{"id":11422,"date":"2011-01-18T07:12:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11422"},"modified":"2021-02-05T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T21:53:00","slug":"summit-orders-red-sequel-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/18\/summit-orders-red-sequel-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Orders RED Sequel Script"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last fall’s action comedy Red didn’t set the critical world on fire (a respectable 70% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>) but it seems to have done well enough at the box office to encourage Summit Entertainment to take the first step in developing a sequel. Collider<\/a> is reporting that the studio has hired the film’s screenwriters Jon and Erich Hoeber to begin developing a follow up script.<\/p>\n

Outside of the Twilight<\/strong> franchise, Red<\/strong> has been Summit’s biggest hit so it is perhaps not that surprising that the upstart studio is looking at capitalizing on it. The film has pulled in almost $165 million at the box office<\/a> worldwide. Not bad for a project that cost $58 million.<\/p>\n

Although based on a comic book miniseries by Warren Ellis and Cully Hammmer, the Hoeber’s script for the first film deviated wildly from its source material in terms of its story of retired black-ops agents who find themselves targeted for elimination by their former employer due to the sparsity of the original comic’s story. Given that the Hoebers have managed to craft a screenplay based on the board game “Battleship” that was able to get a studio greenlight, I have little reservation that they’ll have too much trouble finding a way to expand the world they’ve created in Red<\/strong> for a second go-round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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