Earning a sequel to the beloved 1980 film The Blues Brothers following costar John Belushi’s dying was presently going to be a tough challenge. Director John Landis states film executives developed it not doable by interfering with the script for 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000.

“I was incredibly pissed off by what Universal did to me on Blues Brothers 2000 and that was my to start with working experience with the new corporate Hollywood,” the Animal Home, Trading Spots and Coming to The united states director instructed IFC in 2011. “Anything is by committee now, and they wrecked that motion picture, nevertheless the tunes is still great. This takes place to filmmakers all the time, where by producers and studios fuck with their picture, and when you might be marketing the motion picture you won’t be able to say that.”

In 2004 Landis advised the AV Club that he, Belushi and Dan Aykroyd had planned to make a Blues Brothers sequel, but Belushi’s 1982 death scuttled that program. Aykroyd in the end rekindled the band with Jim Belushi and John Goodman alternately filling in for John, and in the late ’90s Aykroyd and Landis determined the time was right for a sequel.

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“We wrote what I assumed was a marvelous script,” Landis recalled. “Then Universal Studios eviscerated it. That was a peculiar encounter, simply because the to start with issue they reported was that it experienced to be PG, which meant they could not use profanity, which is basically cutting the Blues Brothers’ nuts off. The initially film is an R-rated movie, but there’s no nudity or violence in it. It is really just the language. Then they explained, ‘You have to have a boy or girl, you have to have…’ The base line was, the only way that film was likely to get created was to agree with everything they mentioned.”

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Right immediately after a surely touching opening scene that finds Ayrkoyd’s Elwood Blues prepared in vain for Belushi’s Jake Blues to choose him up from prison, Blues Brothers 2000 swiftly devolves into a disjointed mess complete of cliched people today and toothless retreads of the comedic set things from the initial film. The motion image was largely panned upon release, and swiftly vanished from film theaters.

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Landis claims Aykroyd was prepared to endure the studio interference for a very noble lead to: He expected to use the motion image to document blues and soul legends such as Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, B.B King in motion for posterity. “Which is the only time I by no means genuinely fought with the studio, since they didn’t seriously want to make [the movie],” Landis explained. “So we did each individual one issue they claimed. By the time we’d finished that, the script was kind of homogenized and uninteresting. Danny mentioned, ‘It’s about the new music. It is just about the audio, John, so don’t fret about it. We are going to get the finest individuals, and we will make a fantastic album, and get these folks on film. We have to doc these men and women.’”