The Director of Jason Statham's CRANK Wants a CRANK Cinematic Universe
Jason Statham's wildly action-packed Crank films were a blast to watch. They are some of the most adrenaline-fueled films that have ever been made and director Brian Taylor wants to expand the franchise and build a cinematic universe around it! And you know what? I would actually like to see how that would turn out. This could be absolutely insane!
This information came out of a conversation with Movie Crypt Podcast while talking about the possibility of seeing Crank 3 and some of the concepts he's planning for it. After joking that "prospects for Crank 3 would be much improved if the second movie had made more than $12 at the box office," he said:
"My feeling about Crank 3 is that Crank 3 should be as exponentially more f—ed up than Crank 2 as Crank 2 was Crank 1. Obviously, there’s been talk here and there but I’ve never really felt that creatively it was f—ed up enough to really do. Because the studio will get in contact with us: ‘What do you guys think about this?’ ‘What do you guys think about that?’ And the scenarios are always very tame compared to what I think it should be."
He then went on to talk about the idea of building a cinematic universe, saying:
"Obviously, there’s a great movie there somewhere. I don’t know if it’s going to be Jason Statham in a wheelchair, 40 years from now. I think there should be a Crank cinematic universe. Not just one movie. So who knows? There’s nothing in the works right now. But you never know. Me and [co-director] Mark [Neveldine] are brothers for life."
I'm curious to know what kind of ideas they have for a Crank Cinematic Universe and what that might look like. But in the end, I would settle for Crank 3 for now. Ya gotta take those baby steps. Back in 2015, co-director Mark Neveldine said that everyone wanted to do a third, saying:
"We’re definitely gonna do solo films. But we have an approved treatment for Crank 3 and we’re super-excited about it. I know we’ve talked about it in the past, but we had lunch with Jason [Statham], we had lunch with Lakeshore. Everybody wants to do it, it’s just now about all the stars aligning. Brian and I have a couple things that we’d really like to do as a team, and there are projects that really make sense that way. But also everybody thinks we’re just one person. We’re actually two guys with families and kids now, and we have things that we want to do solo and we’re very supportive of each other doing that. But we want to do Crank 3."
Would any of you want to see a Crank Cinematic Universe happen?
Via: JoBlo