According to Wikipedia Knightriders 2 is being filmed.
"Simply titled "Knightriders 2", the new film is a co-production between Taurus and Bandit Cinema and said to be budgeted within the $1-3 million range."
I can't find any information on IMDB
Well, take anything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt; any idiot can post made-up stuff there. Interesting idea, though -- if Romero and Savini were involved. Have to wait and see, I guess.
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Uh oh -- I just looked up Taurus Entertainment, and apparently they've done nothing but crap, including a ripoff "sequel" to Romero's "Day of the Dead", with no involvement by George Romero nor, apparently, any respect for his work. Well, that sucks.
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I have to agree with you there Taurus, uses an old idea and piggy backs on the success of the past hit, it will be intersting to find out more about there idea's.
As for Knightriders 2, I'm in contact with the Knightriders Motorcycle club
http://www.knightridersmc.com/Motorcycle%20Jousting.html
and they heard about the remake about 7 months ago. I feel the remake could be close!!!!
As the kids say, LOL. (Sometimes I see "LOLOL". What the Hell is that supposed to be? "Laughing out loud out loud"?)
I'll have to give the website a good looking over when I get home. I wonder if they have any SCA members in there.
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It's an exaggeration of the morons that say "lol".
shareI am a member of the SCA and have not heard to date of anything done with this but would love to be part of it or atleast see it come to reality. Alot of good movies never get remade or a 2nd part.
shareTaurus is a horrible company that has been making cheap knock offs of Romeros work. Knightriders 2 will be horrible like every other movie they have made. I wish these people would realize how sh*tty their movies are and stop bastardizing Romero's work.
shareIt's too bad; because you really could make a good sequel, if you wanted to. I'm sure Tom Savini would love to do it.
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Interesting. I emailed Tom a year or so ago asking him what the chances were of finding out where the Knightriders were after all these years. He didn't think it would ever happen.
Wiki is useless.
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On the commentary track for Knightriders, Tom Savini sounds so whistful and nostalgic about the summer they spent filming it; I bet he'd love to do a sequel. If I were ever rich enough, I'd love to bankroll movies like that. So many good indie scripts never get filmed, or the project fails, because time is money and they run out of both.
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Yeah, he seems amazed at how well the film has held up. It does. This is a timeless story at it's core.
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Well, besides just being entertaining, it has really strong themes, like the conflict between artistic freedom (staying true to your vision) and compromising to make a buck. I also like stories where people who don't really fit in anywhere else come together and form a sort of family.
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The doodlesons....
shareA $1-3 Million Taurus Entertainment film = $10,000 spent on actors, stunt performers, effects, sets, equipment, etc. and $2,990,000 snorted up James Glenn Dudelson's nose.
Day of the Dead: Contagium was bad enough, but at least they just stuck that title on an unrelated film, they didn't try and make a real sequel. With Creepshow 3 they were actually trying to continue the series, but with a total lack of understanding (or caring) about what actually made the original so great. Now Knightriders 2 - the original Knightriders is an intelligent, metaphysical, highbrow movie; the guys behind a two-bit exploitation film company like Taurus cannot possibly understand the greatness of this film, never mind make a fitting sequel. My advice Dundelson, if you want Knightriders 2, offer the money to Romero to write it, and save money by hiring Savini to direct.
Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger both did cameos in the "Dawn of the Dead" remake; I'd love to see them doing their Knightriders characters, 30 years later.
As it happens, I joined the SCA about the time Knightriders came out, and I'm still in there, fighting guys and gals young enough to be my children. (Of course, we don't fall off motorcycles, which can be a bit damaging.)
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