Akiva Goldsman has been a writer for such hits as Batman Forever, Batman and Robin and Lost in Space, but also I am Legend, and the DaVinci Code films and has directed some TV (Fringe and Kings) but if things go well for him his first feature film could be Paranormal Activity 2.
Last month, the L.A. Times reported a number of directors were circling around the sequel to last year’s horror hit. Greg McLean (Rogue), Brad Anderson, Goldsman and Brian De Palma were all names thrown in the pot. But Goldsman, we’re told, is the frontrunner right now.
Frankly, I don’t know that it matters who directs Paranormal Activity 2.
Its the Blair Witch all over again. Paranormal Activity was a hit because there was far more than a film in its buzz. There was the marketing, the reviews, the bigger word of mouth phenom this film became, and in that was the excitement and the terror in the movie.
But do they really need a sequel? How are they going to pitch that? Remember that film that looked so genuine and almost like a documentary that scared you 3 pounds lighter? Cool huh? It was that it looked so real and that it could have actually happened that made it so scary!! Well Hollywood is going to produce and manufacture a sequel trying to recreate the unanticipated success the first film got!
Awesome. Marketing genius. They are trying to make lightning strike the same spot again.
Maybe they will make something worthwhile and surprise me, but when a movie gets this big almost by accident, sequeling it always sounds like a bad idea.
