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Ok! Magazine is reporting that Heath is in talks to do BBM 2
Lynne:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 19, 2007, 11:52:24 am ---OK! may unreliable, but I don't see why the idea is so nonsensical. Many of us here have read a very well written and plausible fanfic that is based on the scenario of Ennis moving on after Jack's death. We even casted it. Why wouldn't Heath be interested in BBM 2?
L
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Sure enough, Leslie. I guess I'm saying that I wouldn't personally want to see a sequel for numerous reasons. Sequels are notoriously bad. And the ONLY people in whose hands I would trust it would be the original screenwriters and Ang Lee. Since I can't see all that coming together twice in one lifetime, for me it would fall short of the sublime achieved the first time around.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: Lynne on October 19, 2007, 11:56:37 am ---Sequels are notoriously bad.
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Not always. The Godfather is an example of good sequels. Both are very good films.
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Lynne on October 19, 2007, 11:56:37 am ---Sure enough, Leslie. I guess I'm saying that I wouldn't personally want to see a sequel for numerous reasons. Sequels are notoriously bad. And the ONLY people in whose hands I would trust it would be the original screenwriters and Ang Lee. Since I can't see all that coming together twice in one lifetime, for me it would fall short of the sublime achieved the first time around.
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I see Natali just commented on the Godfather and the Godfather Part 2, which I was going to do. I also think that each of the Harry Potter movies does well on its own, as a standalone. And that's how I would envision this--not BBM2, but a new story, revolving around Ennis Del Mar and what happens in his life after Jack dies.
Annie Proulx has said she will write nothing more on BBM, but Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry have never made such a statement (to my knowledge). So maybe the original screenwriters are involved in this project, if there is a project that is!
I'm of the mind to never say never...
L
Jeff Wrangler:
Tell you what, I don't think I want a sequel, even from McMurty, Osana, and Lee.
I would probably not be satisfied with it, no way, no how. Why? Because I'm so set in my own mind what happens after Jack's death. I've finished the story myself.
I'm just going off my own feelings of never really being completely happy with The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi because I wasn't happy with where Lucas et al. took that story.
And here's a theoretical question: Are the successive Harry Potter movies really "sequels"? Aren't they each based on separate books? Just occcurs to me to wonder about this because Leslie mentions that they each stand well on their own. I've never seen any of them--or read any of the Potter books. They hold no interest for me.
Kd5000:
It would be a disaster. Can't believe Heath wouldn't want to move on with his career. Do they even make sequels to these sort of genres, i.e. a love story being used as social commentary. It made an excellent statement the way it ended. A sequel would take away from that.
Don't do it Ennis! Don't do it!
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