Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek 2,’ ‘Piranha 3DD,’ ‘Killer Klowns,’ ‘Entourage’, ‘Men In Black 3’
Everything gets a sequel now: big tentpole event films, popular TV shows, and low-rent horror films.Especiallylow-rent horror films. After the break you’ll find:
At this point, we know very little about whatJ.J. Abrams,Roberto Orci,Alex KurtzmanandDamon Lindelofhave cooked up for the sequel toStar Trek. It seems like the production wants a Latin actor for the bad guy, who may or may not be Khan or another character from the classicTrekTV series. We’ve heard that no further actors from the classic crew setup will show their faces, as Leonard Nimoy did in the recent Trek revival.
Abrams did recentlycommenton his series' relationship to the Original Series:
The notion that when this one character, Nero, arrives in his ship, that basically the timeline is altered at that moment, so everything forward is essentially an alternative timeline. That is not to say that everything that happened in The Original Series doesn’t exist. I think, as a fan of movies and shows, if someone told me the beloved thing for me was gone, I would be upset. But we didn’t do that. We’re not saying that what happened in that original series wasn’t good, true, valid, righteous and real. Let people embrace that. We’re not rejecting that. That, to me, would have been the big mistake. We’re simply saying that, ‘At this moment, the very first scene in the first movie, everything that people knew of Star Trek splits off into now another timeline.’
Nothing really new there. We probably won’t get a lot more info about theTreksequel for months to come, butTrekMoviesays there are some clues out there. According toMike Johnson, who is writing the currentStar Trekcomic series, the first issue of the comic, published in September, and the fourth, published last week, both contain minor clues to a subplot in the new Trek sequel.
What are they? Your guess is as good as ours. He said,
One of the great things about working with Bob [Orci] is that we are able to use the ongoing series to very subtly lay in clues to the next movie. There might even be a tiny hint of a subplot in the first issue.
Don’t go looking for big obvious clues, but I’ll be curious to see if any really dedicated fans can figure out what he’s talking about.
At the beginning of this week, word came out thatPiranha 3DD, the sequel to last year’s over the top 3D blood and fish-fest, will be released direct to DVD in the UK. Fear not, however, that you’ll miss a theatrical engagement in the US. Dimension has assuredBloody-Disgustingand other outlets that the US will get the film in a theatrical 3D run, and other territories will, too.
The film starsDanielle Panabaker,Matt Bush,Chris Zylka,David Koechner,Meagan Tandy,Paul James Jordan,Jean-Luc Bilodeau,Hector Jimenez,Adrian Martinez,Clu Gulager,Gary Busey,Katrina Bowden,Christopher Lloyd,Ving Rhames,Paul Scheer, andDavid Hasselhoff. It is described as,
A Horror sequel in which a species of violent prehistoric piranha continue to terrify a small town. The chaos unleashed in ‘Piranha’ (2010) by a group of the omnivorous fish, set free by an earthquake that split the floor of a lake, may only have been the beginning. The tests of marine biologist Carl Goodman (Christopher Lloyd) indicate that these fish were only adolescents, suggesting their parents would be even fiercer adversaries. When the piranha make their way into the town’s plumbing system, the terror spreads. Soon swimming pools and even the town’s brand new waterpark are infested by the bloodthirsty critters. Can the town’s residents, marshalled by survivor of the first movie Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames), find a way to combat their sharp-teethed tormentors?
Anyone who frequented the horror and sci-fi sections of video stores in the very late ’80s and throughout the ’90s probably sawKiller Klowns from Outer Space, or is al least familiar with the distinctive box art.
Now creatorsCharles, Edward and Stephen Chiodoare working on a ‘requel,’ i.e. anEvil Dead II-style sequel that will partially remake the original film but offer new story elements and, hopefully, effects and kills.
Grant Cramer, who played Mike Tobacco in the original, will return to ““be the mentor to the two new young leads that have to try save the world from the Klowns when they return.” Those Klowns, of course, being aliens who look like clowns, who land on earth in their circus tent-like ship with the intent of turning humans into food. The Chiodo Brothers have a script and are trying to get funding and distribution in place. [Facebook]
Talk has flown about anEntouragefilm sequel to the finished TV show, andJerry Ferrara, who played Turtle, talked to theWall St. Journalabout the possibility of a film:
Finally, from theNew Zealand Heraldvia thePlaylist, here’s the first image ofJemaine Clementas the alien big bad inMen in Black III, which once again starsWill SmithandTommy Lee Jones, and addsJosh Brolinas the young version of Jones' agent K. We don’t know much about what specific sort of antagonizin' Clement will be doing in the film, but anyone who has seen the other two films in the series can probably make a guess.MiB IIIopens on May 25.
