Listen to him talk about it in this Noveminterview on the Power 105.1 The Breakfast Club with DJ Envy, Angela Yee and Charlamagne Tha God. Only 1,000 copies will be printed they are available from Amazon. **December 2015 Update: Taimak opens up for the first time about what actually happened to The Last Dragon Sequel in his autobiography. Whatever the reason, the sad truth is that The Last Dragon 2 never happened… 🙁 He said in the interview that “it was much more complex than that… it has to do with the dynamics of deal making in Hollywood…it wasn’t that I didn’t want to do it, what 19, 20 year old doesn’t want to continue the fun of making movies… let’s just say part of the people involved in the negotiation tried to muscle me rather than explain to me… the approach… made me put my defenses up.” He also mentioned that Rupert Hitzig didn’t know what happened because he wasn’t in the room during the negotiation. Drama on Breakthru Radio, Taimak suggested that the TVOne special was not accurate as it wasn’t that clear cut. In a TVOne special (watch it below) The Last Dragon’s producer Rupert Hitzig said Taimak (Bruce Leroy) held out for a 3 picture deal. There are conflicting reports and the whole story may never be told.
Why didn’t The Last Dragon Sequel Happen in the 80s? Apparently, the script was written in 1986, but sadly it was never made into a movie.
After the success of The Last Dragon in 1985, there were plans for a part 2 called “The Glow”. Even if it were, there's nothing to suggest that they would follow the customs of that area as it is today.There may or not be a Last Dragon Remake but the fact that a planned Sequel to The Last Dragon never happened back in the ’80s is much more disappointing to me. Though this would, of course, assume that Kumandra is in what is known today as South East Asia. So Raya would call Tong "Uncle Tong", Boun would call Raya "Sister Raya", and Raya would address deity-ish Sisu as "Master Sisu" or "Lady Sisu". In Asian cultures usually you would address people using familial relationship: you would call a person who is around your age or slightly older than you with "brother/sister", person who is in the range of your parent's age with "uncle/auntie", person who is older than that with "grandpa/granny", and revered/high status/deity figure with something like "master/lord/lady". In South East Asian cultures in particular and Asian cultures in general, it's considered very rude to address people who are older or in higher status than you with only their names, such as when Raya calls Tong or Boun calls Raya or Raya calls Sisu (a deity-like figure) with their names only.
0 kommentar(er)
