Posted by Kirk in Comedy, Franchises, General News, Movies, Sequels | 2 comments
New Line Developing VACATION Sequel
It’s time to tie up old Dinky, the Family Truckster is going back out on the road. As reported over at Heat Vision Blog, New Line is developing a sequel to the 1983 classic, ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation,’ which starred Chevy Chase.
The new film, which is to be produced and possibly directed by David Dobkin, would follow the adventures of the son from the original, Rusty Griswold, who, now a father of his own, takes his family on a road trip vacation. Chase and Beverly D’Angelo could possibly be making appearances as grandparents.
The new project came about as Warner Brothers, who owns the rights to the original film, took on New Line as part of the studio. Exec Sam Brown began going through WB’s titles to find a suitable reboot/sequel, and came across ‘Vacation.’
New Line is meeting with writers this week, and their hopes are to make the film more in line with ‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’ or ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ rather than ‘RV’ or ‘Are We There Yet?’.
OK, decent concept compared to what else is being thrown out right now. But what's wrong with making it more like the original Vacation? You know, skeezy, dirty R-rated. No, we have to make everything like something that was recently made just so people can get over it as quickly as they loved it. And by the way, Little Miss Sunshine was good but nowhere nearly as great as people thought it was. There I said it.
A new writing team has written a prequel to the Vacation series titled, "Honeymoon". From what I hear the story line follows Clark and Ellen from engagement, to wedding, and honeymoon mixed in with a present day story line of Audrey (Juliette Lewis) getting married in Los Angeles. Sounds like a great way to work in the old cast plus introduce the "next generation" Clark Griswald. Thoughts??