1.19.05
Well, it's quite overdue for an update, and really, there's nothing
positive to report. Here's the rundown of news from 2004 - Roger
Avary's Phantasm's End script has been dubbed too expensive for
the proposed budget, and so, a similar Don Coscarelli script will be produced
as Phantasm V after the Bubba Ho-Tep sequel to completed.
This could mean another two or three YEARS of waiting before the final
chapter in the franchise comes around - about ten years after the last
installment. Why presidence is being made for a Bubba Ho-Tep
sequel as opposed to the final Phantasm film is beyond me.
I'm sure there are more people anxiously awaiting Phantasm V than
a Bubba Ho-Tep sequel (I certainly am). Most fans have been
waiting for some definitive answers in this franchise since 1979, and it'll
take nearly three decades to get them. I understand the need to gain
funding for the film, but it doesn't seem like, other than scriptwriting,
that anything is being done to further pre-production on the film.
Angus Scrimm to committed to doing one more Phantasm film, and NO,
Bruce Campbell has no potential role in this new script despite Coscarelli
saying he'd love for him to be involved. So, ultimately there's probably
not gonna be a lot of activity for Phantasm V for some time.
2.22.04
As of this time, Don Coscarelli has stated that the fifth installment
of the Phantasm saga will not go into production until sufficient
funding has been garnered. Though, now that Bubba Ho-Tep has
run its theatrical course, Coscarelli has also stated that he would move
into getting Phantasm's End into some form of pre-production.
Rumors of Evil Dead & Bubba Ho-Tep star Bruce Campbell appearing
in Phantasm's End have so far been mostly denied, but it's not entirely
impossible that it will happen. The old synopsis of the film is somewhat
similar to that of Aliens. Reggie joins a group of U.S. Marines
to go into the "Red Planet" to find and destroy the Tall Man and his armies
of the undead. By this time, America has mostly become a desolate
land (as glimpsed by Mike & Jody in Phantasm: Oblivion).
Whether that premise has changed or not, I do not know. In any case,
Coscarelli won't go into this without the right budget to conclude the
Phantasm
saga properly and the way it deserves to end. FOREVER HORROR will
continue its pledge to only report on reliable and CONFIRMED news and information
regarding this motion picture project! |
