![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps somewhere along the line Matt could have teamed up with the protagonist of Martyr, or gone up against her with an assembled team of amateur superheroes. The tweets offer a rather fascinating glimpse into what Landis had originally planned for his follow-up(s) to Chronicle: a model similar to the Marvel cinematic universe, but done on a much smaller budget with a realist aesthetic and sticking with found footage as the means of telling stories. ![]() "Martyr also had two pretty cool robot suits in it. The multi-movie low Chronicle-based found footage superhero universe culminating in an Avengers type team up was a real good one." Sad I didn't get to do some of my other versions. So, at the end of the day, maybe it's better that Martyr never saw the light of day. In the best of worlds, in my optimistic but wildly prejudiced eyes, this could make it an Aliens, a Terminator 2… in the worst a Grease 2. "It was, in my estimation, a sequel that elaborated on the ideas and situations from the first to create a different genre of movie. In their place was a dark, frustratingly unblinking stare into a complicated world that posed the question is it worth it to be a hero, told from the point of view of a heartbroken and insane woman who would martyr herself to the cause of being the world's first villain. ![]() "Gone was the aspirational 'what would you do,' gone were the pranks and the bromance, gone were lovely tragic Andrew and hopeful, bright Steve. The screenwriter admitted that, " in retrospect, I'm not even sure if fans of the first film would've been ready or eager for my second installment as originally written," but nonetheless outlined the themes that he'd intended to explore in the next chapter of the Chronicle story: Speaking to his fans on Twitter, Landis revealed that he didn't really want to make Chronicle 2 at all, but instead wanted to make a sequel called Martyr that focused on a new and entirely different character. ![]()
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