That's A Wrap! #4: Sequels! Lots and lots of sequels!

Hello and welcome to That's A Wrap! The weekly film post where I wrap up the news for this week.

It looks as though my worst fears are about to come alive! It has been reported that Liam Neeson will return for Taken 3 after being offered $20 million.  Taken 2 for me was possibly one of the worst sequel let downs in cinema history.  Not only was it tame and less gory but it was such a bore. Even Neeson himself looked bored throughout the whole film and the film must be really bad if an actor looks bored even when knowing he has a big pay cheque for doing it.  For me the only way Taken 3 will work is if Neeson this time is at a fair with his family and he has just won a pet gold fish, which gets taken and Neeson must find and save it using his certain set of skills.  Finding Nemo and Taken are slightly similar so why not mash them together?

It has been talked for a long time now about the upcoming Steven Jobs film with Aston Kutcher starring as the creator behind apple.  The trailer this week was released and if I'm honest it doesn't look like it's going to be another Social Network at all.  The trailer for was too cheesy and it made you feel what was shown in front of you didn't happen at all.  I know in The Social Network they did exaggerate certain sections of the film but the drama really gripped you as an audience member and you wanted to carry on watching.  With the case of Jobs because the film looks too corny I feel as though I'll be rolling my eyes and be more and more less gripped as the film progresses.

The news that's probably attracted the film media most this week is Jim Carrey's withdrawal support for the heavy violence in the upcoming Kick-Ass 2, which he co-stars in.  The Sandy Hook tragedy seems to have changed the comic star's view on the film's high amount of gore, which I find to be totally understandable.  However, it seems as though this unexpected news has disappointed Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar who wrote on his blog:

“[I'm] baffled by this sudden announcement,” said Millar, “as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in the screenplay eighteen months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin."

“A sequel to the picture that gave us Hit-Girl was always going to have some blood on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first movie so much…” 

“This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorsese and Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Chan-Wook Park, Kick-Ass avoids the usual bloodless body-count of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of the consequences of violence…”

Though I see where Millar is coming from, the film is fictional and has nothing do with the Sandy Hook tragedy I still believe an actor has a right to say when he isn't comfortable promoting a film like Kick Ass 2.