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Everything ever-so-slightly old is new again, as the decade of the '80s takes over the mantle of sequels, nostalgia and remakes that once belonged to previous decades. There are remakes of Footloose and Clash of the Titans on the way, new versions of Robocop and Red Dawn in the offing, and a big-budget Wham! movie percolating like 20-year-old coffee that inexplicably costs a hundred million dollars to make. With all that nostalgia wafting through the air, I guess it was just a matter of time before Alex Cox picked up on the scent and decided to make a sequel to Repo Man.
What's he going to call it? According to Screen Daily, the title is... Repo Chick. It doesn't quite have the same ring as the first film, does it? Can Cox -- who also wrote and directed the 1984 original -- come up with a name for his titular heroine as clever as Otto Maddox? Speaking of Otto (played by Emilio Estevez), he doesn't have a place in Cox's new script, but "the film will feature some of the same cast as appeared in Repo Man." The plot "will unfold against the backdrop of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S., where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high." Compared to its predecessor's wacked-out plot of punk rock, aliens and CIA agents, this one sounds like Washington Week discussing economics.
Times change, I guess, even as we try to recapture the magic of the past. Otto, once a disenfranchised youth who lived from one repo job to the next, would now be in his forties. He probably isn't in the new movie because he's too busy trying to keep the bank from foreclosing on his own house.
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