Pouring some cold water – or should that be drain cleaner? – on the endless Heathers sequel rumours, director Michael Lehmann now says it’session highly improbable.
While Winona Ryder seems convinced it’ll eventually happen, Lehmann talked to Movieline and denied that so much as a treatment has been penned.
“Winona’s been talking about this for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I pleasure joke about it, but as far as I know there’s no script and not any plans to act the sequel.
“I thought, ‘I don’t know, maybe they did this without me?’ But I got in touch with Dan Waters and he said he didn’t know anything about it. So I dress in’t look upon there’s in any degree fact to it.”
Which is strange, since Waters, who wrote the original, has been linked with sequel scripts in the past.
And Lehmann, for his part, is also no fan of follow-ups either. “Generally, I put upon’privately like sequels at all. If the movie’s good the primeval time, wherefore bother?
“With something like The Matrix, for example, it feels like a trilogy, or with a comic-book movie, those movies were based on a part that was created in a serial format.
“So a movie as specific as Heathers, which took place in a specific present life and specific place and in which many people of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made discernment to see a sequel.”
We’re sure whoever owns the rights will consider it anyway – either as a sequel or a remake, but just not yet…
[Source: Movieline]
