We are all for more female friendly fare at the box office. We understand the necessity in Hollywood to try and turn a successful film into a franchise. And boy do we like music. When you put all those things in a blender well…let’s just say you don’t get a smoothie (you get a shit smoothie).
Benny Andersson of ABBA has made it perfectly clear in interviews that he does not intend to license ABBA’s catalog for any further “Mamma Mia”-ing. He gave the idea of a sequel a flat no. Now that’s gotta put a crimp in the plans of Universal Pictures who reportedly have put the idea of “Mamma Mia 2” into development – and seemingly Meryl Streep is on board to return, as is Colin Firth. In fact, Firth confirmed to Collider.com that he’d been approached about “Mamma Mia” part deux.
So they’re possibly, maybe doing this but with no ABBA. So who’d be a prime candidate to license their music to this sort of narrative (er that’s still carrying the title of an ABBA song, AWKWARD!)? Time to speculate! Here’s a list of whose music we’d like to see scoring this potential sequel:
1. Neil Diamond – It’s lame but the film industry has been going through a love affair with Diamond since “Saving Silverman.” He’s certainly got the back catalog and covers enough topics to string some sort of pathetic narrative together.
2. Madonna – Let’s face it, Madonna could use this kind of attention on her back catalog so kids realize she’s more than just the blonde old lady with man arms who likes to show her thighs. You could easily string together a female friendly story from Madonna songs, but the movie might come out just a wee bit raunchier.
3. Elton John – Talk about having a plethora of songs to choose from! If they went with Elton’s songs they could follow it up with about 50 sequels. He covers that much territory.
4. Jay-Z – Eh, we just wanna see Colin Firth’s epic fail at rapping.