Monsters 2 is without its Creator

A sequel to Gareth Edwards 2010 debut film Monsters has been announced and is underway.   

The original film delivered a large amount of quality for a very limited budget.  Set in New Mexico in a world where creatures happen to come to Earth (though not much is explained about them), the film focuses on a journalist who is set the task to transport a tourist through the infected zone where the aliens inhabit.  

The sequel however will only be supervised by Edwards and be delivered by two new directors hoping to deliver the same big blockbuster for a small price tag.

Screen Daily says: This story will continue by introducing a teacher living in a protected walled city, who has to go into the infected zone to find his long-lost brother, a former military man who is now a Col. Kurtz-esque figure. Niblo promises “lots more creatures” than the original.

It’s apparently sticking very closely to the feel of the original and will be funded by the British Film Institute and BBC films.

This sequel is stepping on dangerous grounds.  With so many sequels in the past carrying on without a large proportion of their original creators input it so easily falls apart and fails to capture the imaginations the originals do.  

Especially with British funding, most British backed films are done with a certain amount of ideology and enthusiasm that one British Director has done well, so can the other guys.  This isn’t always true. 

And also the plot itself doesn’t sound too originals.  So it could go completely tits up, essentially.

A positive way to see this however is regardless of how successful the movie will be, or well they execute it it’ll likely be very entertaining.  And we’re also guaranteed to see more monsters, which is always a bonus.

Ben Doran