No plans for a Heathers sequel
The filmmakers say it’s unlikely…
Pouring some cold water – or should that be drain cleaner? – on the endless Heathers sequel rumours, director Michael Lehmann now says it’s highly unlikely.
While Winona Ryder seems convinced it’ll eventually hap♛pen, Lehmann talked to Movieline and denied that so much as a treatment has been penned.
“Winona’s been talking about t🐈his for years — she brings it up every once in a while and Dan Waters and I will joke about it, but as far as I know there’s no script and no plans to do the sequel.
“I thought, ‘I don’t know, maybe they did this without me?🔜’ But I gotꦰ in touch with Dan Waters and he said he didn’t know anything about it. So I don’t think there’s any truth to it.”
Which is strange, since Waters, who wrote the origina🧸l, has been linked with sequel scripts in the past.
And Lehmann, for his part, is also no fan of follow-ups either. “Generally, I don&rsqu🌌o;t like sequels at all. If the movie’s good the first time, why bother?
"With something like The Matrix, for example, it feels like a trilogy, or with a comic-book movie, those movies were based on something that was created in a serial format.
“So a movie as specific ꦺas Heathers, which took place in a specific time and specific place and in which many of the characters got killed off, I never thought it made sense to see a sequel.”
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We’re sure whoever owns the rights will consider it anyway –🍸 either as a s🐈equel or a remake, but just not yet…
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