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[Yesterday, Variety published an article announcing a sequel to "It's a Wonderful Life." TIME, USA Today, the LA Times, Huffington Post, and others announced the news. Much of the internet scoffed and scorned the idea. The Wise Guise and friends nearly went into absolute shock. But, ironically, our very own Sutter Vaught (who has argued against It's a Wonderful Life in the past) did some research that shows all of this news is most likely a big ol' hoax!] It should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the blog during the holiday season that The Wise Guise and friends were sent into a fit bordering on frothy rage at yesterday’s announcement of an up-and-coming sequel to It’s A Wonderful Life. From the Variety article: Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods. are collaborating on production of a sequel to Frank Capra’s iconic 1946 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which starred Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. The sequel, titled “It’s a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story,” is being financed by Allen J. Schwalb of Star Partners who will also produce along with Bob Farnsworth of Hummingbird. The duo are aiming to get the movie into theaters for the 2015 holiday season. Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey’s daughter “Zuzu” in the original, will return for the “Wonderful Life” sequel as an angel who shows Bailey’s unlikeable grandson (also named George Bailey) how much better off the world would have been had he never been born. Grimes, of course, bellowed the iconic line “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings!” in the original movie, about a troubled family man (Stewart) whose near-suicide on Christmas Eve brings on the intervention of his guardian angel. Farnsworth and Martha Bolton have written the screenplay. However, as the Internet, ourselves included, worked itself into a hyperbolic rage over this sacrilege, our very own in-house skeptic, Sutter “Die Hard was better” Vaught put on his old-timey reporter hat and hit the mean streets of Google to ask the tough questions. What he found may shock you.* Or not, if you’ve ever heard Dan Aykroyd talk about Ghostbusters 3 and/or have used the Internet more than twice. Point being, this movie we’re all panicking about? It ain’t happening. - First off, let’s talk about the production companies. While I’m sure they are really awesome and successful in their own rights, they don’t seem particularly suited to this kind of project. Hummingbird Productions, based in Nashville, specializes in advertising jingles. It appears they’ve done some great work in that field, but don’t really have a track record in feature films. Star Partners has been involved in the production of some solid films (Thelma and Louise, Road House), but does not appear to have done much of anything in Hollywood for the past twenty years. - The writers are listed as Bob Farnsworth (of Hummingbird) and Martha Bolton. Mr. Farnsworth is a composer who apparently originated the Budweiser frogs, but has no screenwriting credits to his name. Ms. Bolton wrote for a ton of Bob Hope specials, but her recent resume is fairly limited. - Karolyn “Zuzu Bailey” Grimes delighted audiences as George’s youngest in 1946. But she has not acted on film since her uncredited turn in 1952′s Hans Christian Andersen. A unknown writing duo, an untested production company, and an actress who hasn’t been on a set since the Eisenhower administration? Surely, I thought, whoever owns the rights to this incredibly valuable property wouldn’t turn it over to this crew, at least not at a price they could afford. But that led me to my next question: who owns the rights to IAWL? Well, it turns out that IAWL has kind of an interesting IP history, but in the end, it appears that Paramount owns the property. The same Paramount that owns a piece of Indiana Jones, Star Trek, and Friday the 13th. It’s a company that knows the value of a franchise, which means there’s no way in hell they’d give up a property as valuable as It’s a Wonderful Life, at least not in the manner suggested by today’s story. Now, I don’t know what motives lay behind today’s announcement. Maybe the parties involved sincerely hope to make this project a reality and believed that a big new story would generate enough momentum to make it happen, or maybe they’re looking for publicity for some other project. And I don’t know why all the mainstream outlets reporting the story did not undertake the ten minutes of Googling that led me down this path, but hey, this kind of a story is obviously easy and effective click bait. And hey, maybe I’m totally off-base and you can call me on it when It’s a Wonderful Life II starring Jaden Smith as George Bailey III and Lindsay Lohan as Ms. Potter hits theaters in time for Christmas 2014. But for now, I call bullshit. We can all take a deep breath and know that our cinematic sacred cows rest temporarily undefiled.
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Priprema se nastavak klasičnog božićnog filma „Divan život“ Scenarij koji potpisuju Martha Bolton i Bob Farnsworth baš se i ne čini kao značajan odmak od originalne priče, ali uostalom, zašto bi se i trudili? Dočekali smo i to, ta ta ta ta: klasični božićni film Franka Capre „Divan život" („It's a Wonderful Life") dobit će nastavak, i to nevjerojatno maštovitog naslova - „Divan život: Ostatak priče" ("It's a Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story"). Glavni junak ponovno će biti George Bailey, ali ovaj je put riječ o unuku onog pravog Georgea Baileyja kojeg je igrao James Stewart, dok će Baileyjeva kćer Zuzu u nastavku postati anđeo kojem je zadatak pokazati Baileyju junioru kakav bi bio svijet da se on nije nikada rodio. Uglavnom, ovako na prvu, scenarij koji potpisuju Martha Bolton i Bob Farnsworth baš se i ne čini kao značajan odmak od originalne priče, ali uostalom, zašto bi se i trudili? Caprin se film gotovo sedamdeset godina jako dobro drži i na većini televizijskih kanala koji drže do sebe pouzdani je adut božićnog programa pa se kompanijama Star Partners i Hummigbird Prods. učinilo mudrim uložiti između 25 i 35 milijuna dolara u nastavak. Spomenuti budžet već su potvrdili, no redatelja i glumce tek trebaju pronaći što planiraju učiniti početkom sljedeće godine, dok je plan da film bude spreman za kina u božićnoj sezoni 2015. Više o nastavku filma „Divan život" možete pročitati na portalu Nemilosrdni gadovi.