I watched this last night and at the end of the credits, there is a announcement for the sequel called Buckaroo banzai and the justice something, I can't remember.
Yet it did not happen did it?
Were the producers overly confident that this would be a hit? Cos it was a flop at the bos office wasn't it?
"Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League" was the title, and the reason it was never made was indeed due to this movie bombing at the box-office. They also edited out the leadin to that movie, featuring a villian who, in the sequel, was to lead the World Crime League.
sharebuckaroo Banzai Vs. the World Crime league... the basic plot concepts were borrowed, adapted... and the result was made by john Carpenter... you know the result as Big trouble in Little China.
shareThat's just a popular urban legend, because W.D. Richter was involved in both movies, but even he himself denied such claims. On the contrary, the first drafts for "Big Trouble" had the story set in a wild-west-scenario, I believe.
I feel indifferent about there never being a sequel, I gotta say. On the one hand, I would've loved another movie in the same vein, on the other hand there's quite some risk that it might've sucked or being not much more than a "more of everything"-version of the original, as so many sequels sadly are.
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Check out BUCKAROO BANZAI: RETURN OF THE SCREW, a 3-issue comic book series from Moonstone Books. It's adapted from Earl Mac Rauch's pilot script for the tv series which never happened.
It's bizarre and makes very little sense, just like the film ... which of course means I loved it. The art's pretty bad, though.
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"Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League" was the title, and the reason it was never made was indeed due to this movie bombing at the box-office. They also edited out the leadin to that movie, featuring a villian who, in the sequel, was to lead the World Crime League.
Like other movies that end announcing a sequel they never happen. Drat! At the time I was looking foward to another. I guess all we have to look forward to is the new Buckaroo Banzai book that comes out this Fall. Tim
shareApropos of almost nothing, check out "Free Enterprise." At the end of THEIR hillarious credits it encourages us to stay tuned for "William Shatner vs. the World Crime League," too. A MUST see flick!
shareWes Anderson also payed tribute to this (uber) classic ending in "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou". The movie ends in exactly the same way as "Buckaroo".
share"I watched this last night and at the end of the credits, there is a announcement for the sequel called Buckaroo banzai and the justice something, I can't remember.
Yet it did not happen did it? "
I guess this is one of the film's in-jokes. As Buckaroo is partly a James Bond-ish character, who does brain surgery, martial arts, and drag racing, and seems to know everything. Much like the Bond films, his next adventure is teased, but it didn't come to pass for old Buckaroo.
I guess this is one of the film's in-jokes.
No, they actually intended to do a sequel. It didn't happen because the first bombed at the box-office.
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Got another one for you: Remo Williams-The Adventure Begins. It began and ended with that huge smoking hole it left at the box office.
shareOh, it didn't quite end there. In 1988, there was a television pilot...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236677/
Plus, there's the 145+ novel series which continues to this day.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/series/destroyer/
That's far more than any of us Buckaroo fans got.
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of course that could've been a gimmick.
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The sad thing is that based on video sales, they could have gotten the budget to do the sequel. But the production company had went out of business by that point and rights were a mess for a few years.
shareIf I had the sort of expendable income required I'd totally finance "BBVTWCL" and not worry at all about the losses as long I got to go to the opening.
It is actually a much longer story than "it bombed at the box-office". Richter and Rauch actually found funding for a sequel, but the boss of the studio, who owned the rights, for some reason, refused to let them make it. He even nixed a later TV-series proposal. Apparently he felt that he had somehow been screwed over by Richter and Rauch, and held a grudge against them.
The rumour goes that he was afraid that people would have to go through the papers and discover his embezzlement. He was eventually accused of massive fraud and commited suicide in 1995. So, the rights eventually went to a french company, along with massive amounts of the paperwork version of spaghetti code, which they, to this day, haven't fully sorted out. MGM had to cut through massive amounts of red tape to even release it on DVD. They planned a TV-series again in the late nineties, but, again, the rights issue is a mess. They are reasonbly sure that the movie rights sit with the french, but they are not entirely sure if a TV-show is included in those rights. It is not until recently that at least some of the rights have been cleared up, and new material, the comics, have been made.
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I heard that some guy at the studio stole the money because he's a crock. The movie couldn't bomb because no one thought it would be a mega 100 million hit.
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If you want to read the sequel to the film, look on-line for the Moonstone comic trade paperback "Buckaroo Banzai / Return Of The Screw". There is also a detailed history in the back talking about why it was never made and the other failed TV show that didn't get a greenlight.
"Wherever You Go, There You Are." - Buckaroo Banzai
Thanks for clearing this up. I thought that the talk about a sequel was a joke at the end. I was surprsed to see that the ending to Back to the Future was a joke too, and that Robert Zemekis had never considered a sequel to the film. I've just watched this film for the first time today.
shareI assumed the talk of a sequel was a joke also, because it was so deliberative. Joke or not, it's too bad it never happened.
shareMGM now owns the rights to the Banzai franchise after being passed on from now defunct Sherwood Productions and its successors. So any sequel or remake is at their discretion.