Well, what do you know? Here I was thinking I was one of the few people out there who actually had fond memories of Walter Hill's musical flop Streets of Fire, but you can now add Albert Pyun to the list of the film's dedicated fans. Reports have surfaced over at AICN that the B-movie director extraordinaire is planning a sequel of sorts to the 1984 cult classic. According to AICN, the title is The Road to Hell, and will bring back Streets' original star, Michael Paré, to star alongside Clare Kramer (Buffy) and Courtney Peldon (Boston Public).If you haven't seen the original, then you are missing out on some prime '80s cheese. What other decade would feature a rock and roll musical set in an urban fantasy land with Willem Dafoe sporting vinyl overalls in a sledgehammer fight to the death? According to AICN, the film will not be a direct sequel to Hill's original flick, but instead a tribute film that will take "STREETS' mood and energy, infusing 50s styled "hardboiled" dialog and characters possessing "dark" shades of gray."
Now that we finally have confirmation from Pyun on that The Sword and the Sorcerer sequel, I guess we'll just have to wait and see which project Pyun makes first. So even though I'm not all that thrilled about a sequel to one of my youth's guilty pleasures, I can't say no to a plot description like this: "Consider it Moulin Rouge meets torture porn. A heavily torqued romantic fantasy where dreams still live but they carry very big knives. "
I'm sold. How about you?
1. As the years have gone by, I am no longer ashamed to admit that Streets of Fire is still my fav movie. Sigh, I have often daydreamed about making a sequel or even a (surely god awful) stage version.
Did you know that Streets was actually written as the first film in a trilogy of Tom Cody movies? The other scripts were apparently already written, but the movie did so poorly, the others were scrapped.
The movie had a strangely profound effect on me. I dress a lot like Ellen Aim, hang out with shady guys who own muscle cars and motorcycles, and drink a lot of tequila.
There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby, just as long as we're going nowhere fast...
Posted at 9:02PM on Aug 6th 2008 by Neurotic Trollop