Mega-Producer Joel Silver & Director Jaume Collet-Serra talked with the press about thier new horror flick "House of Wax" over the weekend and spoke about what's next for both of them.
Collet-Serra says "I would do another horror movie I had a great time, but I'd like to move into action stuff, bigger stuff. I want to explore everything." Silver immediately followed that statement by saying "He's doing another picture for me called The Divide, which will be his next picture."
Will we see a second "House of Wax" flick? Silver says no - that's not what he wants to do anymore - "At Dark Castle we don't make any sequels. There will be "The Reaping" as a sequel, it has nothing to do with it [House of Wax], it's just that's why we made Dark Castle. I've been involved in a lot of sequels and they may have been commercially successful but they weren't successful to me. With the Matrix...they weren't really a sequel they were serial fiction. To create another movie after another one is over just because it was successful I'm not going to do that."
"Wonder Woman" however is a different story - it's aiming to be a franchise from the start it seems. Silver confirmed "I made Joss' deal, Joss Whedon is writing the script. He's finishing Serenity when that movie is done, he's going to turn his attention toward the script. He's got fantastic ideas."
So how did the idea come about? "When we made the first Matrix, I came out of the first test screening, the numbers for Trinity were so much higher than anything else in the movie, people loved that character. I came out of there and said to the studio this is interesting, I said to the boys why don't we make a Trinity movie, they said no they had something else in mind. So I figured we should take something, this was in 99, take Wonder Woman and try something and they said fine. I never really felt I got it till now."
Is he daunted by the way that female action hero franchises haven't been as popular as studios have hoped? No it seems. "They were terrible movies. That's my opinion, I think this is a big constructionist picture, it's property of Warner Bros', the character is the real deal, and if we do it right. Joss has a fantastic take on the story, and if it works the way I think it's going to work, it's going to be fantastic" says Silver.
Thanks to 'Bradley'
