Legacyquels are all the craze in Hollywood today, and that implies that producer Jerry Bruckheimer holds plenty of playable playing cards. In the previous few years, he has been a participant within the returns of the High Gun, Unhealthy Boys and Beverly Hills Cop franchises, and he has plans for extra. What does he have cooking? One particular title he’s trying to revisit is the naval drama of Crimson Tide.
That includes the above-the-title star energy of Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman, Crimson Tide was an enormous hit with each critics and audiences when it was launched in 1995, and Bruckheimer is making strikes to develop a 30-years-later sequel. He made point out of the venture throughout a latest visitor spot on The Wealthy Eisen Present, saying that expertise is already connected:
We’ve got a extremely good director and author speaking to the Navy proper now about what’s happening beneath the water.
Jerry Bruckheimer did not drop any names concerning the filmmakers connected, however apparently they’re so deeply concerned that they’re already doing analysis journeys in order that they’ll have a greater understanding of the setting by which they will be working.
However what about star energy? Gene Hackman sadly handed away earlier this yr, however Jerry Bruckheimer says that there’s a purpose to deliver again Denzel Washington – suggesting that the story being developed will both contain or be instantly about Lieutenant Commander Ronald “Ron” Hunter. Stated the producer,
We’ve got Denzel. . . . If we give him a very good script, I believe he’d do it.
Directed by Tony Scott, the unique Crimson Tide is about aboard a U.S. nuclear missile submarine and finds two officers in excessive stakes battle concerning an order to launch their vessel’s payload. Whereas the film got here out three a long time in the past, nuclear submarines are nonetheless very a lot a factor, so there clearly is a world to revisit, and buying and selling the environment of post-Chilly Struggle to our trendy battle has plenty of potential.
It seems like this venture is not precisely going to be prepared to enter manufacturing subsequent month, however it’s noteworthy regardless that Denzel Washington has an fascinating slate of upcoming initiatives. His latest film, Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, is arriving in theaters on August 22, however he’s additionally connected to the Netflix heist film Right here Comes The Flood with Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones, and he has brazenly mentioned a possible position in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther 3. And let’s not neglect that he is lately been engaged on Broadway starring reverse Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello.
As famous, Jerry Bruckheimer has been very profitable in the previous few years creating sequels to his hits from the Nineties, so do not be shocked if we quickly begin listening to much more about Crimson Tide 2.