This one surprises me. The new Pink Panther movie with Steve Martin (who I totally love by the way) wasn’t all the well received (it only scored a 20% on Rotten Tomatoes) and it actually lost money in it’s theatrical release… and yet it appears they’re getting ready to do another one.
The good folks over at Moviehole give us the following:
MGM have already decided to push ahead with a second “Pink Panther” movie. No doubt Steve Martin will be back, as he’s expressed his willingness to continue the character in the mass of interviews he has done of late. (And with that other cash cow of a franchise, “Cheaper by the Dozen”, winding up – apparently they just can’t make deals with the youngsters of the series, who are all too well-known now, so they’ve abandoned plans for a third instalment – he’s beseeching a good franchise to lasso himself to).
i don’t know about this. I would much rather see Martin go on and write more of his own original stuff like he did for Bowfinger, his updated version of Cyrano de Bergerac in Roxanne or The Three Amigos. Leave the silly campy stuff like Cheaper by the Dozen and Panther alone.
