Ok, as some of you may remember, WAY back in April we had Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on the Uncut LIVE show (which is on tonight by the way at 6pm EST), where they revealed for the first time that there was indeed going to be a Crank 2. They also said that it was going to be a sequel, not a prequel.
The folks over at Empire have picked up on that while talking to the two directors and got them to spill a little bit more on the upcoming film they’re set to start shooting next year:
“Crank 2 will pick up exactly where Crank one ends,” says Taylor. “It’s a true sequel. Jason Statham will return. It’s not a prequel, it’s not his brother, it’s not a dream sequence. He will [scrape himself off the floor]”.
“We’re finding that a lot of people were thinking, ‘Oh, Crank 2 can’t be done’,” adds Neveldine. “But we came up with an idea, we wrote the script, and after the studio read it they couldn’t believe that we pulled it off. And of course, the best test was giving it to Jason and Jason turned down every other project so he could do this, start this in the spring of next year. He was so excited, he couldn’t believe it”
Well that all sounds good! I’m actually a really big fan of the first Crank film and I personally just love the approach these two guys take to making movies (Their newest film that they wrote and produced is Pathology which comes out in November).
But still… I mean come on…. the dude fell like 10,000 feet from a helicopter, smashed through a car, bounced off and hit the pavement! How the HELL are they going to explain him not just being one big puddle???? I think I’ll buy them like 8 beers when I see them in November and ask them. That’s going to be a hard one for me to accept.
