Lou Diamond Phillips would nonetheless get pleasure from to do Younger Guns 3, but reveals who is stopping the sequel from obtaining created.

It is been thirty-4 many years offered that the extremely final Younger Guns motion image was released, and although the strong would appear match to return for Younger Guns 3, it hasn’t took spot. When speaking on the Inside of You podcast hosted by Michael Rosenbaum, Lou Diamond Phillips dropped a handful of information about the extremely lengthy-awaited sequel and who is maintaining it up.

When questioned if he would take into consideration accomplishing Young Guns 3, Phillips mentioned, “Not only would I contemplate it, I stated yes to it.” The actor stated that Emilio Estevez had designed a “wonderful script” in the previous quantity of years and had bumped the timeline ahead “to place us at the age we are now.“

“With out supplying much too a lot away, these of us whose deaths ended up off-digital camera get to appear back again,” Phillips teased, incorporating that initial author John Fusco was onboard and Estevez was also going to direct it. The job in truth acquired even a lot more forward than you may well assume, with Estevez acquiring completed significantly of spot scouting and putting with each other a fantastic deal of storyboards. So, what transpired? Phillips explained that Morgan Creek has “place the kibosh on it for the time presently getting.“

Phillips ongoing, “For some motive, Morgan Creek would like to handle the home, but as far as I know, they’re not carrying out nearly anything with it, so it just appears genuinely counterproductive to me.” Morgan Creek had declared a reboot of Younger Guns in 2017, but as Phillips stated, they have not completed a heck of a fantastic deal with it. I’d say let the initial cast return for Young Guns 3 prior to it will get far also late.

Estevez spoke about the attainable sequel final calendar year. “It all will come down to the legal minds that perform out IP. Listen, I’m all set to go. We have a wonderful draft and if we can figure out the copyrights on all of this, and if Morgan Creek can kind of untangle from some of the problems that they’ve bought in phrases of continuing the franchise, we’re ready to go,” Estevez talked about. “So it is just a issue of when. Of course, I’m not acquiring any youthful, so I think we’ll drop the ‘young’ from the title, which we’ve completed. But I take into account that Westerns remaining revived definitely plays to our achieve.“

The initially Younger Guns film follows a group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Child, who come to be deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who turned their benefactor. Emilio Estevez played Billy the Child, with Lou Diamond Phillips as Jose Chavez y Chavez, Kiefer Sutherland as Josiah Gordon “Doc” Scurlock, Charlie Sheen as Richard “Dick” Brewer, Dermot Mulroney as “Dirty” Steve Stephens, and Casey Siemaszko as Charlie Bowdre.