They are working on a sequel to Chronicle, and I don’t know if it is really a good idea.
After Dave raved about Chronicle I went and saw it and really liked it. Cool idea, with a twist on the dumb found footage genre. I thought overall it was a really cool story.
I read early tonight that Fox is looking into making a sequel, and I think it’s kind of a dumb idea. Two of the three kids are dead, including the guy who was obsessed with recording everything. So what are they supposed to do now? Have the last kid run around as a superhero like every other dumb comic book movie? I thought the story was of the kids developing their powers and how each took it based on their personality. I think the whole having powers thing was secondary to the development of the characters.
Maybe they will dig up the thingie that gave them their powers and let another group of teenagers wreck house, but wouldn’t that just be a remake of the first one? What was that thing, anyway? Some kind of alien device? Are aliens really sending down glowing crystals that give humans super powers? What if that thing was actually a huge pile of alien toxic waste and when the kids got their powers they also all got brain cancer? That would make for a sort of interesting sequel, I guess.
This image, by the way, is the poster Moulder had in his office on the X-Files. I got it from Dave’s tv show t-shirts, although I think he is sold out on it. Cool shirt IMO.
Jason
