer the Earth. "We've rebuilt," Emmerich said. "But (the aliens) also do different things."
"The humans knew that one day the aliens would come back," Emmerich said. "And they know that the only way you can really travel in space is through wormholes. So for the aliens, it could take two or three weeks, but for us that's 20 or 25 years."
Emmerich also mentioned the invaders may be fighting against their own technology. "It's a changed world," he said. "It's like parallel history. (Humans) have harnessed all this alien technology. We don't know how to duplicate it because it's organically-grown technology, but we know how to take an antigravity device and put it in a human airplane."
And while some of the heroes from the first movie will be back, expect plenty of new heroes as well. "It's still some of the same characters, but also new younger characters; it's a little bit like the sons take over," Emmerich said.
One thing Emmerich didn't say is how many of the characters from the first movie will be played by the same actors. Bill Pullman is said to be on board, but there's no word if Will Smith will be returning (Smith is still a bankable star, while Pullman is a regular on the sit-com "1600 Penn" these days). And Emmerich may still be fiddling with the script: reportedly, the director and Dean Devlin (who co-wrote "ID4") have finished screenplays for the two pictures, but James Vanderbilt, who wrote "White House Down," has been brought in for a rewrite.
Once the smoke clears following the release of "White House Down," solid information will probably surface, but Emmerich has made it clear that after more than a decade and a half, the aliens are coming back to the nation's capitol, and they'll be no happier than they were the first time.
I sure hope that Will Smith gets to play the lead and kill the badguy.
Eddie Murphy to star in Beverly Hills Cop 4
Paramount pressing ahead with third sequel
Source: Total Film
Paramount is moving forward with Beverly Hills Cop 4, with Deadline reporting that the studio has secured Eddie Murphy to star in the fourth outing.
The franchise had initially been expected to progress as a TV series dreamed up by The Shield creator Shawn Ryan, with the story focusing on Axel Foley's son, played by Brandon T. Jackson.
Murphy had appeared in the pilot episode, reprising his performance as loose-cannon cop Axel, but the show wasn't picked up despite widespread media interest.
However, Murphy's performance was seemingly enough to persuade studio bosses that there is still mileage in the character, with Paramount taking the plunge with a third sequel.
No director has been confirmed as yet, but Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec will be charged with creating a script, having previously penned the screenplay for the forthcoming Ninja Turtles remake.
Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin Board 'Stargate' Trilogy at MGM, Warner Bros.
MGM and Warner Bros. are partnering with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin on a reimagining of their sci-fi hit "Stargate."
Emmerich is set to direct, with Devlin to produce. The idea is to use the film to kick off a planned trilogy that reboots the 1994 pic.
"We couldn't be more excited to once again partner with Roland and Dean, the world-class creators of the original 'Stargate,' to bring their reinvigorated vision of this wildly popular property to audiences of multiple generations," MGM chairman-CEO Gary Barber said. "'Stargate' is one of the biggest titles in MGM's vast library, and we look forward to adding this great franchise to our slate."
MGM will be running production on the film, with Jonathan Glickman, president of the motion picture group, overseeing on behalf of MGM, and Greg Silverman, president of creative development and worldwide production, overseeing for Warner Bros. Pictures. Worldwide distribution will be handled by Warner Bros. Pictures, with select international territories to be handled by MGM.
The original film starred Kurt Russell and James Spader and grossed more than $200 million worldwide.
TOP GUN 2? Tom Cruise says only if 100% real jets, no CG!!!QuoteTom setting the record straight on whether he will reprise his role as Maverick, "If I can figure it out, if all of us can figure it out, it'd be fun to do, I'd like to fly those jets again." Cruise continued, "But we got to do all the jets practical, no CGI on the jets...I'm saying right now no CGI on the jets, if we can figure all that out and the Department of Defense will allow us to do it, that would be fun."
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