Bright Young Things

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's popular quote, "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." proved accurate for hipster film maker and Criterion darling Harmony Korine. He gave us Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson committing armed robberies all over Miami in their bikinis in Spring Breakers (2012), the only Harmony Korine film I've ever watched more than once.

Fast forward to today, and a sequel is in the works. Sure, that's no surprise in these money-grubbing and cynical times, but more optimistically, it heralds the long awaited return of Matthew Bright, the writer and director responsible for the highly enjoyable Freeway films, along with the unexpectedly entertaining Ted Bundy (2002). 

Bright quit films shortly after he was fired from his movie Tiptoes (2002), that starred the British actor Gary Oldman playing a dwarf. According to a web interview which might be as old as GeoCities, Bright went to live somewhere exotic and paint pictures; much like Tom Baker in The Vault of Horror (1973).

Spring Breakers 2 could be a potentially worthy sequel, given the original film had some obvious elements with Bright's Freeway movies. Therefore, it's definitely a film to keep a look out for whenever it eventually does get released.

Leave it to the Daily Mail to get Harmony Korine mixed up with Matthew Bright, along with crediting Reese Witherspoon in the wrong Freeway movie. A bit like your host intentionally getting French New Wave directors jumbled up with Star Trek characters.