If you asked me two years what three comedies I would love to see sequels of, I would’ve said Anchorman, Dumb & Dumber, and Bad Santa. Fast-forward to 2013 and we’re finally getting the first two, but a sequel to the third one remains elusive. In fact, there hasn’t been much word on it for over a year when it was announced that Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine) would direct the sequel. But not really any word since.
In an interview with Collider, Bad Santa star Billy Bob Thornton finally provides an update. And while the word isn’t good, it’s not necessarily bad news:
We all want it to happen. It’s all logistics. That’s this business crap, with the rights here, and a person who thinks this, and this person wanting that kind of script. It’s just that stuff. They’re still working on it. When they first said, “Hey, we’re gonna make a sequel to Bad Santa,” I said, “That’s nice. I loved playing that character.” It’s become an iconic movie, and the public wants to see a sequel. I said, “I’ve never done a sequel, but it makes sense to me to do this sequel.” It’s the kind of movie you do a sequel for, so I was all for it.
I think our mistake, and certainly my mistake, was that when people heard about it on the internet or in interviews, they would ask me, “Are you guys doing Bad Santa?,” and I would say, “Oh, yeah, we’re gonna do it this Fall.” I guess I’m still a little bit of a hayseed. I don’t know. When people tell me stuff, I still believe it. So, I think the mistake was that when they said they were gonna do it, we just said, “Yeah, we’re doing it.” The fact of the matter is, we may be doing it. They are working on it. It could be the end of this coming year, or it could be next year, or never. That’s the real honest answer.
So I guess the right answer is that there’s still desire to make a sequel, but nothing is solid yet. That could mean it could come together tomorrow, or it could take another ten years. Since it’s been ten years since the first film, I’m starting to get impatient!
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