Sequel Bits: ‘Kick-Ass 2’, ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’, ‘Child’s Play 6’, ‘Beetlejuice 2’, ‘Cloudy 2’
Today’s Sequel Bits is bursting with plot details — forKick-Ass 2,Cloudy 2, andCurse of Chucky. There’s even a tidbit of info about what we might or might not see inBeetlejuice 2. After the jump:
Just about every superhero epic includes a plotline at some point which sees the costumed avenger being unmasked, and it looks likeKick-Asswill be going there for its upcoming sequel. According toMoviehole,Kick-Ass 2will see both Mindy/Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) and Dave/Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) reeling from the consequences of having their identities revealed to the wrong people:
Dave’s identity as ‘Kick-Ass’ is only really revealed to the one extra person, but it’s someone important. And it has repercussions. Hit-Girl’s identity is also widely known by this point – and it evokes much nasty yabbering behind Mindy’s back by her schoolmates (she’s nicknamed “Captain Muffin-Muncher”). The worst of the mean girls, Brooke, is your typical prissy jock-marrying wannabe who controls the thoughts and feelings of her teenage followers and disciples (including innocent young Lois, whom ultimately forms a bond with Mindy). But ‘Hit-Girl’, never one to shy away from a confrontation and seemingly always equipped with the perfect weapon of self defense, gets Brooke and her bitch gang back in… let’s say, rather spectacular fashion. It involves gadgetry, projectile vomiting and much begging. There will be so much cheering in the cinema!
Screen Rantadds that the film will also see Dave and Mindy reuniting and recruiting allies for a “‘Balls to the Wall’ fight” against Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who by this point has assembled his own team of baddies.Kick-Ass 2is slated to begin shooting this fall.
We’ve yet to see a real trailer forA Good Day to Die Hard, but thanks to these videos from the Budapest set we have a tiny little glimpse of the first real footage from the film. Much of the video just shows cast and crew milling about, but whoever shot the video zooms into the monitor a few times so we do get to see what they’re shooting. Not surprisingly, explosions and blood are involved.
Head toComic Book Moviefor several more videos. StarringBruce WillisandJai Courtney,A Good Day to Die HardopensFebruary 14, 2013.
Chucky, the murderous doll that launched countless childhood nightmares, is coming back again — but not to the big screen, or at least not yet.Movieholehas learned thatDon Mancini, who directedSeed of Chuckyand has co-written all five Child’s Play movies to date, is now on board to write, direct, and produceCurse of Chucky, a direct-to-DVD sequel for Universal Home Entertainment. Here’s the plotline, according to their sources:
Chucky arrives to wreck havoc within a family that’s regrouped for a funeral. In the wake of her mother’s passing, a young woman – in a wheelchair since birth – is forced to put up with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, the fearless Nica discovers the culprit might be a “strange doll” she was sent a couple of days earlier.
Brad Dourif, who has voiced Chucky throughout the series, will once again reprise his role. The new film is expected to emphasize horror over comedy, and as such will “skip over” the last two more overtly campy sequels altogether, picking up after the scarierChild’s Play 3. Shooting is expected to start this September in Winnipeg. Head toMovieholefor more details.Seth Grahame-Smithhasn’t had time to write hisBeetlejuicesequel just yet, but he’s going to be fielding questions about it until the damn movie gets made. (At which point he’ll just get asked aboutBeetlejuice 3, I’m sure.) But it is clear he’s already putting a lot of thought into it. In a new interview withBleeding Coolhe went a little beyond his usual “we won’t do it unless it’s right” line to expand a little bit on how he wants to use the character:
If Grahame-Smith can pull it off, that sounds great. But as he himself admits, that’s a high bar to pass. “Here’s the problem.Beetlejuicewas a wonderful accident,” he noted. “That was a movie that miraculously and strangely came together in editing. They found this wonderful, strange, irreverent movie in there.[…] That’s the scariest part for me – essentially I’m trying to catch lightning in a bottle. The chance of creating something transcendent twice is very slim.”
Kristen Schaalwill go from explaining women’s issues to Jon Stewart to helpingBill HaderandAnna Farissave the world. TheDaily Showcorrespondent (and former Flight of the Conchords stalker) has signed on forCloudy 2: Revenge of the Leftoversin the role of an orangutan. Schaal has previously done voice work onToy Story 3and the Fox seriesBob’s Burgers.
According toTHR, the animated sequel will follow Flint Lockwood (Hader) and his pals forced to leave Swallow Falls — and then asked to come back again when “sentient food beasts” take over the island. Directed byCody CameronandKris Pearn,Cloudy 2will openFebruary 7, 2014.
