Repo Man 2 - A Long And Winding Road
A sequel to Alex Cox's masterpiece has been in the offing for an awfully long time...
“I’ve made a film called The Winner which should put an end to all the Las Vegas gambling films that have been in vogue for a while!”
The year is 1996; the venue Nottingham’s brilliant Broadway Cinema; the occasion
a screening of Highway Patrolman and the writer/director of said Mexican cop movie, Alex Cox, has just been asked what he’s been up to lately. Besides The Winner -
a director-for-hire project to which he will dedicate but a single paragraph in his memoir, X Films - the former Mayor of Moviedrome mentions that he has an extended version of his Jose Luis Borges picture Death And The Compass in the works. “And then, of course,” he says with the widest of smiles, “there’s always
Repo Man 2!”
Fast forward 18 years and Repo Man 2: The Wages Of Beer is a living breathing entity. Subtitled The Wages Of Beer (Cox is a huge fan of H-G Clouzot’s suspense classic as well as William Friedkin’s remake), the picture’s set to star Kiowa Gordon, a German-born actor raised on a Hualapai Indian Reservation in Arizona whose credits include the key role of shape-shifter Embry Call in the Twilight saga, a big part in the acclaimed Native American crime drama Dark Winds and an appearance in Taika Waititi’s award-winning Reservation Dogs. As you might have guessed, Gordon will essay Otto, the part originated by Emilio Estevez.
As for behind the camera, the estimable Mr Cox will write and direct while his regular collaborator Lorenzo O’Brien (Walker, Highway Patrolman, The Winner, Death And The Compass) shares the producing duties with Luke Taylor, Matthew Helderman, Ram Getz and Michael Mortensen.
In the years since he last worked with Alex, O’Brien has enjoyed globe-spanning success with Netflix’s Narcos for Netflix, while Helderman and Taylor’s production company Buffalo 8 also scored on the streaming service with Conversations With A Serial Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes.
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