Steve Pink To Helm ‘Bad Santa’ Sequel

COMMENTS (14)

• Yeah cause HOT TUB TIME MACHINE was so good … NOT. That was a stinker.

  Comment by Hot tub — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 5:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • cool ‘NOT’ joke!

    Comment by nobody — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 5:44pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Bad santa” great comedy. Terry Zwigoff, Cohen bros., Glen Facara and John Regua – let’s i’m talking about. Sequel is bad idea.

  Comment by yu-ma01 — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 7:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It will be great to see Billy Bob in a movie again. I did not know he was still acting. I thought he just worked on his music. What ever happened to that movie he directed Jane Mansfield’s Car? Anyone know if all the bad reviews prevented it from getting distribution. I can’t find any info on it. I heard it wasn’t as bad as the critics said.

  Comment by sd — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 8:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Steve is an amazing guy.

  Comment by jer — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 9:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I hate this – why in hell doesn’t Dimension Films hire the people who wrote the original (Glenn Ficarra & John Requa) to write the sequel?… They’d have a great lock on the characters (whom they created in the first place) and no doubt – they’d be overflowing with ideas for a second Bad Santa! But no, the morons at Dimension hire new guys without a single script yet produced between them.

  This is a insult to the original writers. And a prime recipe for disaster. What does Hollywood have against writers who create superior scripts along with their memorable characters? Why are practially ALWAYS discarded for the sequels? It reeks of bone-headed decision-making… by cheap producers.

  Comment by Ron Brooks — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 10:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • did you ever stop to think maybe John and Glen weren’t available, what with them directing studio films and all?

    Comment by maybe — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 10:23am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Well, Steve Pink is one of the best writers in hollywood. Gross Point Blank/High Fidelity… that’s why.
    And very few people want anything to do with sequels – Requa and Ficarra have so moved on from this terrible idea of a sequel.

    Comment by Josh — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 2:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What about Johnny Rosenthal’s IRON JACK? Make that. Last comedic script that actually made me laugh, and now I’m laughing just thinking about the last time I read it…it’s aces!

  Comment by don — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 10:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Weirdly tone in that script that was constantly pointing out how the 30′s are different than today. Also wasn’t very good in terms of the adventure. Boring script, good idea.

    Comment by lo — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 11:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Good choice, Steve Pink is talented, Hot tub time machine was actually funny if you have at least little bit of sense of humor. There are very few really good comedy directors out there, and he is one of them.

  Comment by pete — Monday July 30, 2012 @ 10:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Loved the first Bad Santa. A sequel is not needed by any means. Leave good alone dammit. All these f’n sequels, remakes, and reboots are scraping the bottom of the creativity barrel. Development execs are definitely acting like scared pusses with the projects they want to get behind.

  Since they are so scared to take a chance on anything but sequels and remakes then how about a remake of Supergirl b/c the first one was disappointing.

  Comment by do better — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 10:24am PDT  Reply to this post

• No idea why Pink is doing this. I had such high hopes for that guy. He needs to do a cool indie. At best, this is a direct to video. Billy Bob had no audience and no one will go see this in the theater.

  I hope it’s just a writing thing for Pink.

  He’s a talented guy. Who’s agenting this guy?

  Comment by Markham — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 2:50pm PDT  Reply to this post

• A word or two of advice: if you can’t get Lauren Graham for it, or if you don’t write her a bigger role in it than she had in the first movie, don’t make it.

  Comment by Rob J. — Tuesday July 31, 2012 @ 3:26pm PDT  Reply to this post