Lou Diamond Phillips would nonetheless like to do Younger Weapons 3, however reveals who’s stopping the sequel from getting made.
It’s been thirty-four years because the final Younger Weapons film was launched, and though the forged appears recreation to return for Younger Weapons 3, it hasn’t occurred. Whereas talking on the Within You podcast hosted by Michael Rosenbaum, Lou Diamond Phillips dropped a number of particulars in regards to the long-awaited sequel and who’s holding it up.
When requested if he would think about doing Younger Weapons 3, Phillips mentioned, “Not only would I consider it, I said yes to it.” The actor defined that Emilio Estevez had written a “great script” in the previous couple of years and had bumped the timeline ahead “to place us on the age we are actually.“
“Without giving too much away, those of us whose deaths were off-camera get to come back,” Phillips teased, including that authentic author John Fusco was onboard and Estevez was additionally going to direct it. The venture really bought additional forward than you may suppose, with Estevez having completed a lot of location scouting and placing collectively loads of storyboards. So, what occurred? Phillips mentioned that Morgan Creek has “put the kibosh on it in the meanwhile.“
Phillips continued, “For some reason, Morgan Creek would like to control the property, but as far as I know, they’re not doing anything with it, so it just seems really counterproductive to me.” Morgan Creek had introduced a reboot of Younger Weapons in 2017, however as Phillips mentioned, they haven’t completed a heck of loads with it. I’d say let the unique forged return for Younger Weapons 3 earlier than it will get too late.
Estevez spoke in regards to the potential sequel final 12 months. “It all comes down to the legal minds that work out IP. Listen, I’m ready to go. We have a terrific draft and if we can figure out the copyrights on all of this, and if Morgan Creek can sort of untangle from some of the issues that they’ve got in terms of continuing the franchise, we’re ready to go,” Estevez mentioned. “So it’s only a query of when. In fact, I’m not getting any youthful, so I feel we’ll drop the ‘young’ from the title, which we’ve completed. However I feel that Westerns being revived actually performs to our profit.“
The primary Younger Weapons film follows a bunch of younger gunmen, led by Billy the Child, who grow to be deputies to avenge the homicide of the rancher who turned their benefactor. Emilio Estevez performed Billy the Child, with Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez, Kiefer Sutherland as Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock, Charlie Sheen as Richard “Dick” Brewer, Dermot Mulroney as “Dirty” Steve Stephens, and Casey Siemaszko as Charlie Bowdre.
