An idea has been playing at the back of my mind since Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A Dead Poets Society<\/i> sequel.<\/p>\n
I’ve been known to pull out old movies and, as a thought exercise, think about what a sequel to the movie could be. Like musing about a sequel to Three Men and a Little Lady<\/i><\/a> (which is really happening<\/a>), or a sequel to Dave<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n The proximate cause, in this case? A thread at TrekBBS about actors going out on a whimper, not a bang. And you look at Robin Williams’ career, and you wonder — what happened?<\/i><\/p>\n So, a Dead Poets Society<\/i> sequel.<\/p>\n Disney apparently considered making a DPS<\/i> sequel in the early 90s, but Williams had a falling out with Disney after Aladdin<\/i> which may have scuppered any plans for a sequel. And had the film’s original ending been retained, it’s unlikely that there could have been a sequel; teacher John Keating was to have died of cancer, as I recall.<\/p>\n Let’s take as read that a number of years have passed; it’s been twenty years since the film, after all.<\/p>\n Which route do you go?<\/p>\n Another class of students inspired by their teacher? No, that’s boring, repetitive.<\/p>\n The son (or daughter) of one of the original students, trying to piece together the story of his (or her) father’s life? That has more possibilities…<\/p>\n I’m toying around with the idea. On its own, it’s useless; I’ve no interest in writing a screenplay, even for shits and giggles. But maybe it can be useful in another way. Maybe. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An idea has been playing at the back of my mind since Tuesday. A Dead Poets Society sequel. I’ve been known to pull out old movies and, as a thought exercise, think about what a sequel to the movie could be. Like musing about a sequel to Three Men and a Little Lady (which isContinue reading “On Sequel Musings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4102],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}