If you gather every cheesy stereotype in the world, and lump them together in a single film, you’ll get Bright. Despite a cool US$90 million budget, Netflix’s biggest original movie project to date was polarising at best, having been relentlessly skewered by critics, while receiving a whopping 11 million streams during its opening weekend.
But money trumps everything, doesn’t it? So it’s no real surprise that the film, dubbed by many as the “Worst Movie of 2017”, is receiving another big budget sequel. In fact, a sequel was planned even before the first movie was premiered, although a release date for the upcoming movie has not yet been announced.
Netflix announced the sequel with a mock audition of “orc” actors trying out for roles in the new movie. You can view it below:
There’ll also be a few changes when the sequel rolls around (nope, Will Smith and Joel Edgerton aren’t going anywhere). Director David Ayer will return to direct and write the sequel, replacing screenwriter Max Landis, so hopefully there’ll be a lot more creative cohesiveness the next time around.
Judging from how Suicide Squad turned out though, our hopes aren’t high. Sorry Ayer, but the facts are the facts. That movie sucked big time.
In any case, Bright isn’t the worst film in the world and we can think of so many other horrendous examples – namely, The Emoji Movie, Transformers 5, and Justice League. It’s just that everything could’ve been so much better. The script looks magic on paper (no pun intended), and the whole modern fantasy vibe is pretty cool.
What should really complement the flying bullets, makeup, and special effects, however, is a lot more thought behind the show’s plot. More background context would be nice too, so that everyone can understand how humans, elves, and orcs came to co-exist, and why wands are so damn powerful, besides the fact that they make most people explode.
Improve all that, and the Bright sequel may be better than the first. It won’t take much for that to happen, though.
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