(Left) Jeff Nichols attends the Academy’s eighth Annual Governors Awards in The Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, CA, on Saturday, November 12, 2016. (Right) DC Comics character Aquaman. Photo courtesy of DC Comics.
Director Jeff Nichols is having a constructive second proper now. The filmmaker, who has been behind motion pictures together with ‘Mud’, ‘Midnight Special’, ‘Loving’ and ‘Take Shelter’, is driving excessive on good buzz for his newest, ‘The Bikeriders’, which simply launched on the Telluride Film Festival (and you’ll find the trailer for it right here).
While he stepped away from engaged on growing ‘A Quiet Place’ prequel spin-off ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ to deal with the biker drama, that wasn’t his first brush with franchise filmmaking.
The notorious Sony electronic mail hack of 2014 revealed chatter about the truth that Warner Bros. was trying to have Nichols make ‘Aquaman’. Obviously, that by no means got here to cross –– historical past information that James Wan took on the gig, delivered a $1 billion plus consequence and has the sequel, ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ awaiting launch on December twentieth.
And from the sounds of it, Nichols’ concept for the superhero outing most likely wouldn’t have labored out as effectively, as he revealed on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
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Nichols on ‘Aquaman’
Jason Momoa in 2018’s ‘Aquaman.’
Here’s what Nichols instructed podcast host Josh Horowitz about his potential ‘Aquaman’ take:
“I still have scenes from ‘Aquaman’ in my head that would’ve been good. They would’ve been quite different from the film that was made. It wasn’t ever feasible… I liked the older Aquaman, like when he had a harpoon for a hand. He was a fallen king and his son had died. He was in mourning. Obviously from this brief pitch you can see it would’ve sold hundreds of dollars’ worth of tickets! That stuff is fun to noodle on, but we got a lot of those movies now. There are a lot of stories in the world. It’s ok to spend time telling some other ones.”
But that’s removed from the one big-name title he’s thought-about. And in line with him, he might return to it…
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‘Alien Nation’: Past and Present
(L to R) James Caan as Matthew Sykes and Mandy Patinkin as Sam Francisco (“George”) in 1988’s ‘Alien Nation.’
When ‘Aquaman’ didn’t work out, Nichols switched again to small-scale drama with the acclaimed ‘Loving’. And with that film giving him extra consideration, he was approached to work on a remake of 1988 sci-fi film ‘Alien Nation’, which starred James Caan and Mandy Patinkin.
The thriller, which chronicled extraterrestrials residing on Earth and struggling discrimination, noticed a human cop (Caan) assigned a brand new companion, a “Newcomer” as they sort out a conspiracy among the many latter’s individuals.
It spawned a TV spin-off and a few TV motion pictures, so naturally, Fox (after which Disney, as soon as it purchased the corporate) determined to have somebody attempt a remake. That somebody was Nichols, who tried it first as a film than a TV sequence.
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Here’s Nichols on that one:
On the ‘Alien Nation’ entrance, that was a heartbreaker. That’s one of many causes it’s taken me so lengthy to make one other movie. I spent 4 years on that. We had been on the one-yard line. I had it forged, and we had it able to go, however the universe didn’t need me to make that proper then. That was an unique story I crafted and so they needed to place the ‘Alien Nation’ title on it.
But it seems like there’s a completely happy ending coming down the road…
“Fortunately, that script without the title has gone over to Paramount. After the strike lifts, I can get back to work on it. It’s kind of amazing working on something for so long. I built this entire alien species and all these other things, but it also takes place in Arkansas and feels like one of my films. But it might cost a lot of money. It might be the worst experience of my life, but I’d love to make that film.”
Nichols’ ‘The Bikeriders’ heads to theaters on December 1st.
Austin Butler as Benny in twentieth Century Studios’ ‘The Bikeriders’. Photo courtesy of twentieth Century Studios. © 2023 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
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