Prequels, sequels, and remakes, oh hell:
- I liked Inside Man, but I didn’t really think it cried out for a sequel. But maybe that’s why I don’t work in Hollywood.
- Have we learned nothing from the cinematic sins of George Lucas? Brian De Palma is making an Untouchables prequel. After recently suffering through The Black Dahlia, there’s only so much slack I’m willing to cut the man. This sounds like a really bad idea to me.
- And so does a remake of Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, but apparently that’s in the works, too.
- Speaking of Gilliam, wanna buy his house? I have no idea if this is genuine, or if this actually Gilliam’s home. I sent an e-mail to Phil Stubbs on Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine, but so far I haven’t heard back from him.
- Prequels, sequels and remakes don’t just happen in filmdom, though. Ray Bradbury has written a sequel to his 1957 book Dandelion Wine. There’s a part of me that sort of wishes he hadn’t. On his official website, Bradbury writes:
FAREWELL SUMMER is a result of my having a grand time over many years and splitting that grand time in two pieces. The first half, DANDELION WINE, was published in 1957 and my publisher said that the book was a little to long so we’d have to save the second half and publish it in the future. So FAREWELL SUMMER was the second half and my ganglion and antenna broadcast back and forth and I had a good time of making sure it was delivered forth to my typewriter.
Which may well be, but then why the almost five decades that separate the two books?