I wonder if this does good if Hollywood will decide to green light more requels to 90's big budget VHS classics. Contact and Armageddon maybe? I think I'm with most that Armageddon with 2022 eyes is not great, but a requel could be relevant. NASA literally recruited an offshore oil rig engineer as an astronaut just last year, also they just tested that anti-asteroid rocket. That movie is actually is more realistic now than it was 25 years ago lol
They could finally let Ben Affleck sacrifice himself for the sake of the planet.. the twist, however, is that it was the wrong asteroid.
*old, senior looking cow comes flying by the truck* Bill and Jo’s daughter: I think that’s the same one again.
They should make this a franchise with sequels of the same team of storm chasers taking on different meteorological phenomena. Hurricane, Blizzard, Heat Wave, ect
Universal is obviously trying to compete in the franchise/IP mining game. I wonder how much Universal is trying to lobby Spielberg to get on board with making new Jaws and E.T.
When I was a very young child my aunt and uncle bought me an E.T. poster for Christmas because my parents apparently told them I really liked the movie even though, in all actuality, it scared the shit out of me (Elliott, what are you doing sleeping outside next to a shed in a whole ass bed and who even helped you put it out there, my god kid where is your mom). My parents then put it on the back of my bedroom door so that E.T. was staring at me through the dark when it was closed. This led to me sleeping like a mummy with the blankets over my head and covering my eyes with only my mouth and nose just barely visible. To this day I cannot kick the habit. I have tried like hell not to sleep like that and I just can’t. Anyway, one night after falling asleep once my morbid fear of E.T. waddling through my door subsided, I had this vivid dream of an E.T. sequel set at Christmastime where he came back to visit Elliott and he was dressed like Santa and was on someone’s roof and somebody was after him I think. The dream was so vivid that when I woke up I thought there was really an E.T. Christmas sequel for the longest time and I remember asking my mom about it and her staring at me like I was nuts because I was so insistent. I found out a long time after that there was an idea kicked around at one point for a sequel, “Nocturnal Fears”, but the plot of that was a seriously far cry from a happy Christmas movie (Jesus, Steven). Anyway, imagine my shock and mild trauma recall when this popped up a few years ago. I just went looking for the poster I had as a kid and oh god this is the one.
I knew about the Helen Hunt thing and it makes me really pissed. They clearly didn't take her seriously.
I think I recognize one of those people and it's the actor that's in the current season of Mando that I'm still working through haa
Sadly Bill Paxton passed away a few years ago. I do hope Helen Hunt at least has a cameo of some sort.