Palate cleanser! Some brief respite from the Comic-Con onslaught we’re all currently being bombarded with (hey, we don’t necessarily love it either).
Although, wait, it comes from Comic-Con, yay! During the “Battle: Los Angeles” panel at nerdfest 2010, star Aaron Eckhart, admitted that he and Neil LaBute have indeed discussed a sequel to the film that made LaBute’s name in cinema; it’s an ugly, vile and misogynistic picture (also a twisted black comedy) about two completely different business executives who set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
“We talked about making a Broadway show or doing a sequel to it,” Eckhart admitted when Film School Rejects brought up the idea to the actor. “We’ve talked about doing it every ten years [about] where [Eckhart’s character Chad] is every ten years.”
Eckhart also quipped that he thought the character would be in “rehab” 10 years down the line. Now we doubt this would ever actually happen, but could you imagine? While already a caustic playwright for years, “In the Company of Men” was LaBute’s debut feature film and still his strongest work.
In recent years, he’s gone off the rails hard having directed very un-LaBute-like pictures, including “The Wicker Man,” “Lakeview Terrace” and the remake of “Death at a Funeral” with Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence (identity crisis much?). We can’t even imagine how he would tackle it at this stage in his professional life, and we doubt going back to that would revive his career (or at least make us rethink this horrible joke he’s putting on or whatever it is).
Ok, not gonna happen, but dare to dream. Uhh, sort of. As you were…