Making a sequel to the beloved 1980 film The Blues Brothers after costar John Belushi’s dying was already going to be a troublesome 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 instructed IFC in 2011. “All the pieces is by committee now, and so they destroyed that film, although the music continues 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 may’t say that.”
In 2004 Landis instructed the AV Membership that he, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had deliberate to make a Blues Brothers sequel, however Belushi’s 1982 dying 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 an odd expertise, as a result of the very first thing they mentioned was that it needed to be PG, which meant they could not use profanity, which is mainly reducing 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 mentioned, ‘It’s a must to have a toddler, you must have…’ The underside line was, the one approach that film was going to get made was to agree with all the things they mentioned.”
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After a very touching opening scene that finds Ayrkoyd’s Elwood Blues ready in useless for Belushi’s Jake Blues to select him up from jail, Blues Brothers 2000 shortly devolves right into a disjointed mess filled with cliched characters and toothless retreads of the comedic set items from the unique film. The film was largely panned upon launch, and shortly vanished from film theaters.
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Landis says Aykroyd was keen to endure the studio interference for a really noble motive: He wished to make use of the film to report blues and soul legends akin to 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 wish to make [the movie],” Landis defined. “So we did each single factor they mentioned. By the point we might completed that, the script was sort of homogenized and uninteresting. Danny mentioned, ‘It is in regards to the music. It is simply in regards to the music, John, so don’t fret about it. We’ll get one of the best individuals, and we’ll make a terrific album, and get these individuals on movie. We’ve got to doc these individuals.'”
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