Producer Tom
Rosenberg confirmed that
Crank 2: High
Voltage will shoot, as the script was finished before the writer’s
strike. The concept of Chev Chelios revived with an electric heart will allow
filmmakers
Mark Neveldine and
Brian Taylor
to ramp up their extreme style.
"What
propels Jason
[Statham] is even more extreme than the drug that he took [in the first
Crank]," said
Rosenberg.
Rosenberg plans to bring the sequel in under relatively the same budget, except
of course for certain talent. "We had to pay Jason more and the instructors more
and so forth, but we generally don’t do that where the sequel becomes so much
bigger and less likely to be successful. No, the style will be the same, the
shooting schedule is within two to three days of the [first] one."
This
time, the filmmakers will likely not write themselves into a corner by
re-killing Chev at the end. Rosenberg indicates Crank could also be a
trilogy. "We’ll see. It leaves off where that’s possible. If the public embraces
it, I think it’s going to be bigger than the first one."
