Taxi Driver 2 - Sequel Plans

[dalmatianjaws]

Has Martin Scorsese gone Hollywood?


I think I'm going to hang my enormous paycheck right about ... here.

With what appears to be his first entry into the popular (supernatural?) horror genre, Shutter Island, arriving in two days, is it possible that Martin Scorsese will start making remakes and reboots and sequels and prequels and other current Hollywood trends?

Alright, stupid question. Of course not, this is the groundbreaking visionary that gave us Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, and ....

Oh shit. Taxi Driver 2.


You talkin to me? Are you talkin to me? Hello? This reception is horrible, you should just call my agent.

You read right. Rumors started at the Berlin Film Festival that Scorsese was talking with Lars Von Trier about a new Taxi Driver project. Whether it was a reboot, remake, or sequel - or whether it was true at all - remains to be seen. But Von Trier's producing partner, Peter Aalbæk, will neither confirm nor deny and claims an official statement is forthcoming.

Also, Scorsese recently stated that he and DeNiro are talking about a new project set in the crime world. No one knows if these two projects are connected, but it does seem something is afoot.

What do you think? True or false? Good idea or bad idea?

Genius or folly, I'm intrigued.

Let the fake title contest begin!


Source: The Guardian

[dalmatianjaws]

Taxi Driver 2: Keep the Change

Taxi Driver 2: Follow that Car!

Taxi Driver 2: I Wonder Who Will Try to Shoot the President This Time?

[dnwilliams]

This is why Russell Crowe was right to request the end of Gladiator be changed. Not that they couldn't do a Proximo prequel...

[dalmatianjaws]

Wait, wa? Russell Crose did what?

[dnwilliams]

Maximus didn't die in the original script and Crowe asked for that to change = no sequels and better character ending. Genius.

[twaddington]

Gladiator would have been nowhere near as good had he survived.

Taxi Driver is probably my favourite Scorsese film. Can't work out how a sequel or whatever it is will work though.

Here are my ideas

Taxi Driver 2: Back in the Cab

Taxi Driver 2: Bickle goes bonkers again

Taxi Driver 2: Bickle and Bullwinkle

[Sheridan Passell]

Russell Crowe will be begging for Gladiator 2 in ten years.

Taxi Driver 2: Honk Honk

[dalmatianjaws]

Maximus with long hair to try to hide the fact that he's balding? Ugh

I really don't like that movie much at all, anyway. though I'm one of VERY few


Taxi Driver 2: At Least it isn't Another Fockers Movie

[dalmatianjaws]

Taxi Triver 2: Sequels in Mirror are Shittier than They Appear

[dnwilliams]

I really don't like that movie much at all, anyway.

I wish you could see my horror-struck face right now.

[dalmatianjaws]

I just didn't buy that a mass murderer was a hero just cause he accidentally freed some slaves in the third act. Other than that: good movie.

[Sheridan Passell]

Just to pick up on that first paragraph, Shutter Island is in the same genre as Cape Fear, which was a Martin Scorsese remake.

[dalmatianjaws]

I thought Cape Fear was a thriller?

Consider it fixed

[Sheridan Passell]

Well I'm not quite sure myself, but both seem to tread similar thriller-horror genre territory?

[dnwilliams]

Um, where did you guys get supernatural from? Wasn't the trailer all "You have a missing crazyperson/Oh look, Leo is seeing things - HE'S THE CRAZY PERSON". Or did I miss something?

[dalmatianjaws]

It's going to be drugs. But the entire point is "is it real?" and if it's really a girl turning into ashes in his arms, then it's supernatural, hence teh word used with a question mark within parentheses.

[dnwilliams]

It's going to be drugs.

Or he was always crazy (the missing patient) and he was never an investigator in the first place.

[Sheridan Passell]

No spoilers please, I wanna watch this one in ignorance.



The missing girl turns out to be Ben Kingsley by the way.

[dnwilliams]

Oh yeah, it was a missing girl wasn't it...

Not spoiling, I haven't seen it either, I just thought it looked the opposite of supernatural from the trailer. Explicitly hallucinations, I thought 

[Sheridan Passell]

I mean woman. Missing woman. Female patient/inmate.