Seems like Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano isn’t the only thing blowing hot air and smoke up our ass these days…
MTV recently sat down with Robert De Niro to discuss a variety of things, one of them being the long-in-the-works sequel to Martin Brest’s 1988 buddy comedy “Midnight Run.” But if Brest, who hasn’t been behind the camera since the fiasco that was “Gigli,” was hoping to get some work here he might not want to wait by the phone. De Niro says, “Yes, we’re gonna do, hopefully, a sequel. The script is pretty good. I don’t think [Martin Brest] would direct it — we’re figuring that out now.”
The plan for the film is to set De Niro’s Jack Walsh bounty hunter up with a younger convict who may or may not be the son of Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin) from the first film. Grodin, who hasn’t appeared in a Hollywood film since the 2006 comedy “The Ex” might have a role or a cameo in the film as well, but it just seems to be speculation at this point.
Is it just us or has De Niro gone off the deep end recently with nostalgia? Between this and keeping hope alive for a “Taxi Driver” sequel it just seems the man is looking for sure-fire box-office, or perhaps its calculated press for his Tribeca Film Festival (which, by the way, starts tonight). Either way we hope the man would be looking to envelope more challenging characters and not just revisiting old ones.
