Alexander Payne is getting critical about making an Election sequel which might discover the profession of Reese Witherspoon’s Tracy Flick.
Alexander Payne’s Election is a film whose popularity appears to be rising increasingly more annually. With a brand new Criterion Assortment version in shops (and the movie celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary), Payne and the movie’s author, Jim Taylor have just lately been exploring a possible sequel. The unique movie was primarily based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, and the sequel can be primarily based on his most up-to-date novel, Tracy Flick Can’t Win.
Based on a current interview in Deadline, Payne is severely contemplating teaming with Payne to adapt the sequel, saying, “There may be speak and Jim Taylor and I are conceding that now,” with him including, “If there have been to be a sequel to Election, what would that appear to be?”
The unique movie starred Matthew Broderick as a highschool Social Research trainer who turns into hellbent on destroying her marketing campaign for pupil physique president at her highschool. Whereas the movie’s ending prompt Flick would pursue a political profession, Perrotta’s follow-up novel took a a lot completely different strategy. In it, Flick is a legislation college drop-out who turns into vice principal of her old skool, and she or he turns into hellbent on turning into principal when the place opens up.
In earlier interviews, Payne mentioned he would take a free strategy to adapting the novel. He’s desirous to drop the highschool setting and discover a strategy to deliver Broderick’s character again into the fold. Reese Witherspoon is already on board to reprise her position. She can be producing the potential movie by her Hi there Sunshine label with Paramount Plus.
Whereas Payne appears open to the concept, he additionally revealed in his Deadline interview that he’d love to do a western together with his The Holdovers author David Hemingson, saying, “It might be good to take a type of realistic-slash-naturalistic strategy to a Western and likewise utilizing panorama. In as a lot as sense of place is vital…a part of my curiosity is having even higher dramatic, archetypical interaction between character and panorama. I believe it’s actually fascinating. Additionally, I’d love to do a very good automotive chase movie.”
A automotive chase movie directed by Alexander Payne? Signal me up!
