Sometimes the best conditions don’t bring anything at all. Jason Statham can tell you a thing or two: For years he and director Paul Feig (Bride Alarm) wanted to make a sequel to the great action comedy Spy – Susan Cooper Undercover. But nothing happened. Why not?
Jason Statham’s forgotten action hit deserves a sequel for 1,000 reasons
Spy revolves around CIA bureaucrat Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy), who assists agents on missions from her desk. When the identities of various CIA spies are revealed, Cooper is tasked with taking on a very dangerous mission himself. From veterans like Rick Ford (Jason Statham) The desk worker initially only gets ridicule for this.
Check out the trailer for Spy here:
Spy Susan Cooper Undercover – Trailer (German) HD
Spy was a complete success. As Metacritic shows, the film was very well received by professional audiences and, according to The Numbers, grossed more than three times its production budget. But apparently that wasn’t enough to make a sequel, as our colleagues at Espinof discovered.
“We have so far [Spy 2] not rotated, because the studio [20th Century Fox] has no interest“, Director Feig explained to Games Radar 2019. A situation that Jason Statham doesn’t like either:
“I want to do another Spy part“, he explained to Entertainment Weekly in 2021 and was enthusiastic about Feig’s work as a director. So all the lights for a sequel are actually green. It is not known why 20th Century Fox did not want to continue the franchise. But maybe there is a way now.
After all, 20th Century Fox has now been taken over by Disney. It’s quite possible that the mouse studio is more interested in a sequel to the successful comedy. Feig, Statham and all fans of the action hit would thank him.
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