Articles tagged with: Sequel
It looks like there's going to be a fair wait until Batman 3 pops its fat head out for us all to see. The sequel to the Best Film Ever(tm) that has made more money than the GDP of many African nations combined, The Dark Knight, will get a sequel at some point. On one hand, who would blame the studio? It's a licence to print money. On the same hand but slightly tilted, the vast majority of people who have seen the first two films actually want a sequel, seeing as both Batman Begins and the more recent helping were utterly brilliant. Oh, plus Christian Bale isn't going to be put in the slammer for three hundred years, or thereabouts. But David S. Goyer, writer of the screenplay for both films, has other things to do for quite a while, so you plebians are going to have to wait a while for your next hit of Gotham's favourite vigilante.
Never let it be said that we of hecklerspray are ever anything but right all the time. ALL THE TIME*. Just as we say, non-stop, that Hollywood has run out of ideas - reporting on the Goonies sequel, The Smurfs movie (Lindsay Lohan's role as 'Big Lesbian Smurf' still unconfirmed) and the fear we all felt when the Friends movie was rumoured - they come and do it again. This time it's the turn of Lethal Weapon 5, where they really, really will be too old for this shizzle. Or they might be too drunk, who knows?
Do we really need to see a grown man truffle shuffle? That's the question that has been buzzing around in our heads for the past few hours after news that there's a distinct chance that the Goonies 2 film, rumoured for so very long, is actually in the early stages of real, bona-fide production. And if the sources are to be believed, this isn't a case of The Lost Boys 2: Straight To DVD And Missing The Point Of The First Completely - this is something Warner Brothers want to actually try and get right. So how do we feel about that? Well, I would say we have mixed emotions.
When we heard that four bloodsucking zombie-like creatures were going to be involved in a film revolved around seducing men, you could say we were vaguely interested. At first, we assumed it would be a modern day version of the classic Greek myth about Medusa and her ability to turn anyone into stone. Making it all postmodern and setting in New York meant a whole host of terror could be inflicted on a city that King Kong and the Cloverfield monster had both already ravaged. But we got the wrong end of the stick and were in for a shock when we discovered what the film was about. The wicked witches of New York - otherwise known as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda from Sex And The City - had somehow slithered on to the big screen to torture cinemagoers everywhere. And, after just getting over this initial shitfest, our blood pressure has soared again - we’ve learnt that a sequel has just been commissioned.
Michael Moore is getting ready to make another film about his favourite subject - no not cake, you horribly offensive fool, we mean President Bush. According to reports, Michael Moore is preparing ground to make a sequel to his 2004 anti-George Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. The new movie has a working title of Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2, although it's expected that Michael Moore will formally change it to Fahrenheit 9/11: Nyer Nyer Nyer I Was Right All Along Let's Hear It For Michael Moore I'm The Best I'm The Best nearer the release date. Anyway, will this new Michael Moore documentary succeed where Fahrenheit 9/11 failed and push George Bush out of office for good? Even better than that - George Bush is going to stop being president about six months before Moore's film is released. Hooray! Another righteous victory for Michael Moore!
So by now everyone on the face of the planet, even those who are blind or can't afford to eat, have seen Iron Man. With an opening weekend box office tally of $100 million, the list of records that Iron Man has broken is either stupendous or utterly, utterly dull depending on if you're a massive spod or not. And if you are, then the news that Iron Man 2 is coming out in April 2010 will probably make your balls catch on fire. What? You'd already guessed that based on the fact that the plot of Iron Man deliberately set up a sequel and that the entire Iron Man cast has signed on for a sequel and that Iron Man's a comic book movie and only really hopeless comic book movies about Ben Affleck being all blind and shit don't get turned into sequels? Oh, suit yourselves.
The first X-Files movie left all kinds of questions unanswered - questions like 'what's going on?' 'when can I go home?' and 'is this what my life has really come to?'.
So it was always inevitable that an X-Files sequel would be on the cards. And it just so happens that one's coming out in a few months. But nobody has the foggiest clue about what it'll actually be about.
But that's where X-Files sequel director Chris Carter and screenwriter Frank Spotnitz come in. They've decided to spill the beans about the X-Files sequel without actually mentioning anything that's going to happen in it at all. Still interested? Yes? Well that's fairly depressing.
Now that Cloverfield - AKA The Blair Godzilla Project - has broken box office records, the time has inevitably come to talk sequels even though nobody really wants to see one.
Even though it's only been out for less than a week, it's been reported that a Cloverfield sequel is already in the works, with director Matt Reeves already brimming with ideas on how to gobble up every last penny explore every last creative avenue that a Cloverfield sequel would open.
However, if a Cloverfield sequel is made, let's not forget the lesson that The Matrix taught us - that no sequel is complete without a lengthy underground slow-motion rave scene.
