Renny Harlin talks The Long Kiss 2

Posted on March 16, 2009
Filed Under Actors, Actresses, Directors, Sequel

It wasn’t that hard to select todays topic, my dear readers. I saw the names Harlin and Jackson and I just knew… Sequel-time! And let’s be honest people – we all love sequels. It’s safe ‘n’ comfy.  Dark Horizons reports that while out doing promotions for “12 Rounds“, director Renny Harlin revealed that a sequel to his 1996 hit “The Long Kiss Goodnight” is in the works, but it may be a while off.

“You know I would love to make the sequel and I’ve talked about it but it’s definitely a rumour. Right now there’s nothing really cooking on it” said the Finnish director.

In the original, Geena Davis played spy Samantha Caine who lost her memory and became a housewife. Soon her real memories and skills start to re-emerge and Mitch Henessey (played by Sam Jackson) gets pulled along for the ride as she hunts down those who tried to kill her.

The sequel would focus on Jackson alone and Harlin admits he has a story ready for it – “I do have a story line for it, that I worked out and I know exactly what would happen and I think it would be fantastic and I can reveal as much as saying it would be Sam Jackson to his misfortune crossing paths with Geena Davis’s daughter from the first movie who in the first movie was about six years old and who would now be about 19 or 20.”

The setup sounds ok but it’s a bit sad Geena can’t be in it. But then again, when a marriage goes south and the whole divorce thing happens no one really expects the two to work together again. But that makes this sequel more of a… spin-off? Sure, Samuel L. Jackson is in it but Geena’s character in the original “The Long Kiss Goodnight” was the main attraction.

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