SciFI wire recently spoke with
horror icon Lance Henriksen, and during this conversation the classic 1987
horror film NEAR DARK (Written by Eric Red & Kathryn Bigelow) came up. Apparently Henriksen is dying to make a sequel,
and even more surprising he’s already talked to NEAR DARK cast mate Bill Paxton!
Henriksen had this to say:
“It’s one of my favorites, Near
Dark. If they were smart, what they would do is get ahold of [Henriksen’s
co-stars] Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein and me, and do something that starts as
a prequel to Near Dark. They need to have a conversation with us,
because, man, Billy Paxton and I have been talking about this, about what we
would do, if we did a prequel. And really great stuff came up. So it would be
very wise of them to connect with us.”
It’s cool to think that Henriksen
and Paxton are ready to come onboard with this, but there is one little problem
that I can for see. A prequel? The characters were ageless vampires, and the
original was 20 years ago, so unless Henriksen and Paxton know of some fountain
of youth I don’t see a prequel movie happening. To see what else Henriksen had
to say click
here.