"Chronicle 2 is still probably happening, just not with my involvement as of now. It’s a bummer, but there are no real hard feelings,” he stated. “They hired new writers on it. I’m sure they’ll announce soon. Just hope this answers the questions I’ve been getting everyday."
I am willing to bet that Fox wants to try and turn 'Chronicle' into the next big blockbuster super hero franchise, that can not happen with the very dark story-line that Landis wanted to tell..
Yesterday Max Landis took to his Twitter account again and revealed what he had planned for 'Chronicle 2':
In retrospect, I’m not even sure if fans of the first film would’ve been ready or eager for my second installment as originally written.
Gone was the aspirational “what would you do,” gone were the pranks and bromance, gone were lovely tragic Andrew and hopeful, bright Steve.
In their place was a dark, frustratingly unblinking stare into a complicated world that posed the question is it worth it to be a hero...
...Told from the point of view of a heartbroken and insane woman who would martyr herself to the cause of being the world’s first villain.
It was, in my estimation, a sequel that elaborated on the ideas and situations from the first to create a different genre of movie.
In the best of worlds, in my optimistic but wildly prejudiced eyes, this could make it an Aliens, a Terminator 2…in the worst a Grease 2.
So at the end of the day, maybe it’s better that Martyr never saw the light of day. Sad I didn’t get to do some of my other versions.
The multi-movie low budge Chronicle-based found footage superhero universe culminating in an Avengers type team up was a real good one.
The most frustrating thing is that I don’t know if I’ll get the opportunity to explain what MOGO was or what he was doing in that cave.
Martyr also had two pretty cool robot suits in it. Sorta hyper realistic iron man stuff. Magnetic flight, sonic weaponry. Cool, cool stuff.
