Here’s a very obscure hint: In 2005 when the Daily Show was doing one of it’s many pieces ripping on the cable news industry, they did a screen grab and zoomed in on the headline crawl announcing this upcoming project with humorous timing.
I don’t know if the world really needs a sequel of El Topo
This, on the other hand, sounds like the best thing that’s ever been conceived of.
With the billion dollar Avatar box office, maybe this one might get some more attention.
I love the Pierce Brosnan remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, and several years ago there was talk of a sequel (called The Topkapki Affair) but it’s been listed as “in development” for a long time.
In a similar vein, there was supposed to have been a sequel to the remake of The Italian Job by now. FWIW, IMDB lists The Brazilian Job as “announced.”
I want my sequels-to-remakes-of-old-caper-movies, and I want them NOW!
“Vampirella” had another never produced sequel promised during its end credits. The movie was entitled, “Vampirella: Death’s Dark Avenger.”
There was also a rumor that the Hammer Horror Studio bought the rights to Vampirella in the 1970s. Some actors attached to the project were Barbara Leigh, Peter Cushing, Gene Kelley, and John Geilgud.
I’ve never seen any real proof of the following two projects being real, but I’ll include them anyway…
I’ve heard that before he died Sergio Leone raised $500 million from investors in both the USSR and USA to direct a movie about the battle of Stalingrad. Since he died in 1989 and no script exists, I doubt it’s true though.
I’ve also heard that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to film a murder-mystery chase scene in Disneyland with everyone dressed as a Disney character. Since “North by Northwest” came from Hitchcock’s wanting to do a movie about a guy in Lincoln’s nose, I guess it might have been true, but my gut feeling is this was just a joke.
There was a movie made.
It was called Starship Troopers.
But it was not Starship Troopers.
OK, the one I’m being coy about is Cheech and Chong. They were going to do a film revisiting their two stoner characters. It got a fair amount of publicity.
Not only that, but in about '92 I saw Tommy Chong to standup, and at one point he said, “Hey, Cheech and I are gonna do another movie, man”.
Nevertheless:
And from their filmography:
Back in the early '80s, there was to be a *Sgt. Rock *movie, inspired by the DC Comics character. Apparently, Schwartzenegger was to play the title character.
This made no sense to me – I mean, Sgt. Rock is as true-blue American as they come. I don’t think Ah-node’s accent would fly, but the story was that things were to be rewritten that Rock was born in Germany, but his parents immigrated to the US after he was born.
This premise must have been rediculous enough that the project was cancelled.
Still, I do like the idea of a *Sgt. Rock *movie…
Another I would like to see, which legend says has been completely filmed, but not edited completely is the Jerry Lewis film “The Day the Clown Cried”, even though reviews from the handful of people who have actually seen it are mixed.
Airborn, based on the book by Kenneth Oppel about a cabin boy on an airship attacked by skypirates has been in pre-production for years…
And I was really looking forward to Master of Space and Time, based on the zany book by Rudy Rucker. At one point Jack Black was meant to star and Michael Gondry to direct…
Still waiting for the movie based on Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight series. I realise they had to wait until they could do the special effects to do it justice but surely by now if they can do Avatar, they can do this?
Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires
Promised sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep
There were plans for a Red Dwarf movie, but the producers were never able to get the funding.
It’s been announced that after a few failed attempts, there is now development moving forward on a film featuring the character of Kay Scarpetta, from the novels by Patricia Cornwell. Somehow we’ve gone from the character being ideally played by Jodie Foster to being played by Angelina Jolie. I’m not actually holding my breath for this.
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Not only that, but in about '92 I saw Tommy Chong to standup, and at one point he said, “Hey, Cheech and I are gonna do another movie, man”.
Yeah, but are you going to take the word of a stoner?
Well, they did just do a comedy tour, so I don’t think it would be too unlikely.
Most reviewers say that the first book was the best (and most kid-friendly) of the three. So if the first movie bombed, then the next two would probably be total trainwrecks.
There was a TV movie / reunion special thingy last year. It was kind of painful for me to watch. But I say that as a fan of the first couple of seasons only. I don’t know what the series itself was like in later years.
Speaking of Bubba Ho-tep, wasn’t Don Coscarelli supposed to make a final, apocalyptic “Phantasm”?
Angus Scrimm may be too old to do it now, anyway.
That reminds me. When the BBC brought back “Doctor Who”, at least one exec flat out stated that it was being brought back in order to possibly launch a film series. What ever happened to that?
What ever happened to the promised Logan’s Run remake, which was supposed to be faithful to the book?
Here’s a trivia note from IMDB on the sequel. Don’t know how accurate it is:*
Popular “sci-fi” author and pulp fiction fan Philip Jose Farmer wrote a book entitled “Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life”, a biography of “the man of bronze”. In it, he theorized that Clark Savage, Sr. (the father of Doc Savage) was James Clarke Wildman, who appeared in the Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Priory School”. Farmer wrote an unused script for a sequel to “Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze” entitled “Doc Savage: Archenemy of Evil”, in which Holmes himself made an appearance, commenting on Savage as the greatest student of deduction he ever had and referencing his encounter with Savage’s father. It remains unknown whom Farmer wanted for this role.*