Gone Crazy and Back Again by Robert Sam Anson

That is such an irresistible premise that I”m dying to see what Sayles ends up making. According to Roger Friedman, who broke the news, the film is set a full 50 years after the first film, and Django is now a horse wrangler on the set of D.W. What I find most exciting about this project is that it sounds like Sayles is taking the exploitation origins of the Django series and using them to jump off and make something very, very different. We seem to have made room for leads like Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I”ll bet Nero could have been even bigger with the right films under his belt. The guy is pretty much just raw onscreen charisma, and I wonder if he could have had that bigger career if he had come along fifteen years later or so. Instead, he wrote with the same degree of invention and dedication, and as a result, many of those movies have aged incredibly well, better than a lot of the drive-in fare of the same era.įranco Nero should have been a bigger movie star. When he wrote a script like The Howling or Alligator or Battle Beyond The Stars, he didn”t treat those jobs as garbage. While I love Sayles and the diversity of his output as a writer/director, I admit a certain fondness for his genre work.

Today”s delightful news is that John Sayles is going to direct Django Lives with Franco Nero returning to play the title character. Hollywood decided to get me all sorts of presents this month, and they”re just spacing them out so I don”t explode from joy on my actual birthday.

Gone Crazy and Back Again by Robert Sam Anson