All things:sequels



Despite the 'filming hiatus' and rumored script issues, this trailer sure looks good.
 
Sequel Bits: Mark Neveldine Says ‘Crank 3′ Will Happen; Plus ‘RockNRolla,’ ‘Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Incredibles’ Follow-up Talk | /Film

Guy Ritchie‘s movie RocknRolla ended with a card that said, “Johnny, Archy and the Wild Bunch will be back in The Real RocknRolla.” And that sequel might still happen, Ritche said. He told Movieline that his script for the sequel is done, and he’s even got someone lined up to pay for it. But as long as WB keeps throwing him big movies like the Sherlock Holmes films and The Man From UNCLE, it might not happen soon.

You know, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it! I’ve written a script, I think it’s a great script, and Joel [Silver] wants to pay for me to do it. But up until now we haven’t had the time to do it. It’s sitting there and we’d all like to do it, it’s just a question of when we’re going to fit it in. So we’ll wait and see.
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This is another movie I love and would love to see a sequel too.
 
Ghostbusters 3 Looking Pretty Dead – “It’s A Surety That Bill Murray Will Not Do The Movie”

Consider this a funeral for some friends.

It looks like Dan Aykroyd‘s dreams of a Ghostbusters 3 really have been fed through the paper shredder by Bill Murray. The actor has told The Telegraph that, despite studio interest and an awful lot of cheerleading on his part, that the proposed threequel is now “in suspended animation.”


The studio, the director Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis feel there must be a way to do it, but Bill Murray will not do the movie. He doesn’t want to be involved. He’s got six kids, houses all over America. He golfs in these tournaments where they pay him to turn up and have a laugh. He’s into this life and living it. I know we’d have a lot of fun.. I can’t be mad at him. He’s a friend first, a colleague second. We have a deep personal relationship that transcends business and he doesn’t want to know.
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Just as well.
 
Director says Men in Black 3 is either 'genius' or 'really stupid' | Blastr

Candor can be wonderful—especially from creators and stars who've literally been paid to say their film/TV show/whatever is the greatest thing ever. But that honesty usually comes in hindsight.

The fact that director Barry Sonnenfeld and makeup artist Rick Baker are slagging on Men in Black 3's production now is rather strange indeed.

Getting the Men in Black band back together for a sequel seems like a good idea, and adding Josh Brolin to the Will Smith-Tommy Lee Jones cocktail was a master stroke. But Sonnenfeld admitted to Empire magazine that, maybe, rushing into MIB3 might not have been the smartest movie:

"We knew starting the movie that we didn't have a finished second or third act. Was it responsible? The answer is, if this movie does as well as I think it will, it was genius. If it's a total failure, then it was a really stupid idea."

And Rick Baker—who's been making movies for 40 years and has the Oscars to prove it—was flabbergasted at the way things were going:

"It was a crazy production. We had a writer actually on the soundstage writing the words moments before the guys had to say them. I don't think that's any way to make a movie. But I've seen a rough cut and I was actually shocked at how good it was."

As always, the proof is in the pudding, and we'll find out on May 25 whether Sonnenfeld's decision was inspired or madness.
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b.t.w. The teaser reel I saw for Baker's fx at last years SDCC, where he basically re-imagined(god that word sucks) old 1950 sci-fi archetypes(including the gorilla with a television for a head) were pretty damned kickass. And he has kinda SPOILED...




that TLJ is more than likely going to be 'replaced' by younger K for future sequels. My biggest complaint is that they apparently wrote Rip Torn(greatest name ever) out of the movie.
 
I dunno...maybe because of the RDJ/'this IS my house' binge episode. But yeah. His absence will be disappointing.
 
Well I have bad news...and worse news.

Brett Ratner in Talks to Direct MIDNIGHT RUN 2

Midnight Run is about to get Ratner-fied. Development on a sequel to the 1988 buddy action-comedy began in early 2010 when word came that Universal was working on a follow-up with star Robert De Niro attached to reprise his bounty hunter role from the original. Now comes word that Mr. Brett Ratner is in talks to direct the sequel and screenwriters David Elliot and Paul Lovett (G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra) have been tapped to perform a rewrite. For those unfamiliar, the first film starred De Niro as a bounty hunter tasked with escorting an embezzler (Charles Grodin) across the country. Hit the jump for more on Midnight Run 2.

News of Ratner’s involvement with Midnight Run 2 comes courtesy of Deadline. As the man behind the Rush Hour franchise, Ratner certainly has experience with buddy comedies (albeit not good ones). He recently helmed the below-average comedy Tower Heist, and I’m not exactly hopeful that he’ll turn out a fun and exciting Midnight Run sequel. The involvement of Elliot and Lovett doesn’t raise my enthusiasm either; in addition to G.I. Joe they also wrote Four Brothers. The previous draft of the sequel was written by Timothy Dowling (Role Models, Knight and Day), and last we heard the story would involve teaming De Niro up with a “younger comedic foil.” That “old, curmudgeon cop/young, hip cop” dynamic is probably comedic gold to Ratner, but depending on whom they cast opposite De Niro we could be in for an incredibly boring ride.
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