Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer - Alex Cox

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‘Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer’ – Alex Cox Planning to Direct a Sequel for the Internet Age

“It’s a mystery… it’s a comedy… it’s a chase… it’s the forces of law against the representatives of discontented youth… against the finest minds in government… and they’re all in pursuit of a ’64 Chevy Malibu from… who knows where,” the original theatrical trailer for 1984’s Repo Man previewed. A fitting description for an oddball cult classic that’s… getting a sequel?!

40 years later, director Alex Cox is returning to the world of Repo Man with sequel Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer, and Indiewire broke the news of the project this week.

According to the site, the upcoming sequel Repo Man 2 will “take place in a world of self-driving cars and an even more pressing threat of global destruction.”

“The advent of incredible technology means, for the repo man, that everything has changed — and nothing has changed,” Cox explained to Indiewire in an email this week.

Kiowa Gordon (Twilight) is taking over the leading role of Otto, which was played by Emilio Estevez in the original 1980s movie.

Indiewire details, “The new movie picks up closely after the events of the 1984 original. Having tracked down the mysterious 1967 Malibu from the original film, a car connected to a recent alien sighting and carrying a toxic substance in its trunk capable of disintegrating anyone who looks inside, Otto has driven off into the infinities of space and time. But, as Cox explains, although the world around him has flashed forward into the present day it’s as if no time has passed for him at all.”

Cox is presenting the project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market.