Hollywood has been big in the business of sequels for about thirty years now, and we’re only seeing more and more sequels as the years go by. So we put together a round-up of exciting sequel news about some key sequels that you might be interested in.
The Expendables 3: Though Expendables 2 is opening this weekend, a third entry in the all-star action hero franchise is already in development (as Randy Couture talked about back in March). Producer Avi Lerner talked to Total Film about who he wants to add to the next film, and claims he already has Nicholas Cage committed (and why doubt him? Cage will do any movie). Lerner also says he’s in talks with Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford, wants Wesley Snipes for a role when he gets out of jail, and is willing to take Mickey Rourke back “if he won’t be too crazy.” While I don’t see either Eastwood or Ford signing up, Snipes was actually slated to star in the original before his sentence and was supposed to play Hale Caesar, who was instead portrayed by Terry Crews in both films.
Bill & Ted 3: I’m not sure why other sites are reporting this quote in GQ from Keanu Reeves about the plot for Bill & Ted 3 as big news since it’s not much different from what Reeves has been saying for a while. Check it out:
One of the plot points is that these two people have been crushed by the responsibility of having to write the greatest song ever written and to change the world. And they haven’t done it. So everybody is kind of like: “Where is the song?” The guys have just drifted off into esoterica and lost their rock. And we go on this expedition, go into the future to find out if we wrote the song, and one future “us” refuses to tell us, and another future “us” blames us for their lives because we didn’t write the song, so they’re living this terrible life. In one version we’re in jail; in another we’re at some kind of highway motel and they hate us.
The actual big Bill & Ted news is that director Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) is attached to direct the film from the script by Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson, who wrote the two prior films.
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset Sequel: Richard Linklater‘s charming Before series, which follows a relationship between Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in nine-year increments, is about due for another sequel following the 1995 original and 2004 sequel. Delpy told IndieWire that the third entry will probably shoot next summer and will take in account technology: like, what would happen in the two characters started e-mailing each other, explaining: “They haven’t emailed before, but perhaps if they had, they would have been together and fallen apart by now.”
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