howling 8 or a lost boys sequal?

[labambabenitez]

both need to be done and done properly, howling 5 was a cracker in my opinion but ive yet to see howling 8 or the lost boys 2 getting a push to be made

[Noel]

There was a rumour going round not too long ago about someone wanting to remake "The Howling". I don't really see why its necessary since the original was great, and it was already remade as Howling IV. As for future sequels I wonder who, if anyone, now owns the copyright on the Howling name? Does anyone even WANT to own it after Howling VII? Or touch this franchise with a ten-foot pole?

Lost Boys 2 would be tricky ... I love that movie, but for me its very much tied to the 80s. It would be hard to capture the right "feel" in a modern sequel.

[weredog]

"Joel Schumacher's got a bat-nipple to suck with Warner Bros. He ain't happy.

The veteran filmmaker is apparently spitting chips that Warner Bros have decided to make a direct-to-video sequel to his 1987 vampire fave, “The Lost Boys” (one of several direct-to-DVD sequels that the studio has in the works; another that was recently announced was "New Jack City 2"). Schumacher himself had been trying to do a spin-off for years, one that would have centred on female vampires, but the studio never went for the idea. He says the sequel idea would never work - because all the characters are either dead or have moved on.

"I told them to do 'Lost Girls' and not do 'Lost Boys Sequel,'" Schumacher tells RottenTomatoes.com. "There is no 'Lost Boys' sequel. All the boys are dead. The Coreys are too old. So what would be the movie? You'd have to make up a whole new set of characters."

He reminds the site that he told "them to do 'Lost Girls.' It'd be great. I said, 'Do gorgeous teenage biker chicks who are vampires. It'll be great.' But they don't listen to me."

The director says studios have asked him to sequelize some of his other films, and he has refused – which in turn gives the studio free reign to do what they want with them. "There is no sequel to 'Flatliners' in my mind, but they own those. You don't own them. You're not yours. They did '8mm 2' which we knew nothing about. They slapped the title on a movie that had nothing to do with 8mm. I think it was direct to DVD because the '8mm' DVD made so much."

“The Lost Boys 2”, from Warner Premiere, is being filmed in San Diego early this year, and at this stage, neither Corey has been contacted about appearing in it. That's three people now spitting chips.

Meantime, IESB caught up with the filmmaker too, who told them he'd love to make a film out of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"."

[Noel]

Sounds like its going to suck pretty hard. And not in a good way.

[dedwyre]

"Lost Boys" doesn't need a sequel. It's good enough to stand alone.

[Werewolf]

dedwyre said:

"Lost Boys" doesn't need a sequel. It's good enough to stand alone.

Too right. Plus it's too late to do one now, it wouldn't be the same without the original cast plus as has already been said it was very much an 80's movie and i'm not sure a sequel would work.

I can't see how much further they could take the Howling movies, they are pretty much a spent force. And i definately wouldn't agree with a remake. Why remake a good movie? There's nothing about it i would want to remake, perhaps the exception of Dee's end transformation scene!

[labambabenitez]

id like to see, em but they would HAVE to be done well, if you love a film like the lost boys so much you need your taste for the film refreshing

[labambabenitez]

did i really spell sequel......sequal? lol

[Werewolf]

labambabenitez said:

did i really spell sequel......sequal? lol

We knew what you meant!

[furryk]

I thought I read somewhere recently that Gary Brandner was in talks to re-invent the Howling series, not remake the original. He wants to improve upon them and make them more true to the books. A quick search of the 'net hasn't revealed anything though.

[esxbiker]

Be warned, about 2 years ago a read on UCM that a ""Lost Girls"" was in the pipe line with Britney Spears being cast. Good idea for a film, But please no. NOT BRITNEY SPEARS!!!!!!

[ArcLight]

Not too long ago they were back to making it "Lost Boys 2" and bringing back the Coreys.

[Werewolf]

esxbiker said:

Be warned, about 2 years ago a read on UCM that a ""Lost Girls"" was in the pipe line with Britney Spears being cast. Good idea for a film, But please no. NOT BRITNEY SPEARS!!!!!!

I'd only pay to see a movie with Britney Spears in it if she dies horribly within the first few minutes. Preferably it would be a snuff movie!

Only reason i saw House of Wax was cos i knew Paris Hilton would get killed in it. Mind you i didn't pay to see it, i watched it on sky one night.

[Marcus]

I've also heard about the sequal for lost boys, but don't know too much about it.

I don't think it'd be impossible to do, if they were smart enough to use the title, but not try to make too strong a tie-in with the original. Maybe set it around a rockband - or follow up on the grandfathers comment about how there are all those damn vampires living in the city. So it keeps the setting but maybe deals with a group of homeless that are being hunted by the various vampire groups to increase their numbers.

Something like that anyway.

[Marcus]

As for a Howling sequal - they'd need something truely good to save the name after all those rather bad sequals. I hope they do, as the first one is one of my favourite films, and I was always disappointed with how the sequals went with just cashing in on the name, rather then progressing the story and setting.