SEPTEMBER, 12



HITMAN: SHADOW OF A LEGEND

Action

The Cast: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Kiefer Sutherland, Misha Barton, Ben McKenzie, Arnold Vosloo

The Director: Tony Scott
The Screenwriter and Producer: John Daws

The Plot: 5 years after the event of Hitman 3 the Brotherhood have re-structured. Father Daniels (Ian Mckellen), the newest member of the Brotherhood, is assigned to look after JJ and new recruit Jason Belling (Ben Mckenzie) a young American brought to England by Father Daniels is working with JJ learning the ropes to eventually replace him.

JJ along with his wife Lousie (Kate Beckinsdale) are on their hunnymoon in Cuba when while eating in a resturant enjoying their time together a car screams past hurtling bullets into the resturant. JJ quickly pulls Louise and himself under the table. People scream and fall around them. JJ gets up and runs to the front while Lousie nurses a young women who has fallen next to them. JJ comes back inside and sees an old lady crying with a man in her arms. She says that he is the owner of the resturant and says that they have been after him for a long time. He asks who 'they' are and she explains they are the people who wanted him to be quiet and not speak his views. The old man was a advocate of allowing America into the country and had been getting a following in Cuba. These people thought differently.

Meanwhile back in the UK Jason has been assigned to follow and protect a lady called Christina Fallen (Mischa Barton) who is going to Belgium as a peace diplomat. She is supposedly the most viable chance there has been in a long time to secure a settlement between parties in the middle east as her diplomatic skills are well known. It had come to the attention of the Brotherhood that there is a big danger she may be a target and that even some of her own people may be involved.

JJ calls Father Daniels and tells him what has happened and Daniels says that this has been a big problem for a long time. Many Cubans work with people in the middle east and approve of the conflicts against the west and are worried that they may become targets should they start allowing America into their country.

He assigns JJ to find out more and he obliges. Lousie is not happy and he apologises but explains that she knew who he was before they married.

The plane lands in Belgium and they get to the baggage depot. Her aids big up her bag and they start to walk of. She asks for something to be retrieved from the bag. The man carrying the bag opens it and a bomb explodes blood covers her and Jason smothers Christina. The entourage pull him off and pin him down. He explain he was just trying to help and that he was a jounalist from America covering the story (that was the cover given to him)

She tells them to leave him alone as he protected her and asks her to come with him from now on. Her cheif of staff Dan Walters (Keifer Sutherland) is not happy about this and tells Jason he will be watching him closely.

JJ meanwhile has been investigating and found where the people in car could be found. He finds a bar and walks in. Sitting around a table are a group of men and a man giving out orders to them in what sounds like arabic. He interrupts the men and asks what they are talking about. They tell him to leave and JJ asks the leader his name. He laughs and tells the others to back down. He asks JJ to sit and says that his given name is Michael McGiven but his chosen name is Salah Khaffi (Ewan McGreggor). JJ realises that this gentleman is in fact from Scotland. JJ confronts the man and asks what is going on. Ewan asks if JJ is a believer in the Americans and all the power they have. Would it not be better to be rid of them? JJ says that he is crazy and should come to his senses. He angers Salah and he orders the others to dispose of him. A fight takes place and Salah escapes.

JJ wins the fight leaving the others dead on the floor. He contacts Father Daniels but he is not available. He is told that he is on the plane to Belguim as there has been some trouble there that needs to be resolved.

In Belgium the conference has now started and Jason is sitting there listening to Christina work. He is amazed at how well they listen and how well she can keep everyone calm. His phone then rings and Father Daniels tells him to come outside.

When outside Daniels is waiting for him. Jason asks what he is doing there and he tells them he knows the men who are going to assaninate her. He tells Jason to go to the HQ for these men and he will watch over Christina.

JJ is interrogating one of the people who he fought with (the only survivor) and he explains that he will be on a plane to Belgium to make sure that their plan goes smoothly. JJ sure no more information can be taken from this man and so he snaps his neck and he dies.

He quickly calls back the brotherhood and get them to book a private jet to Belgium.

The conference breaks and Father Daniels approaches Christina. He tells her who he is and that she is in grave danger and needs to go with him. Dan Walters concerned with this news agrees and they proceed to a safehouse that had been arranged before the trip in case of any problems. They leave the rest of the entourage there as they can no longer trust them.

Once they arrive at the safehouse Jason is there strapped down on a table. Christina is then grabbed by Dan and also forced down and tied.

He then turns to Daniels who is then also tied.

The plan lands in Belgium and he is then called by the Brotherhood. They explain that a call was put into them by Daniels telling them that he, Jason and Christina have all been taken hostage and that if JJ does not arrive then they will all be executed. The address is given and he quickly proceeds to the desintation.

When he arrives he is taken to see Salah who tells him that to save their lives he must give his. JJ is confused as to why this matters. They explain that the west cannot interfear with their way and that the Brotherhood is an aid to the west. JJ gives himself in and Christina, Jason and Daniels are released. Salah phone then rings he answers and talks for a couple of minutes. He then hangs up and looks startled. He quickly shouts orders to the men around him who then hurry. JJ asks what is wrong. He explains that his boss is arriving and will have another surprise for you.

JJ tells Jason to get Daniels and Chrisitna to safety. As they go to leave Daniels turns and pulls a gun on Christina. Jason freezes and asks what he is doing. Daniels then starts talking to Salah in Arabic. JJ looking shocked towards Salah is then told that Daniels is in fact his Father and was put in the Brotherhood to make sure that everything plans out.

A loud bang and scream in the next room is heard and then everything goes silent. The door then opens and out walks a man with his face covered. He tears away the mask and a terribly deformed face stares into JJ. He asks if he remembers him and asks if he remembers what he has done. JJ does not know the man. He then asks if he remembers this. He promptly leads JJ into the next room where he sees Lousie being lying on a cross that has not been erected yet. JJ then jumps back, and says in a confused tone that it cannot be possible. The man in Sergio Vaz Te (Arnold Vosloo). Sergio explain that he has waited along time for his revenge and that he should check his kills to make sure that they are. Sergio had not died all those years ago and had been plotting his revenge since. Now he will destroy everything that destroyed him. He switches to a TV which is showing a CCTV camera of the Brotherhoods HQ. All the memebers are sitting on chairs. A man walks along and promptly shoots each one in the head.

In all the drama Jason sees and oppourtunity and swings Daniels gun away from Christinas head. He shoots and it hits JJ. Jason battles the gun away and shoots Daniels. Aware of his primary mission he takes Christina and runs. Shooting some men trying to stop him.

Salah quickly runs to his Father lying lifelessly on the floor. Sergio turns and laughs at JJ. He orders his men to raise the cross. JJ needs to think fast. He sees a gun in the back of Sergios suit trousers and takes it out. He shoots the two men and Sergio quickly turns to shoot JJ which he does. A loud bang from behind him startles him as JJ falls to the floor Jason comes in and shoots Sergio between the eyes. Salah gets and hurtles towards Jason taking him down. A huge fight takes place. Salah runs towards a beaten Jason but he trips and falls. Jason then gets up, breaks a table leg and thrusts it into his heart. He falls down and dies. Jason runs to JJ to check on him. JJ has died. The bullet straight into his heart. Christina runs in and over to Louise. Blood pouring down her arms and feet from the nails in her. Jason comes over and pulls the nails out and picks her up and carries. The police arrive and JJ's body is taken.

The final scene is of a funeral for JJ and the members of the Brotherhood. attended by Jason, Louise (who is in a wheelchair) and Christina. With the Brotherhood now killed off Lousie vows to carry on her husbands work. Jason is still very bemused by things and tells them he does not know how any one man can have gone through all that JJ had. He says he will stay and help but is not sure that he can ever do what this man has done.


Stark’s Comment: Fifth episode of the saga. It jumps on time again and, after the prequel ‘Hitman: Pain Of Destiny’, this one takes place right after the three original movies… although it has a direct connection with the prequel. The death of Hitman assures that this will be the last work for Farrell in the saga. So this release becomes a special event for the Studio as Hitman has become one of our most popular trademarks and this might be its end… or not?

BULLET WITCH

Action

The Cast: Hillary Swank, Eric Bana, Alan Arkin. Voices of Michael Douglas, Christopher Lee.

The Director: McG
The Screenwriter: David Makalaster

The Plot: Some time in 2008, the world becomes overrun by demonic creatures. Noone knows where they came from or why, but they nearly overpower humanity and enslave large parts of the world, turning people into Geists, undead soldiers of the demon cause.

For 6 years the war rages, wittling away at earth's population, before the tides turn. A young girl (Alicia -H.Swank-) emerges from the wasteland surrounding New York City, wielding a magical rifle-like weapon (The Gunrod) and the demon's own spells. However, she has no recollection of how she gained these abilities, only that she must use them to help humanity fight the demons.

With her follows an invisible entity known as Darkness (Voice of M.Douglas) that only makes itself heard by her, providing her spells as wells as intimate knowledge of the various demons she encounters. It claims not to know Alicia's origin but seems to accidentally say too much at times.

Alicia fights her way through NYC, looking for survivors along the way. In central park, she finds a group of soldiers under attack by the demon overlord of the city, Omega (Voice of C.Lee). While Alicia seems unable to hurt Omega using either her Gunrod or magic, she manages to distract it while the soldiers retreat into the subway system. The soldiers, lead by Sergeant Maxwell Cougar (E.Bana), are grateful for the rescue, but suspicious about Alicia's ability to use magic. Also, Maxwell is worried by the fact that Alicia's arrival was predicted in an old journal that had been found by one of the demon gateways onto earth. The journal speaks of a girl dying in a plane crash, which Alicia suddenly remembers to be herself, and the demonic pact made by her father (A.Arkin) to bring her back to life. The pact also opened a gateway for the demons into our world, and trapped the man as a key in the lock of the gateway.

Despite the Darkness insistence to write this off as demon manipulation, Alicia decides to travel to the location mentioned in the journal, Salem's Creek, Arizona, and find her father. To this end, she pretends to accompany the humans to the last remaining human stronghold in North America, situated in a military fort outside Los Angeles. The group fight their way to the airport, including being chased through the tunnels by a giant worm demon, which devours many of the soldiers.

Once having acquired a plane, the group flies west towards security, Alicia is about to bail out when the worm demon returns, having sprouted wings and attempts to eat the plane whole. Alicia climbs out onto the wings of the plane and fights the demon and the myriad familiars it spawns. Finally, she kills it by calling down a lightning strike onto it, but as it falls dying to earth, it knocks out one of the planes engines, sending it spiraling to a similar fate.

The plane crashes a while outside Salem's Creek, with a seriously wounded Maxwell and Alicia as the only survivors. After patching up Maxwell as best she can, Alicia leaves to find her father. As she fights her way closer to the town, Darkness tries harder and harder to convince her to leave, even threatening her, and eventually withdraws all of her magic abilities. She still manages to find her father, impaled above a pit descending into the bowels of the demon's realm, kept alive by magic to keep the gateway open.

Her father (who reveals himself as Frederick Cavia), begs forgiveness for the horror he unleashed by the pact. He tells Alicia of her past, how she was killed in a plane crash on the way to visit him, and the pact he made with the demon Ursar to bring her back to life. However, the demon used this contact as an opportunity to widen the rift between the planes and let through his forces for an invasion. He also reveals the Darkness to be a rival demon of Ursar, Csiram, who snuck through the rift created during the contact and attached itself to the reborn Alicia in order to counteract Ursar's invasion plans. Darkness admits this to be true, but denies aiming to take earth for himself afterwards, claiming not to be powerful enough.

Frederick then asks Alicia to kill him in order to close the gate and end his suffering. In spite of Darkness' protests, Alicia does so and the pit collapses, taking Frederick's corpse with it. Darkness, now stranded on earth, agrees to help Alicia rid the world of the remaining demons and Geists. Also, through exposure to the gateway, he was able to retrieve more powerful magic from his plane, so that Alicia may be able to hurt Omega. After a quick visit to the plane wreckage to pick up Maxwell, the trio sets their sights on New York City.


Stark’s Comment: A non-stop action show with the peculiar McG’s visual style. Based on an Xbox game. Plenty of digital effects – including digitally generated characters -, high budget, breathtaking storyline… everything designed to make it a blockbuster. And I think it will be.

NIGHT CAB

Comedy / Dark

The Cast: George Clooney, Sasha Baron Cohen, Christopher Walken, Estella Warren, Oliver Platt

The Director: Steven Sorderbergh
The Screenwriter: Matt Kubrick

The Plot: On one dark night in New York City a man by the name of Mr. Black (G.Clooney) has a special job, he's a hitman. After a botched hit he is attacked by gunmen and is forced to flee, his only option, jump into a cab.

There he meets a cab driver from a third world country named Abdhoul (S.B.Cohen). He can barely speak american.

Mr. Black has just started a mob war in the city and with his new unlikey ally, they drive to all over the city over the course of one long night trying to hide out, kill assasins and figure out a way to make it out of the city alive.

Along his journey he will come across run ins with bums, junkies, hookers and one pissed off strip club owner (O.Platt) that ends in a fight over feeling up one of the strippers (E.Warren).

Finally he decides to go to his boss (C.Walken) for help but he soon learns that his boss has turned on him. After putting a bullet straigh through his head Mr. Black is forced to flee in the cab once again.

It all comes down to a massive airport shoot out filled with cops and various hitmen from different families as Mr. Black fights to make it out of the city in one piece and survive the night.


Stark’s Comment: A funny and light product just looking for entertainment. Personally, I think Clooney and Cohen make an original and wonderful starring couple, as no-one could have ever imagined them together in a movie. This is the classic hit or miss release people may love or ignore. I like it.



THE FUNERAL DRUM: One of the main appeals of this cops drama written by James Bradley and Joey Stark will be, without doubt, its cast. Together with the starring couple (Sean Penn and Julia Roberts) will be seen, among others, stars like Edward Burns – a curiosity: he will play again Julia’s couple as he already did in ‘Warlands’ -, William Hurt (‘The Clown Smile’, ‘The Caves Of Steel’) and two GMA winner Clint Eastwood, making his first acting work for the Studio after directing ‘Dakota North’ – where he already worked with Sean Penn – and the awarded ‘Nagasaki Daydreams’.

Q*BERT: Everything is ready for the release of this new David Zucker’s comedy starred by Will Ferrel. Two more names can be added to the cast: CMP’s debutante Harland Williams and Taye Diggs, previously seen in ‘Get Christie Love!’

PREACHER: Ron Pearlman is close to equalize with Patrick Stewart as the most demanded talent in CMP. He has been in quite a few big CMP’s productions before and he won’t miss this one either. R. Lee Ermey, recently seen in ‘A Standing Eight’, will also be in this one.

CIVILIZATION M: New pitch from Josh Collins. A sci-fi story about aliens invading Earth. Collins has defined it as ‘a tribute to old Twilight Zone stories’. Eric Bana, just finished his work in this week’s release ‘Bullet Witch’, has been announced as the lead star of this movie. Barry Sonnenfeld ('T.Y.M.: The Second Chance') is the main candidate to direct it.

WILD CARDS: DOUBLE SOLITAIRE: No new characters are expected to be introduced in this new episode of the saga, as it has usually happened in previous ones. This time, the movie will tell two parallel stories: one of them will be focussed in the group of peculiar superheroes seen in the third episode (Elijah Wood, Liv Tyler, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Schwartzman). The other storyline will look at Doctor Taychon, played by Kenneth Branagh, and also previously seen in other episodes of the franchise.

THE THINKING MAN: Here is the last screenplay written by Marcus Trax, as it was recently announced. He has chosen for his farewell to reunite again the team he previously worked with in movies like ‘Smoke Signals’, ‘Parody Of Arts’, ‘No Evil’ and ‘Drawing Dreams’: director David Mamet and star Johnny Depp. This fifth work together is said to be a dramedy and Trax has only said by now that this time – as it happened in ‘No Evil’ – Depp won’t be playing the lead character but a supporting one.

FALLOUT: Some CMP’s debutantes join the cast of this Richard Donner and Richard Franzwa’s sci-fi adventure starred by Hugh Jackman and Robert Downey Jr. They are Chloe Sevigny, Ted Levine and Asia Argento.

LIEUTENANT USA AND HIS WARM STEEL GANG 2: Ivan Reitman (‘The Mogulers’, ‘The Tempting Diamond’, ‘TYM: The Inferno Revenge’) has replaced David Zucker behind the cameras in this sequel. And he has announced that, this time, the gang will face a wide group of villains. Jon Heder will be one of them, in his first work for the Studio. Another one will be GMA Winner Sharon Stone, already directed by Ivan Reitman in ‘The Tempting Diamond’ and last time seen in CMP in ‘The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger’.

DR. JONES AND THE CURSED TREASURE: The shooting of the new Dr. Jones’ adventure has already begun now that Ewan McGregor has finished his work in the new ‘Hitman’ movie. It will take place in different locations around the world, mainly in the island of Borneo. There are more returns besides McGregor: Philip Seymour Hoffman returns as his colleague and best friend and Rachel McAdams returns as his wife.

THE SIXTH AVENUE CASTAWAYS: James Bradley likes peculiar premises for his stories. This one, that will be his second directional job after ‘Celebutantes’, is a really original one. The movie will tell the story of two characters living in New York City as the only two survivors of the human race after a global cataclysm. But Bradley has said that it has nothing to do with ‘I Am Legend’ or movies like that. According to Bradley, ‘the movie is a dramedy, almost a romantic comedy, far away from sci-fi’.


‘THE ICE PRINCESS’
By Anne Roman

Last week, CMP released its most successful production up until now. Everybody was taken by surprise at the Studio when this modest animated feature suddenly became an unexpected phenomenon. The movie deserves a special ‘look at’ to analyze this surprising hit. Some keywords of the project below:

SURPRISE: Now it is easy for everyone at CMP saying they knew the movie would work that well. But a confidential source from inside the Studio recently revealed me the truth: ‘To be honest, nobody at the Studio trusted much in this project’, says one of the main CMP’s producers, ‘We had not been lucky with animation since the Robotech movies. Remember what happened with ‘Happy Hamsters’ and ‘Calvin & Hobbes’. In fact, we had shut down our Animation Division long time ago. Stark had even cut down the initial budget approved for ‘The Ice Princess’ so, in fact, it was a pretty cheap movie to produce. It’s been quite a wonderful shock for all of us. And now, it is funny to watch how the boss is desperately looking for new animation pitches to develop.”

NUMBERS: The success of ‘The Ice Princess’ is amazing if we look at the numbers. Before its release, the CMP’s alltimes box office Top 1 was ‘Game Boy 2: Warlands’. This movie made 265 millions in box office. That means that ‘The Ice Princess’ has made 51 millions more than that… and 87 millions more than the next one in the list (‘Star Wars: New Order’)!!! So it is not only the new box office top 1 but it is so with a huge difference. And looking only at net gains, ‘The Ice Princess’ made 320 millions. That means 70 millions more than the second best (‘Star Wars: New Order’). Remember that production budget for ‘The Ice Princess’ was close to half the budget assigned to the Star Wars or the Game Boy episodes. So we are not talking here of a leadership by a slight difference but a one and only unique event completely different from any other previous CMP’s release.

ADAMSON AND KUBRICK: Everybody attributes to Andrew Adamson most of the credit for this success. The director of ‘Shrek’ had proved to know how to deal with animation movies before. In ‘The Ice Princess’, Adamson has combined with intelligence the digital technicalities with the look of traditional 2D animated features. The result is a movie that looks modern and classic at the same time. As he did with Shrek, Adamson offers something to everyone: action, adventure and a touch of comedy so all kind of audiences from kids to adults may enjoy the film. Kubrick’s screenplay is the perfect material for that, as he has built up a story that sometimes deliberately looks as a tribute to many other movies and, at the same time, it also gets to look as something fresh and new.

VOICES: It is obvious that CMP did not bet for this movie. If you look at the cast of voices in the ‘Game Boy’ movies or in the rest of previous animated features, it is evident that the Studio was not interested in spending too much money on hiring talents here. John Lithgow had not even worked for the Studio before. And Cameron Diaz – voice also in ‘Robotech 2’ – has not succeded in CMP the way she has outside of it. Her only live action movie for the Studio has been the flop ‘Minos’. A poor cast of voices that proves the lack of confidence the Studio had in this production.

WHY?: There is not an specific explanation for this success. Audiences some times decide to love a movie much more than any expert from the Hollywood Studios would have ever predicted. ‘Mouth to Ear’ has always been the best marketing campaign. In fact, ‘The Ice Princess’ did not have a huge campaign supported by the Studio. Is ‘The Ice Princess’ the best movie ever produced by CMP? Of course not. Is it the best animation feature released lately? Not at all. It stays very far away from the quality of some Pixar productions like, just to mention one, ‘Wall*E’. Does it offer something really new, innovative, special or particularly shocking? Well, not really. But… people loves it. That’s all. And trying to understand why is just a loss of time.

SO…: So, as my confidential source tells me, now Harry Stark has given a straight and clear order to all his executives: go out there and find me more animated pitches. CMP used to have an Animation Division – its head was Robotech movies’ director and producer Michael Bay – but it shut down after the poor results of ‘Happy Hamsters’ and ‘Calvin & Hobbes’. Since then, all screenwriters were afraid of writing animated pitches. Only Matt Kubrick, always brave and indifferent to tendencies, decided to try luck with ‘The Ice Princess’. Now, animation is the new target of the Studio. But does that mean that future animated projects will work as amazingly well as ‘The Ice Princess’. Obviously not. Phenomenons only take place from time to time.


This week, CMP releases the fifth episode of the already legendary saga ‘Hitman’, which has been part of the Studio’s history since almost its opening. To commemorate this event, ‘Vanity Fair’ has published a cool and sexy illustrated report with Colin Farrell and the three most important women in Hitman’s life: Kate Beckinsale, Keira Knightley and Kate Beckinsale. Here’s one of the pictures from ‘Vanity Fair’.




Ok, ok, everybody is talking about ‘The Ice Princess’ – that silly little production that has proved how wrong moviegoers may be some times – but a promise is a promise and I said I would write this week about that unnecessary sequel from another incomprehensible CMP’s hit, ‘Lieutenant USA’… or how brainless moviegoers can turn a silly joke into a blockbuster production (and I'm talking about Lit. USA, not 'Captain Planet', that other succesful silly joke...).

Yes, the sequel is on its way. But will there ever be a ‘Lieutenant USA 3’? Probably not. Things have not been easy for the first sequel of the most profitable CMP’s comedy ever as difficulties have enclosed this project from the very beginning. Here goes a juicy story about a troubled production.

First, it was the absence of Zach Braff’s character in John Daws’ screenplay. Not only Braff himself but the whole Warm Steel Gang and even Harry Stark protested to Daws for it. But the screenwriter didn’t want to change his mind and kept Braff away, replacing him in the gang with Dwayne Johnson. Steve Carrel has recently said about it: ‘We miss Zach. As the gang we are we should be all together back again. I can’t understand why this could not be solved. Dwayne is a great addition, but I think fans are going to miss Zach’s character.’

But Braff was not the only star missed in the set. Harry Stark would have liked Charlize Theron returning to the franchise too. ‘Charlize was great in the first movie. She showed a wonderful comedy side and she is a very popular CMP’s star. I would have loved to see her back in the sequel’, he has said. Even Will Ferrell, the villain of the first movie, would have been very much welcome to the sequel, but that’s another option Daws did not considered.

So the pre-production of the sequel already started with a general unease and discomfort.

Oblivions have not been the only problem. Also, desertions. David Zucker, director of the first movie, decided not to return behind the cameras for the sequel. Rumours say that he didn’t like the screenplay enough. But the ‘official’ reason is that he was too busy directing another CMP’s comedy, ‘Q*Bert’, precisely starred by Will Ferrell, one of the stars forgotten in the sequel. In fact, ‘Q*Bert’ is said to be the big rival of ‘Lieutenant USA 2’ to become the most popular and successful comedy of this Season. Ivan Reitman is a good replacement for Zucker but his desertion may be another prove of how things have been going on in the insides of this project.

More problems? Of course! Things have changed a lot for the members of the gang since the first movie was released. Owen Wilson has starred a few comedy hits since then (‘The Metal’, and specially the blockbuster ‘Captain Planet’). And Jack Black is the brand new winner of the latest Best Actor GMA. And what does that mean? They both had signed the contract for the sequel when the first movie was produced. But now they have demanded Stark to recognize their new status as major CMP’s stars. And that means two things: more money and more presence in the story. But Stark made it clear for them since the very first moment: their contract – and salary – for the sequel was already closed. And not a single cent more will be given to them. And Steve Carrel will remain as the lead star of the show. So dissatisfaction, jealousy and rivalry were served.

The consequence of all this? The atmosphere in the set has not been exactly ‘an old friends happy reunion’, as CMP pretends to sell us. Some confidential sources have pointed out the bad relationship between Carrel, Wilson and Black and the consequent ‘tension’ during the shooting.

So it seems like harmony is gone inside the Warm Steel Gang and, no matter box office’s results, it will be very hard for the Studio to put up the gang together again if a ‘Lieutenant USA 3’ is ever considered. But who knows… Money rules in Hollywood and if the movie works in box office all this may be forgotten and we may suffer… I mean, have new episodes of the Gang in the future.