Articles tagged with: Sequel
All Aboard The High School Musical 4 Bus
If you are anything like hecklerspray then your high school experience can be summed up with just a few words: plague-like bloody diarrhoea, ultra massive steroid use, and posing nude so the seniors can properly take their anatomy final. There was never any spontaneous singing though - and a good thing too, because that would have been super gay - like East High gay. Speaking of which - you know how there's been a pleasant calm in the world since everyone everywhere knows the cast graduated, and so can't make any more sequels? Well no more - Disney has just committed to HSM4.
If you are anything like hecklerspray then your high school experience can be summed up with just a few words: plague-like bloody diarrhoea, ultra massive steroid use, and posing nude so the seniors can properly take their anatomy final. There was never any spontaneous singing though - and a good thing too, because that would have been super gay - like East High gay. Speaking of which - you know how there's been a pleasant calm in the world since everyone everywhere knows the cast graduated, and so can't make any more sequels? Well no more - Disney has just committed to HSM4.
Ready For Terminator 5? No? Tough
Terminator Salvation looks set to be one of the most talked-about movies of next year, even if much if the talk looks set to be "Oh lord, this is terrible." But because of all the pre-release hype surrounding Terminator Salvation, it's almost certainly not going to be the last Terminator film. In fact, according to producers, Terminator 5 is now going to be rushed into cinemas by summer 2011. Apparently to be set in the Middle East, Terminator 5 will revolve around the time when John Connor got a nasty scratch from some robot shrapnel and looked for treatment. It'll be called Terminator Savlon. Sorry.
Terminator Salvation looks set to be one of the most talked-about movies of next year, even if much if the talk looks set to be "Oh lord, this is terrible." But because of all the pre-release hype surrounding Terminator Salvation, it's almost certainly not going to be the last Terminator film. In fact, according to producers, Terminator 5 is now going to be rushed into cinemas by summer 2011. Apparently to be set in the Middle East, Terminator 5 will revolve around the time when John Connor got a nasty scratch from some robot shrapnel and looked for treatment. It'll be called Terminator Savlon. Sorry.
Batman 3: Christoper Nolan Still Being A Chuffing Tease
The world is dying for Batman 3 - it wants murk, it wants thematic complexity, it wants a superhero with a crappy voice. But most of all, the world wants Christopher Nolan. But since this is Christopher Nolan - a man who once made an entire film about Al Pacino being quite sleepy - he isn't making the Batman 3 talk easy. Promoting The Dark Knight's DVD release, Nolan reiterated that the pressure of following such a huge movie might cause him to foul the sequel up. Well, Christopher, that didn't stop Sam Raimi from making Spider-Man 3, and that was... um, OK, let's move on.
The world is dying for Batman 3 - it wants murk, it wants thematic complexity, it wants a superhero with a crappy voice. But most of all, the world wants Christopher Nolan. But since this is Christopher Nolan - a man who once made an entire film about Al Pacino being quite sleepy - he isn't making the Batman 3 talk easy. Promoting The Dark Knight's DVD release, Nolan reiterated that the pressure of following such a huge movie might cause him to foul the sequel up. Well, Christopher, that didn't stop Sam Raimi from making Spider-Man 3, and that was... um, OK, let's move on.
Cloverfield 2: Coming Soon, Unless It Isn’t
As movie law states, a successful shaky-camera film should always be followed by a non-shaky film that everybody hates. It happened with The Blair With Project, and now it's probably going to be happening with Cloverfield too, so long as the director can get his act together. Almost a year after it was greenlit, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves still hasn't made is mind up about what to do with Cloverfield 2. Don't get him wrong, he has ideas about Cloverfield 2, he just doesn't know where to set it. Or who'll star in it. Or when it'll take place. Or what'll happen in it. Or if he'll direct it or not. But, seriously, once Matt Reeves has those details down, Cloverfield 2 is going to be excellent. Or rubbish. Or somewhere between those two.
As movie law states, a successful shaky-camera film should always be followed by a non-shaky film that everybody hates. It happened with The Blair With Project, and now it's probably going to be happening with Cloverfield too, so long as the director can get his act together. Almost a year after it was greenlit, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves still hasn't made is mind up about what to do with Cloverfield 2. Don't get him wrong, he has ideas about Cloverfield 2, he just doesn't know where to set it. Or who'll star in it. Or when it'll take place. Or what'll happen in it. Or if he'll direct it or not. But, seriously, once Matt Reeves has those details down, Cloverfield 2 is going to be excellent. Or rubbish. Or somewhere between those two.
Sex And The City 2: It’s Happening, Despite Your Howls of Protest
If you thought 94 episodes of Sex And The City and one entire feature-length Sex And The City movie weren't enough, this is your lucky day. Well, technically it isn't your lucky day at all, because if you still don't think that 94 episodes of Sex And The City and one entire feature-length Sex And The City movie have fully satisfied you, then chances are you qualify as being medically mentally ill. You should probably get that looked at. But aside from that, it probably is your lucky day a bit, because Kim Cattrall has declared that Sex And The City 2 is definitely going ahead. Great - presuming it takes three years to make Sex And The City 2, the four main actresses will have a combined age of 192 by the time it's released. Luckily the writers are taking this into consideration, and the subplot about Sarah Jessica Parker's vaginal prolapse is thought to be very moving.
If you thought 94 episodes of Sex And The City and one entire feature-length Sex And The City movie weren't enough, this is your lucky day. Well, technically it isn't your lucky day at all, because if you still don't think that 94 episodes of Sex And The City and one entire feature-length Sex And The City movie have fully satisfied you, then chances are you qualify as being medically mentally ill. You should probably get that looked at. But aside from that, it probably is your lucky day a bit, because Kim Cattrall has declared that Sex And The City 2 is definitely going ahead. Great - presuming it takes three years to make Sex And The City 2, the four main actresses will have a combined age of 192 by the time it's released. Luckily the writers are taking this into consideration, and the subplot about Sarah Jessica Parker's vaginal prolapse is thought to be very moving.
Matt Damon Signs For Bourne 4: The Bourne Senility
Here's some advance warning - Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass are making a fourth Bourne film, so stock up on the motion sickness pills while you still can. That's right - although The Bourne Ultimatum seemed to end with a satisfyingly piece of trilogy closure, you can now be pretty sure it didn't. Bourne 4 is on the way and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Best of all, Bourne 4 will be the first Bourne film not to be based on a Robert Ludlum novel. Phew, finally we won't have to worry about plot or character development or anything - just endless scenes of Matt Damon jumping across buildings and arbitrarily punching people while being filmed by what appears to be a drunk Parkinson's sufferer trying to operate a pneumatic drill on a trampoline on a boat in a storm. Perfect.
Here's some advance warning - Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass are making a fourth Bourne film, so stock up on the motion sickness pills while you still can. That's right - although The Bourne Ultimatum seemed to end with a satisfyingly piece of trilogy closure, you can now be pretty sure it didn't. Bourne 4 is on the way and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Best of all, Bourne 4 will be the first Bourne film not to be based on a Robert Ludlum novel. Phew, finally we won't have to worry about plot or character development or anything - just endless scenes of Matt Damon jumping across buildings and arbitrarily punching people while being filmed by what appears to be a drunk Parkinson's sufferer trying to operate a pneumatic drill on a trampoline on a boat in a storm. Perfect.
Brandon Routh Still Superman Despite Reason And Logic
Of all the Superman Returns criticism - about the the religious allegories and the stupid baby and, oh, everything - one fact got lost in the mix. And that was that the Superman Returns Superman was a bit rubbish. As Superman, Brandon Routh had all the charisma of a mannequin with a polystyrene Christopher Reeve head. If anyone was ever silly enough to make a sequel to Superman Returns, then surely they'd do the decent thing and ditch Brandon Routh, right? Wrong! According to DC Comics President Paul Levitz, Brandon Routh is definitely still on to make the Superman Returns sequel. Although it seems a bit of a wasted opportunity to bring back Brandon Routh, perhaps you can understand Levitz's rationale once you've heard what the new Superman movie is going to be called - Superman Stands Around Unconvincingly. Genius.
Of all the Superman Returns criticism - about the the religious allegories and the stupid baby and, oh, everything - one fact got lost in the mix. And that was that the Superman Returns Superman was a bit rubbish. As Superman, Brandon Routh had all the charisma of a mannequin with a polystyrene Christopher Reeve head. If anyone was ever silly enough to make a sequel to Superman Returns, then surely they'd do the decent thing and ditch Brandon Routh, right? Wrong! According to DC Comics President Paul Levitz, Brandon Routh is definitely still on to make the Superman Returns sequel. Although it seems a bit of a wasted opportunity to bring back Brandon Routh, perhaps you can understand Levitz's rationale once you've heard what the new Superman movie is going to be called - Superman Stands Around Unconvincingly. Genius.
Blade Runner 2: Written By Someone Who Probably Needs A Slap
We've never met Travis Wright, but we imagine that he hates you - otherwise he wouldn't be deliberately provoking you like this. You see, Travis Wright is one of the writers of Eagle Eye - the movie that's top of the American box office despite looking like it was crapped out by a puppy with a gammy tummy - and for his next trick he says he's working on a script for Blade Runner 2. Obviously Travis Wright writing a Blade Runner 2 script is a terrible idea. Not because of the important cultural significance of the original or anything, though. No, we're dead against the idea of Blade Runner 2 for one reason and one reason only - it'll probably end up having bloody Shia LaBeouf in it, won't it.
We've never met Travis Wright, but we imagine that he hates you - otherwise he wouldn't be deliberately provoking you like this. You see, Travis Wright is one of the writers of Eagle Eye - the movie that's top of the American box office despite looking like it was crapped out by a puppy with a gammy tummy - and for his next trick he says he's working on a script for Blade Runner 2. Obviously Travis Wright writing a Blade Runner 2 script is a terrible idea. Not because of the important cultural significance of the original or anything, though. No, we're dead against the idea of Blade Runner 2 for one reason and one reason only - it'll probably end up having bloody Shia LaBeouf in it, won't it.
