The third Phibes movie 'Dr.Phibes in the Holy land'
Vincent Price says it here in this interwiev i foud on the net.
VINCENT PRICE: Well, it's a hard job to get a picture done
in England these days. It's so expensive, and the reason they
did them over there was that it was cheaper. I think, also,
AIP decided that they were going to be classy. They were trying
to go high class, which never worked. The film they did with
Ingrid Bergman and Liza Minelli (A MATTER OF TIME) was a disaster.
That really isn't their forte, or their medium. They should just
turn out good entertainment pictures and let it go at that. But
you know they all become grand sooner or later. There is a marvelous
third script for DR. PHIBES, called DR. PHIBES IN THE HOLY LAND
(laughter). I was talking with Milt Moritz (a vice-president at AIP),
and I said to him, "Why don't you make it?" The other two films have
a tremendous following and it's a very funny script. Remember at the
end of the last one (DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN), we were in Egypt and
I sang, "Over The Rainbow" (Unfortunately, in a dispute over the music
rights, Price's singing of Over the Rainbow has been eliminated from
all the videotapes of DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN). I won't do another PHIBES
film, unless Robert Fuest directs it. He's the only person in the world,
who is mad enough to direct the Dr. Phibes films. He's a genuine,
registered nut! He even looks like a madman. He's all over the place,
like an unmade bed. What imagination he has. They were all his ideas.
LAWRENCE FRENCH: Who wrote the third Phibes script?
VINCENT PRICE: The same people who wrote the other two. Bob would be
wonderful doing this one, but they all get scared of doing similar
things. They get frightened that they're going to be stuck in it. Yet
Bob has never done anything that was nearly as good as the DR. PHIBES
films.
LAWRENCE FRENCH: Yes, he even turned down directing THEATER OF BLOOD,
because he felt he would be remaking what he had already done in the two
DR. PHIBES films.
VINCENT PRICE: Bob sent me a script last year (1978) that was
dreadful, absolutely dreadful. It didn't make a word of sense.
It was just sort of a mish-mash. I mean, you will go along with a
script if you think that the director is going to bring a lot to it,
but it was not a question of that because there was nothing he could
bring to it. It was just not a good script. I understand he had some
money to make it in Italy, and then it all fell through.
(taken from a 1978 interview conducted by Lawrence French with Vincent Price.):
Isnt it sad that they never made the third movie?
Who knows it could have been great, its much cooler with three films than two.