Our man on the scene JimmyO has himself a nice little chat with THE HILLS RUN RED director Dave Parker and grilled the man about any potential sequel ideas he might have. Though the flick hasn’t even been released yet, it seems ripe with franchise possibilities… I’ll just let Mr. Parker take it from here. (WARNING: Minor spoilers follow.)
As far as a sequel goes – my feeling on those is that if they are done then they should be ideally done not to just make money – the reason most sequels are made, but because the fans truly want one. I guess that is determined by sales of the first movie most of the time – another catch in it of course.
As far as doing a Hills Run Red sequel/prequel/whatever – we never really thought that far ahead – to me I want to just try and make the best movie possible and I think it’s near impossible to create a franchise – that again is really determined by the fans – if they want it, then it will happen.
Our ending is open ended, but really it was more in the spirit of endings like Carpenter’s The Thing – leaving the audience to fill in where the story could go from there. What is cool is that with the way things end with the movie, you could go in many directions with another one. I know if one happened that I would love to work with everyone again and that we would try to come up with something that surprises the audience and tries to take the concept of a sequel and veer from what would be expected. Of course Babyface in some incarnation would be in it – but how, that would be the fun part.
Keep an eye out for the whole interview from our beloved JimmyO, which will hit the site soon! THE HILLS RUN RED (starring the luscious Sophie Monk, pictured below) hits DVD on SEPTEMBER 29).