Spring Breakers Is Getting A Sequel
Sprang Breaaak forever.
Yep, it’s happening. In the Cannes slate announcement from Paris-based distribution company Wild Bunch, tucked between a remake of 1980 cult hit Maniac Cop and a new film from Robocop’s Paul Verhoeven, is a little film they like to call Spring Break: The Second Coming — with a screenplay written by Trainspotting‘s Irvine Welsh.
According to Screen Daily, the film — a sequel to Harmony Korine’s 2012 hit Spring Breakers, which followed the descent of four hard-partying college girls into drugs, crimes, and all manner of bikini-clad adventures — will be a co-production with Muse Productions, who own the rights. It’ll be helmed by Swedish director Jonus Akerlund (Spun), feature a mix of old and new cast (no details on James Franco, unfortunately), and follow the Spring Breakers as they “do battle with an extreme militant Christian sect that attempts to convert them.”
“It’s not a direct sequel,” says Wild Bunch co-chief Vincent Maraval, “although there are allusions to some of the characters in the original.”
We predict allusions to some of the skin in the original, too.
