Guys,
as you can read in the "Keoni Waxman Updates" thread, Waxman has asked us to share some ideas with him.
He would like to know which dtv movie of the past 10 years you would like to have a sequel.
Share your ideas in this thread:
Which movie?
Why you think this one must have a sequel? (Think about Steven's character)
What should be the storyline?
Have fun!
As many have noted,
MaxCon really sets itself up for a sequel, even the characters themselves talk about their next big mission at the end of the movie and, as long as it was not set in a prison, it would probably be quite good. They could do a Con Air-style story, with prisoners being transported by plane or (if it's more budget-friendly) by train or boat, and have the prisoners break out, and the two Steves working from the inside to save the day.
Looking through other previous Seagal/Waxman projects, I'd consider maybe
The Keeper, which was a good, solid actioner within Steven's recent output, and whose lead ex-cop-turned-bodyguard character could return for a Man-on-Fire style story involving a child that needs protection, which may be a slightly more interesting story than the usual 20-something girl who Seagal ends up improbably bedding. Seagal could get wounded trying to protect her at the beginning (like he gets shot by his partner at the beginning of The Keeper, and like Denzel goes down in Man on Fire) and then spend the rest of the movie tearing up the streets looking for her. I'd go for New Orleans as a good location to set this.
I also think a
True Justice movie would be really good. They don't even have to market it as a TJ movie (it's not like they marketed Street Wars as being even TJ-related) and could pitch it as a movie about Seagal's Ex-Black-Ops / Ex-Cop who, following an attack on his team, has left the grid to avoid being killed himself, and is looking to finally take down the people responsible. They could use flashbacks from the episodes, have Seagal encounter hit squads along the way sent to kill him, and then have him finally track down the bad guy at the end and bring more than one bullet with him. It doesn't need to be overly complicated, just closure for fans, for the series, and also reasonably coherent as a standalone feature (unlike Street Wars!!).
If we don't have to limit ourselves to just previous Waxman projects in the last decade, then I'd maybe start getting a little more adventurous.
Into the Sun was one of Seagal's most professional projects in the last decade and made excellent use of his bushido skills; giving him a samurai sword and getting him to speak Japanese was a stroke of genius. In an ideal world we'd have Seagal do some period Samurai piece, about a Westerner trained in the art of the samurai (47 Ronin-style) or along the lines of Lone Wolf and Cub, which, I think, would have been perfect for him. But given that he hasn't really done period before, we'd have to instead consider just a Japanese setting, in the modern day, with Yakuza villains once again. In fact it wouldn't even need to be Japan, so long as the Yakuza were heavily involved. Perhaps have his ludicrously-named Travis Hunter called in to help with a murder in a Japanese corporation which has ties to the Yakuza, and teamed-up with a younger upstart (think: Connery and Snipes in Rising Sun, done in a Glimmer Man style, only with more Japanese-speaking from Seagal). We've all complained about Seagal's mumbling and his ADR work which he didn't dub himself, but I think the one time I've been intimidated by Seagal's dialogue was when he was speaking - SHOUTING - Japanese. He's fluent, convincing, aggressive and superb when
not speaking English, lol!
Finally, although it's probably one of the last on anybody's list, I'd put
Submerged forward. Seagal's just finished working with Vinnie Jones again, why not bring back his character as a villain in a sequel to Submerged? The film ended on a sort-of ambiguous ending when it came to the reprogramming of the girl, the sequel could have Cody's team attacked from the inside by this reprogrammed assassin, and him having to go on the offensive to find who is now running these assassins, only to end up facing off against his old friend - who he thought was dead - who was actually saved and brainwashed and is now their lead assassin. Or something. Trouble is, with a name like Submerged, if they go for a sequel, they're going to have to have another damn submarine! The only other option would be to set it on some deep-sea underwater lab (think: The Abyss) where some scientists have mysteriously died, and where, it turns out, the killer was a brainwashed programmed assassin like in the first movie, and his new team get picked off one by one whilst he fights back.
Just off the top of my head...