Sometimes a news story comes along that makes you want to just give up. That makes you say "Fuck this!" and retreat into a cave of tears and remorse. That makes you lose all faith in anything you once held to be true and good.
A sequel to It's A Wonderful Life is due in December 2015.
Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter Zuzu in the 1946 original, is returning as an angel who shows George Bailey's unpleasant grandson how much better the world would have been had he not existed, in It's A Wonderful Life: The Rest Of The Story, Variety reports.
You may well notice that this seems to be the exact opposite message that made the original such a classic.
This batshit notion is the brainchild-slash-satanspawn of producer (and apparent cinematic heretic) Allen J Schwalb of Star Partners and Bob Farnsworth of Hummingbird.
"The storyline of the new film retains the spirit of the original - every life is important as long as you have friends," Farnsworth said in a statement about the new project's script, which he co-wrote with Martha Bolton. Apparently he read between the lines and also took "people with no friends deserve to die" from the first film.
Attaboy, Farnsworth...
The casting for the lead character of Bailey's grandson will not be decided until February, but producers are said to be in talks with original stars Jimmy Hawkins, who was Tommy Bailey, and Carol Coombs, who played Janie Bailey, to reprise their roles.
Because if there's one thing that can save this obvious trainwreck of a movie, it's casting a bunch of people who were mildly famous for bit-part child roles over sixty-five years ago.
Christmas is cancelled, folks.
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