With Chronicle 2 Fox Wants More Of The Same Rather Than A Next Step

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 10, 2012 4:45 pm EST

Speaking to The Playlist, John Landis said,

Sounds like a very believable studio scenario. It’s might be what Trank was talking about in a circumspect way when he said he wanted to work on original stuff rather than jumping right into the sequel for Chronicle — just look at something like the Paranormal Activity series, where there’s no way that Paramount wants something that deviates too far from the template of the first. The idea is to take that success and replicate it, and that is almost certainly Fox’s thought process with Chronicle, as well.

[Max] wrote a sequel and it’s amazing… and the studio read it and said, ‘We want ‘Chronicle’ again!’ And he said, ‘No, this is the sequel, it’s the evolution, and they said ‘No, we want that movie again!’ So it’s difficult, we’re dealing with a difficult business.’