News > Crank 2 Details (Spoilers for Crank 1)

Written by David Morgan

Several months ago Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor announced that they were going to be writing and directing a sequel to their energetic action flick Crank. People kind of chuckled and said, "Okay. Whatever guys. It can come out the weekend after Reservoir Dogs 2." But somehow it's really going through. We learned via Cinematical that Neveldine did an interview with Empire in which he spilled some details. Firstly, the film will be a true sequel rather than a prequel. There will be no twin brother to replace Statham's deceased Chev Chelios character (as we had previously heard). The first film was not a dream sequence and neither is this. In Mr. Neveldine's words:

We came up with an idea, we wrote the script, and after the studio read it they couldn't believe that we pulled it off. And of course, the best test was giving it to Jason and Jason turned down every other project so he could do this, start this in the spring of next year. He was so excited, he couldn't believe it!

You have to go twice as hard. So that's what we're going to do. If we're going to live up to the first one with the sequel – we're taking it WAY past the point of the first one.

It'll be interesting to see how they "pulled it off."