Sequels & franchise

While we're nearing the end of this, I want to tell you what Apostolof said to us about his planned sequel. I think we're near the end. Maybe not. Let me see. Oh, God, we're not. We're only halfway through. I'm racing through this. Well, maybe we should just... Yeah. Maybe we should just get up and leave. Let's call in lunch.

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yeah um and uh the class reunion is actually god help us a sequel to college girls would have been i hope you guys put it out as a double feature anyway um edward was back writing this is from the interview now in psychotronic uh possible says ed was edward was back writing most of the scripts so the dialogue oh no he's not saying this this is me saying this

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would be submerged by water. That's the end of that. Oh, well, here she is now. Maybe I should now jump ahead to Apostolof talking about the sequel. And when I interviewed him, he brought this up, not me, because I didn't know there was going to be a sequel. But he says, Orgy of the Dead 2, I will not talk about. And then he goes on to now talk about it.

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Tim Lucas

Fistful of Dollars had been inspired by a visit to a Japanese movie, namely Kurosawa's Yojimbo. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was inspired by a visit to a Leone movie, end quote. Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, who was additionally involved in that first sequel's overseas sales through United Artists, had attended a packed house screening with some colleagues, including Arnold and David Picker of United Artists, who were bowled over by it.

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Tim Lucas

When Blondie and Tuco go their separate ways, I sense an implication in the film that these two just might cross paths once again, because one good double-cross not only deserves but demands another in Leone's universe, and possibly because these two seem chained to one another in a metaphysical way, in much the way that good needs evil in order to achieve definition. Luciano Vincenzoni wrote a treatment for a sequel that Sergio Leone never approved,

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Tim Lucas

Leone did approach Eastwood to appear in Once Upon a Time in the West. He thought it would be a nice farewell to the Dollars trilogy to have Eastwood, Wallach, and Van Cleef awaiting the train at the station at the beginning of the picture, only to get blown away by Charles Bronson's harmonica, thus launching a new story with a new set of characters. Van Cleef and Wallach were perfectly willing, but Eastwood, perhaps feeling protective of the characters he had so memorably etched in the trilogy, and upon which his stardom had been built,

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Tim Lucas

However, Sergio Leone made the second film after an angry parting of the ways with his producers at Jolly Film, who reportedly had refused to pay his salary on that enormously successful picture unless he promised them a sequel. So Leone angrily walked away from his salary and took up with new producer Alberto Grimaldi, who made him an extremely lucrative offer. Jolly Film, in turn, sued Leone when they heard he was making this film with Eastwood.

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