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Jeff Bridges Wants to Reunite With Karen Allen for a Sequel to John Carpenter’s ‘Starman’
The only John Carpenter film to be nominated for an Academy Award was 1984’s Starman, which nabbed Jeff Bridges a Best Actor in a Leading Role nomination. In the sci-fi film, Bridges’ titular “Starman” arrives on Earth and ultimately impregnates a human woman, played by Karen Allen. Talk about sequel potential, am I right?
Like Carpenter’s Halloween, Bridges hopes that Starman someday gets a decades-later sequel, and the actor tells The Wrap that he’d love to return and reunite with Allen for such a film.
“It’s all set up, very much like [Big] Lebowski, like the Little Dude. The Dude in the oven,” Bridges told the site. “In Starman, Karen Allen, she’s got a bun in the oven as well.”
“Karen Allen and I have been jammin’ on different ideas,” he added.
As you may recall, “Stranger Things” producer Shawn Levy was attached to direct a Starman reboot/remake a couple years back. Bridges, to date, hasn’t been contacted to return.
“I was a little disappointed to hear that they’re making a sequel to it already, I think it’s underway… or they’re redoing it or something. … I don’t think we’ve been contacted. I don’t know if John has, but I’d be curious,” Bridges explained to the site.
Levy himself offered up a statement to the site, updating on the status of his Starman.
“Starman is very much in the script development stage still and the timeline for if and when it will go into production is still unclear,” Levy revealed. “As a huge fan of the original film and these incredible actors, I would absolutely do everything in my power to involve them in some meaningful way, should I get the privilege of telling a new version of this amazing and poignant story.”
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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