Making a sequel to the beloved 1980 film The Blues Brothers after costar John Belushi’s loss of life was already going to be a tough problem. Director John Landis says film executives made it inconceivable by interfering with the script for 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000.
“I used to be very pissed off by what Common did to me on Blues Brothers 2000 and that was my first expertise with the brand new company Hollywood,” the Animal Home, Buying and selling Locations and Coming to America director advised IFC in 2011. “The whole lot is by committee now, and so they destroyed that film, although the music remains to be good. This occurs to filmmakers on a regular basis, the place producers and studios fuck with their image, and whenever you’re selling the film you possibly can’t say that.”
In 2004 Landis advised the AV Membership that he, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had deliberate to make a Blues Brothers sequel, however Belushi’s 1982 loss of life scuttled that concept. Aykroyd ultimately rekindled the band with Jim Belushi and John Goodman alternately filling in for John, and within the late ’90s Aykroyd and Landis determined the time was proper for a sequel.
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“We wrote what I assumed was a terrific script,” Landis recalled. “Then Common Studios eviscerated it. That was a wierd expertise, as a result of the very first thing they stated was that it needed to be PG, which meant they could not use profanity, which is mainly slicing the Blues Brothers’ nuts off. The primary film is an R-rated movie, however there is no nudity or violence in it. It is simply the language. Then they stated, ‘You need to have a baby, you need to have…’ The underside line was, the one method that film was going to get made was to agree with all the things they stated.”
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After a really touching opening scene that finds Ayrkoyd’s Elwood Blues ready in useless for Belushi’s Jake Blues to choose him up from jail, Blues Brothers 2000 rapidly devolves right into a disjointed mess stuffed with cliched characters and toothless retreads of the comedic set items from the unique film. The film was largely panned upon launch, and rapidly vanished from film theaters.
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Landis says Aykroyd was prepared to endure the studio interference for a really noble cause: He needed to make use of the film to file blues and soul legends resembling Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, B.B King in motion for posterity. “That is the one time I by no means actually fought with the studio, as a result of they did not actually need to make [the movie],” Landis defined. “So we did each single factor they stated. By the point we would finished that, the script was sort of homogenized and uninteresting. Danny stated, ‘It is in regards to the music. It is simply in regards to the music, John, so don’t be concerned about it. We’ll get the very best individuals, and we’ll make an incredible album, and get these individuals on movie. Now we have to doc these individuals.'”
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