The SEQUELS That Time Forgot

Started by modage, May 27, 2003, 11:35:48 PM

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oh my god i totally missed that midnight run post by mac. holy shit i love that movie, and hope they do it justice.
the one last hit that spent you...

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'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.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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Fernando

great!

one less flick tnt won't be playing ad nauseum.

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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.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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modage

Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

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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.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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Stefen

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.
Falling in love is the greatest joy in life. Followed closely by sneaking into a gated community late at night and firing a gun into the air.

RegularKarate

I gotta admit when I read that article, I got a little McQuarrie eyed

Gold Trumpet

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.

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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.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


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matt35mm

Shouldn't that go in that "Remake Remake Fucking Remake" thread? Or is it time to reboot that thread?

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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.
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I sure hope that Will Smith gets to play the lead and kill the badguy.

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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.
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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.
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