I loves me some Bruce Campbell – don’t we all? – and I appreciated what he was going for with MY NAME IS BRUCE, but I’d be lying if I said I thought it was a good flick. I know, it’s not supposed to be Oscar-worthy, but I wasn’t looking for that from it. I was looking for a little more… substance, I guess? It went through the motions when it should have really went for the jugular.
That was my take on it, anyway. That doesn’t mean I’m not completely down for another go-round with Bruce-as-Bruce, and from the sounds of it, the sequel will be everything I had hoped for and more. In an interview with the L.A. Times, Campbell talks a bit about BRUCE VS. FRANKENSTEIN, and says something that just made my heart sing: It’s going to be a “horror movie EXPENDABLES”. Yes please!
From the interview: “Yeah, “The Expendables,” or more like the “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” of horror. I want to get so many horror movie stars that people can’t possibly not see the movie. I want to give them other stuff to do. I want to have Kane Hodder be very particular about what he eats. I want Robert Englund to be a tough guy, like he knows tae kwon do or something. I want to find out the hidden sides of all these people. Some will play themselves, some will play alternate characters as well. I may approach Kane Hodder to play Frankenstein. He could be Kane Hodder himself fighting himself as Frankenstein. It could be crazy. It’s a silly concocted story that we hope to do maybe in a year or so.”
Like I said before… Yes please! Would love to see Bruce alongside horror icons like Hodder, Englund and others (Tony Todd? Doug Bradley?) together doin’ some wacky shit. How about you?
To read the full interview with Campbell, head on over HERE.
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