Looks Like That 'Crank' Sequel is Moving Forward
Filed under: Action, Remakes and Sequels
It was last May when we first started hearing rumblings about the possibility of a Crank sequel, but as anyone who's seen the flick can tell you -- the ending doesn't exactly lend itself to follow-up options. Let's just say that our hero Chev Chelios (Jason Statham), riddled with horrible poison, reached a fate that few aside from Bugs Bunny could survive. But that's not stopping writer-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor from kick-starting that sequel.According to Empire, this will be a "true" sequel; no dream sequences or long-lost twin brothers will be employed to ignore the first film's freaky finale. Here's what Mr. Neveldine told Empire: "We came up with an idea, we wrote the script, and after the studio read it they couldn't believe that we pulled it off. And of course, the best test was giving it to Jason and Jason turned down every other project so he could do this, start this in the spring of next year. He was so excited, he couldn't believe it!"
Needless to say, Crank 2 will deliver even more high-end movie mayhem: "You have to go twice as hard. So that's what we're going to do. If we're going to live up to the first one with the sequel -- we're taking it WAY past the point of the first one." Production on the second Crank looks to be scheduled for next April. No word yet on if Amy Smart or Dwight Yoakam will be returning, but really ... why wouldn't they?
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10-07-2007 @ 2:33PM
RP said...
Can't say i particularly enjoyed Crank, or anything with Statham in in general, but it's worth this being made just to see how they're going to handle the start.
However, if it's simply a cop-out ("Oh, he just landed on something really, really soft!"), then no thank you!
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10-07-2007 @ 4:44PM
Peter said...
Granted no human being alive could survive the fall at the end of the movie, he clearly isn't dead.
I for one hated everything I knew about Crank, until I finally let a friend convince me to have a movie night for it. Now I think it is a great piece of pure nonsense, but for all the right - and, more importantly, intentional - reasons. Crank had the misfortune of being born fifteen years too late. Otherwise everyone would be heralding it as a cult film on steroids. Give it time and I think a lot more people are going to respect it.
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10-07-2007 @ 6:42PM
Wayne said...
I appreciated "Crank" for it's cinematography and the fact it was shot in HD with hand-held cameras. I thought the movie itself was okay. The misogyny was completely unnecessary and a bit of a put-off. I can see being 15 years-old and thinking, "Yeah! Boobies!", but as an adult I found "Crank" to be a bit too stereotypically macho. I think that both of the "Transporter" movies were better overall. "Crank" actually fails to maintain the same level of intensity throughout the entire movie. There is a definite lull 2/3 of the way through.
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10-08-2007 @ 12:08AM
cheezedog said...
Its not the fall that killed him... That just was suppose to seal his fate... It's suppose to be the poison that killed him.. How they ever get around that plot issue is whats going to boggle my mind till I see it.
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10-08-2007 @ 12:03AM
madgamer said...
I loved crank but honestly have no idea how they would pull a true sequel out of that ending.. I can't wait to see.
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10-08-2007 @ 7:41AM
Scaramanga said...
"You only have 24 hours to pen this screenplay, or we flatline your career..."
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10-08-2007 @ 1:50PM
Nova said...
He blinks at the end, he didn't die. The sequel is easy to write. He took so much of that poison that it had the opposite effect. He basically super human now. Hell they even allude to it in the end of the first movie.
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