Salivating for Sequels: Top Gun and Chucky

A sequel to Top Gun?  A remake and a sequel of Child's Play?  Today is my lucky day.

Completely hetrosexual

No I'm not making it up.  Over 25 years after the original gave us an awesome soundtrack, topless men all greased up and playing volleyball on the beach to a song called 'Playing with the Boys', Tom Cruise riding a motorbike and flying the crap out of super speedy jets, fretting about his Dad, shagging Kelly McGillis in an impossibly blue, slow and sexy, sex scene, Goose getting an all time great death and some karaoke lovin' feelin losin comes this news:

Well...

'in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount executive Adam Goodman has confirmed that Top Gun 2 is in pre-production' http://entertainment.stv.tv/film/304999-tom-cruise-gets-jet-set-for-top-gun-sequel-as-pre-production-confirmed/

Well it's about time.  The US Navy needs another big, dumb, cinematic recruitment advert.  Hmmm.  Shame Tony Scott's back.  I wish he could dial back that attention deficit editing.  The writer of Bad Boys 2 is involved which suggests extremely dumb but fun action scenes that will... wait for it... TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY!  I hope Val Kilmer can make an appearance.  And the ghost of Goose.  Heck why not?

Wanna play?

 Then I hear (two weeks after the news breaks but better late than never) Chucky from Child's Play is going to be back!  Now if this was just another sequel I would be concerned after the attempted horror comedies of Bride and Seed of Chucky.  But I still hold the original Child's Play trilogy in high regard.  I loved those movies as a kid so it pleases me to hear:

'original creators Don Mancini and David Kirschner are cooking up a remake that will stray from the more satiric leanings of recent sequels - the last one featured John Waters, after all – and go for "a darker and scarier retelling of the original film, but one that will offer new twists and turns."'
 http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/chucky-childs-play-remake-sequel/

Still terrifying?

However then I read over at Total Film:

'This new episode in the long-running franchise will be titled Revenge Of Chucky, and will again focus on the killer doll's immediate family, in a similar vein to Bride Of Chucky and Seed Of Chucky.

As for the remake, Dourif indicated that original writer Don Mancini is still working on  script, with the theme thought to be a lot lighter and comedic than the original.'
 http://www.totalfilm.com/news/childs-play-remake-and-sequel-on-the-way

Well I hope they're wrong about the remake.  I want to see Child's Play back to it's dark roots.  I know it seems silly and ripe for comedic treatment but to me Chucky is still a little psycho and a terrifying alternative to Woody and Buzz coming alive when you're not watching.

What do you think readers? Does this news spell the end of the world or are you as excited as I am?

Orange memories. Missing Mr Dresden.

Remember when the Orange Wednesday Adverts were funny?  Remember the Orange film funding board and Mr Dresden and his product and promotion obsessed cronies dishing out money to stars to help fund their vanity projects.  I used to look forward to seeing these before a movie. 

Officially known as "Orange Gold Spots", the adverts feature short sketches involving various celebrities.  The fictional Orange executives started out hearing pitches from stars including Sean Astin and Rob Lowe, then after many, many adverts moved into the world of producing the films of the likes of Macaulay Culkin and Val Kilmer with frequently very funny results.  Recently Mr Dresden and his team have disappeared from the adverts and they’ve never been the same since.  So here is my salute to the best, the great, the good, and the just ok of the now disbanded Orange Film Funding Board.  Thank God they’re fictional.

The Best

Sean Astin is good with the goblins

Darth Vader underestimates the power of the Orange side

Rob Lowe’s a sex object

Steven Seagal pitches a rom-com

Roy Scheider’s gonna need a bigger boat

Patrick Swayze is a mute assassin

The Great

Anjelica Huston is creepy

Verne Troyer needs one million pounds

Macauley Culkin’s all grown up

Val Kilmer is difficult to work with

The Good

Snoop Dogg

John Cleese has a funny walk

Mena Suvari swaps leading for cheerleading

Michael Madsen is the call box killer

Sigourney Weaver and snake

Dennis Hopper pitches on the bus

The OK

Danny Glover in Dial Hard

Juliette Lewis is going to sue

Ewan Macgregor makes poverty history

Spike Lee’s down with Orange

Carrie Fisher’s pitch

Daryl Hannah dazzles Mr Dresden

Emilio on the red carpet

Now there’s no more Mr Dresden and pals but at least The Muppets one is quite funny.

And Jack Black’s was ok

And the A Team’s had its moments

Just don’t mention the bloody awful Rio one.  What's your favourite?  Anyone up for starting a petition to get Mr Dresden back?