{"id":7781,"date":"2010-04-08T09:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7781"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:37:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:37:44","slug":"atkinson-back-for-johnny-english-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/08\/atkinson-back-for-johnny-english-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Atkinson Back For JOHNNY ENGLISH 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/JohnnyEnglish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7784\" title=\"JohnnyEnglish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/JohnnyEnglish-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/JohnnyEnglish-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/JohnnyEnglish.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well, here is this week&#8217;s most unexpected news. Universal Studios has announced that they are fast tracking a sequel to the 2003 Rowan Atkinson spy-spoof <strong>Johnny English<\/strong>. A script is already in place and the studio hopes that cameras will begin rolling, under the direction of <strong>St. Trinian<\/strong>&#8216;s helmer Oliver Parker, in August.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that the original film only made $28 million at the domestic box office against its $40 million budget, <strong>Johnny English<\/strong> seems like an unlikely film to get a sequel. But outside the States, where English comic Atkinson has a much higher profile, the adventures of a bumbling civil service who gets mistaken for a spy pulled in $161 million at the box office.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Rowan Atkinson has never been able to make a big impression in the US. His best known character is the mute Mr. Bean, who appeared in a long running BBC series which became a popular programming choice on PBS stations around the country. Atkinson spun the character off for two films which grossed a combined $481 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, if this does well, Atkinson may be amenable to revisiting some of his other past successful characters like my personal favorite, Edmund Blackadder.<\/p>\n<p>Via <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Well, here is this week&#8217;s most unexpected news. Universal Studios has announced that they are fast tracking a sequel to the 2003 Rowan Atkinson spy-spoof Johnny English. A script is already in place and the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/08\/atkinson-back-for-johnny-english-2\/\" title=\"Atkinson Back For JOHNNY ENGLISH 2\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2660,2659,24],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-johnny-english-2","9":"tag-rowan-atkinson","10":"tag-sequel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}