TOO MANY JUMP STREETS
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are highly sought after these days, being linked both to the more bro-centric Ghostbusters and The Flash movie. They still have a connection though to 21 Jump Street, the series that helped bridge the gap in their careers in making entertaining movies that no thought would work, from hip new kids on the block (Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs) to all-conquering Hollywood gods (The Lego Movie). They’re working on another sequel and according to Topless Robot, the many sequels shown at the end of 22 Jump Street weren’t just a funny send-up of the diminishing returns of never-ending follow-ups, but are going to be treated as canon. So sayeth the Lord:
We’ve found a way that we love that makes those imagined sequels canonical and yet does something that we haven’t told you about yet,” Lord said. “The sequels are canon.
Whether or not the next film, however numbered it may be (Crisis on Infinite Jump Streets?) will cross-over with Men in Black as has been rumoured remains to be seen.
JUMP SCARE MOVIE JUMP STARTS
The people behind Five Nights At Freddy’s certainly can’t be accused of failing to strike while the iron is hot. The first game was first released at the tail-end of last summer, and in the time it’s taken to become the biggest thing for Youtubers to pretend to be really afraid of, creator Scott Cawthon has made a ton of money, two sequels have come out and now a film is in the pipeline. Some of us haven’t even gotten our hair cut in that time.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Warner Bros. have picked up the rights to make a film out of the series, in which animatronic fast-food mascots are revealed to be just as horrifying as you’d always imagined. Among the producers for the film will be Seth Grahame-Smith, writer of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. “We’re looking forward to working with Scott to make an insane, terrifying and weirdly adorable movie,” Grahame-Smith said, demonstrating a curious understanding of the word ‘adorable’. Fans of the game, rejoice. Fans of horror movies that don’t rely on jump scares, sigh in frustration and/or go to see It Follows again.
MACHETE DON’T CONCLUDE HIS FILM SERIES YET
Where 21 Jump Street is keeping its goofy fake sequels canon but will deny you the pleasure of ever actually seeing 27 Jump Street: Culinary School, the Machete movies are a seemingly unending series of joke movies that turn out to be real. Just as Machete started as a fake Grindhouse trailer and Machete Kills a fake tease at the end of Machete, now the obvious next step, Machete Kills Again In Space is being ha-ha-for-serious’d into existence.
Danny Trejo has said in an interview that he and Robert Rodriguez would be “working on” the next Machete film this year. These films are quick and easy for Rodriguez to make, so you could be seeing Machete kill again (in space) sooner than you think, provided the assortment of ‘hilarious’ cameos can be sorted out in time. It all feels like a bit of a retread for Rodrigue, he really seems to have been juggling the same 4 or 5 ideas for a while now. Supplanted by younger, hungrier directors and now making the same joke-movie over and over. At least Rodriguez and Trejo seem to be entertaining themselves. Don’t be surprised if we see Machete: Culinary School at some point in the next decade.