Steve Pink To Helm ‘Bad Santa’ Sequel
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Pink is in early talks to rewrite and direct Bad Santa 2, the sequel of the raucous 2003 comedy that is in the works from Dimension Films. Johnny Rosenthal wrote the previous draft of the script. Billy Bob Thornton is expected to reprise the title role in the sequel. Pink, who last helmed the feature Hot Tub Time Machine and before that Accepted, has been busy helming episodes of such TV series as New Girl, The Office and Happy Endings. He’s repped by UTA and Mosaic.
Yeah cause HOT TUB TIME MACHINE was so good … NOT. That was a stinker.
cool ‘NOT’ joke!
“Bad santa” great comedy. Terry Zwigoff, Cohen bros., Glen Facara and John Regua – let’s i’m talking about. Sequel is bad idea.
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.
Steve is an amazing guy.
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.
did you ever stop to think maybe John and Glen weren’t available, what with them directing studio films and all?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.