With the passing of David Hess I got thinking about the supposed release of this film which I read about a while ago.
It was announced earlier in the year that a UK company called North Bank Entertainment are producing a sequel directed by Deodato starring both Radice and Hess, the story according to Imdb being:
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After thirty years at the mercy of a brutal Warden in Sing Sing prison, Ricky is released and returns to the old garage in New York City. Desperate for a place to belong, he falls in with a dangerous sociopath named The Poet and his blood thirsty girlfriend Muriel. But the memories of Ricky's old friend Alex continue to haunt him.
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What do people think of this? It's an interesting and fairly unlikely choice for a sequel to be honest. Do you get worried when a director goes back to a film years and years later? I personally always worry that they can never recapture what they had. I'm not sure what Hess' involvement in this would have been (flashbacks? dream sequences?) but I suspect this will still go ahead regardless now as a tribute to him perhaps.
edit: apparently Hess was never meant to be in it according to Radice in Feb this year
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Originally Posted by Giovanni Lombardo Radice Friends and fans, I got the official permission to announce that Ruggero Deodato and myself are working on the sequel of HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK with North Bank Entertainment company in UK. We are very excited, but very sorry that, due to too many bullets through his body, David Hess can't be in it. But we hope he will approve of the project which will be somehow dedicated to him. |