Streets of Fire 2?
Do you think it would be a good idea? who should act and direct it? should it be a remake or the continuation?
shareA remake would ruin it, and considering that this movie came out 23 years ago, everyones aged alot and that would mean little to none of the original cast would come back for a sequel, and I don't know about you, but I wouldn't see a sequel without the same main actors reprising their roles.
shareso what if the original cast is older, older is good just have it take place after the first one. I WANTA STREETS OF FIRE 2!!!!!!
shareWe're not talking about "Yeah, they're kinda older, aren't they?"
We're talking about nearly a quarter century. Remember how much Paul Newman aged between The Hustler and The Color of Money? Going from the new talented hot young kid to being the grey haired old warhorse? We're just two years away from having the same time passage since Streets of Fire that Newman had there. That one worked because A) the sequel only carried forward the *one* compelling character that you wondered about; and B) the original movie depicted a self-destructive talent as the main protagonist, which opened the door for a sequel about his redemption.
In this case you have neither of those things going for you. As much fun as this movie was, there wasn't any one single compelling character that makes you wonder: How did they turn out as a middle-aged man / woman? Also, since SoF finished with an upbeat, good-guys-win ending, there isn't a lingering story of redemption here that's waiting to be told.
Assembling the whole old cast of characters (or even a good percentage of them) would come across feeling very forced and contrived at this point. I mean, what are you going to do? Have Billy and Ellen's teenage kid get kidnapped ...... by Raven, I suppose, for some long simmering revenge ..... so naturally they track down the now 50-ish run-down ex-mercenaries Cody and McCoy as the "best people" to get the kid back? I don't think so.
And all of that is ignoring the practical issues. This was one of those rare movies that cast almost entirely near-unknowns at the time ..... and had a whole bunch of them go on to become much more prominent. It would cost a comparative fortune just to reassemble this cast again at today's going rates for their services. I don't see a sequel to Streets of Fire being considered sure fire enough at the box office to convince any studio to give it a big enough budget for that to happen.
It's a nice idea but unlikely, especially with the same cast.
The original budget of "STREETS OF FIRE" was $14 million I believe.
DIANE LANE alone gets $6 million a movie now.
BILL PAXTON and WILLEM DAFOE wouldn't come cheap either.
It's amazing to see the difference between the trajectories of the three main characters: Diane Lane (HUGE,) Michael Pare (GONE,) and Rick Moranis (NOTHING OF LATE, BUT A DOZEN GOOD MOVIES AFTER STREETS...And before, does anybody remember him in John Wayne's The Cowboys?)
Da Foe is a major commodity in Hollywood these days. Bill Paxton less so, but is still enjoying a nice career. Amy Madigan has evolved into an actress tackling much more serious roles.
Didya notice a couple of the bit players? Rick Rossovich as the young cop? He of Roxanne and a some other decent roles. Ed Begley Jr as the crazy guy who has a couple of lines in the street?
You could do Streets of Fire 2, but it would never work. One of the main reasons the movie was so good was that Walter Hill was at his PEAK and he made a hell of a movie. I'm not sure what he's doing these days.
Think Basic Instinct 2, and all the other bad sequels that are made many years after the original.
The exception to this is Aliens, which is almost as good as the first. Godfather 2 also, but that came only a couple of years after the first.
"Rick Moranis (NOTHING OF LATE, BUT A DOZEN GOOD MOVIES AFTER STREETS...And before, does anybody remember him in John Wayne's The Cowboys?)"
Rick Moranis wasn't in The Cowboys. That was Robert Carradine (Revenge Of The Nerds).
"Rick Moranis (NOTHING OF LATE, BUT A DOZEN GOOD MOVIES AFTER STREETS"
5 years too late, but Rick Moranis retired for the most part in the 1990s after his wife died of cancer, leaving him with their very small children to raise. He's said after the first few years he realized he didn't enjoy making movies anymore.
It could be done today. Jessica Alba as Ellen Aim and Ashton Kutcher as Tom Cody.
shareNoooooo!
shareYikes! Kutcher as Tom Cody, no way.
shareA second movie would be nice,but I'm not sure,what the story should about!Telling,what happened with Cody,McCoy and Ellen during the last 23 years????
I'm not sure,whether that would be so interesting.
I think,it could be interesting to make a movie with Lane and Pare.It would be nice to see them now so many years later working together again.Look at the team Gere-Roberts with 'Runaway Bride' or Bullock-Reeves with 'Lake House'.I would love to see Lane-Pare now working together again,too!
Or DIANE LANE and RICHARD GERE. How many movies have they done together!!!??
COTTON CLUB (1984)
UNFAITHFUL (200) for which LANE won an Oscar
NIGHTS IN RODANTHE (2007)
They MUST like each other!?
IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK...
jenna dewan and channing tatum or steven ameil from arrow
spectre can
suck it.