Posted on 11/18/2013 3:06:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Star Partners and Hummingbird Prods. are collaborating on production of a sequel to Frank Capra’s iconic 1946 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which starred Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.
The sequel, titled “It’s A Wonderful Life: The Rest of the Story,” is being financed by Allen J. Schwalb of Star Partners who will also produce along with Bob Farnsworth of Hummingbird. The duo are aiming to get the movie into theaters for the 2015 holiday season.
Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey’s daughter “Zuzu” in the original, will return for the “Wonderful Life” sequel as an angel who shows Bailey’s unlikeable grandson (also named George Bailey) how much better off the world would have been had he never been born.
Grimes, of course, bellowed the iconic line, “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings!” in the original movie, about a troubled family man (Stewart) whose near-suicide on Christmas Eve brings on the intervention of his guardian angel.
Farnsworth and Martha Bolton have written the screenplay.
“The storyline of the new film retains the spirit of the original – every life is important as long as you have friends,” Farnsworth said.
No casting decision for the lead role of Bailey’s grandson will be made until February but producers have also begun discussions with original cast members Jimmy Hawkins, who portrayed Tommy Bailey, and Carol Coombs,who played Janie Bailey, to reprise their roles as well.
The producers are interviewing potential directors and plan to shoot the majority of the film in Louisiana. The sequel will have a budget in the $25 million to $35 million range./p>
“The new film will retain the feeling of the original, and it simply must be shared,” Grimes said. “I’ve probably read close to 20 scripts over the years suggesting a sequel to ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ but none of them were any good. The script by Bob Farnsworth and Martha Bolton was wonderful, and I wanted to be involved with his version of the film immediately.”
Star Partners is the managing member of the slate portfolio Star Partners 8 LLC, a $100 million offering. Previously Star Partners funded seven slates of films, dating back to the 1980s including “The Right Stuff,” “The Killing Fields,” “The Color Purple,” “The Mission,” “Moonstruck,” and “Rain Man.”
“It’s a Wonderful Life” was nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture but lost out to “The Best Years of Our Lives.”
I read the article. Remake was right word. Sequel is a little different and most flop. George’s descendant named George wonders what the world would be like if he were never born. Dang that’s new!
Sorry but Hollywood has little to no creative writers left just rehashers. The democrats called the destruction of American Healthcare the Affordable Care Act. So call it a sequel if you like and go see it. I really don’t care
LOL
What happened to Ernest T Bass?
I’m pretty sure the “angel” from the first one was gay too.
I bet George Bailey went to prison for not declaring all that money as income.
Meanwhile, George has developed a social conscience. He and his wife Mary join civic-minded groups such as the National Council of Soviet-American Friendship and lead demonstrations supporting good and decent causes such as banning the atom bomb, repealing the Taft-Hartley Law, and freeing accused Soviet spy Alger Hiss as well as the 12 Communist leaders on trial before Judge Harold Medina in Nw York City for violating the Smith Act.
At Potter's insistence, the Committee soon focuses its attention on the Baileys. The film will build to a climax as the Baileys face being falsely branded by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as Communists and sent away to Federal prison.
Ernest T is a bath salt junkie.
Ilse and Victor Lazlo get to the US safely but then Ilse dumps Victor after she discovers he's having an affair with Eleanor Roosevelt, and flies down to Rio, where she encounters Rick again (recently arrived from Brazzaville, hot on the trail of Nazi bigwigs who have escaped from Europe). She resumes her affair with Rick, not realizing Rick is also seeing Bette Davis, who is also mixed up with Cary Grant...then Cary meets Ilse and it gets even more complicated. Finally Ilse runs into Sidney Greenstreet and they run off to Uruguay together, where he runs a tavern in a small town and she becomes the president of the local ladies' garden club.
So sad. Did he quit throwing rocks?
Hey, I actually like the outline. A story like this might actually work for 2013.
Now all we need is to find the right actors to play the characters. :)
RE: At Potter’s insistence, the Committee soon focuses its attention on the Baileys. The film will build to a climax as the Baileys face being falsely branded by the House Committee on Un-American Activities as Communists and sent away to Federal prison.
And where does the Angel Clarence come into the picture?
Because he won his wings in the first film, Clarence isn't supposed to be a part of this story, but a closet conservative on the screenwriting team slips him in.
Although he now has his wings, Clarence still believes in George Bailey and is determined to set him straight. So he flies to earth and takes the Baileys on a tour of the East Bloc, showing them the Iron Curtain, the Gulags, the slums of Moscow, the bread lines, etc. to show him what the Communist paradise that the Baileys have come to admire is really like. Then he takes them into the future, to 2013, to show them an America that is slipping into Communism before bringing them back to 1949.
Angry at being deceived, George Bailey marches into the hearing room and to Potter's surprise, rats out all of his Communist front allies. In the process, he exposes a major Soviet espionage operation.
Meanwhile, Lewis Fulton IV, a crusading investigative reporter, has learned that Rep. Potter is actually on the payroll of the GRU, the Soviet Main Intelligence Administration, and that his anti-Communist stance is all a ruse to get access to classified documents. The movie ends happily as Potter goes to Federal prison and the Baileys become heroes for bringing down a Red spy ring.
Posts #26 & #32....BRILLIANT!
(You put entirely too much thought into this, haven’t you?) :)
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