Years ago (in what had to have been among my first articles for CHUD) I wrote about the possibility of a Cronenberg-helmed remake of The Fly. At the time this was replacing rumors that the film was up for a simple Hollywood reboot, so the dubious idea of Cronenberg retreading that ground was at least interesting. It was a weird idea, but surely better than it going through the machine and suffering a similar fate as it appears another classic 80s remake, The Thing, has suffered. In any event, that remake obviously never manifested, and now Shock Till You Drop has gotten a little clarification from Cronenberg himself about that rumored project…
“The Fly [3?] is not exactly a remake, it’s sort of a sequel, kinda. Yeah, that was a thing. I’ve written a script of that, and I don’t know if that’s going to really happen, but that has to do with Fox.”
I like that Cronenberg says “that was a thing.” I use that phrase a lot and get shit for it frequently.
So Dave has a script that somehow expands the established Fly universe sitting on a hard drive somewhere, and nothing has come of it? I’m glad details haven’t leaked if it’s a project that could still potentially materialize, but then again if he’s not exceptionally passionate about it I’m not sure it’s a good idea anyway. I think we’d all love to see Cronenberg dip his toe back in the body horror genre one of these days, and a Fly revisit could be a fun way of doing it, but only if he really believes in it.
Since the writer/director put pen to paper on this sequel/sidequel himself, I assume it has nothing to do with the scrapped Fly 2 treatment that had Seth Brundle return as a trapped consciousness in a computer program. So what characters might it include, and in what ways might he expand the story? Could be quite a while before we ever find out.
The past few years we’ve heard much more about an Eastern Promises sequel, and Cronenberg is a little more willing to acknolwedge that project as a possibility. Again though, he mentions only that a second draft is being written and then “we’ll see.”
Clearly Cronenberg is not a man to go out on a limb and jinx himself.
Now that A Dangerous Method is getting out there, what direction would you like to see Cronenberg move in next after Cosmopolis?
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Eastern Promises 2, without a doubt. I read an interview with Vincent Cassel from last year I beleive, and he referenced what I’d assume was the first draft of the script, also by Steven Knight, wherein he (Kilik) and Nikolai go to Russian to run the family…geez, can you imagine the possibilities? This could easily become a modern, Russian Godfather series. And imagine if he did a third one and stuck the landing. Holy moley chief.
Go to Russia*
I’m with Jazzy. A russian godfather sounds… Well, it sounds unique and different and amazing, so it’ll never happen.
You’re a thing, Renn.
“Yeah, that was a thing”… is usually what I say after I burn someone to death…or when I refuse to defibrillate someone having a “heart attack”.
“Yeah, that was a thing,” is what I said after I saw Cowboys & Aliens.
Oh, and I’d love to see a Fly 3. These days I’ll happily take a sequel to something over a prequel or a reboot.
Gahhh. KIRIL. Not Kilik. I was imagining the guy with the staff from Soul Caliber maybe.
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