Alexandre Aja, a successful career in Hollywood
Alexandre Aja made his name directing the horror film High voltage (2003). His second feature film was not a great success (only 110,000 spectators in France), but it attracted the attention of genre film fans. But also from Hollywood. The French filmmaker continues like this The hill has eyes (2006)remake of the 1977 Wes Craven film. The film grossed more than $70 million worldwide and allowed Alexandre Aja to continue his American career. Thus followed Mirrors (2008) with Kiefer Sutherland and Piranhas 3D (2010) the fourth part of the saga started by Joe Dante in 1978. While these three films all had a sequel, Alexandre Aja did not direct any.
However, more than once, the director thought about returning to one of his works, wondering each time if he could do better than the previous film. He would still think about staging his vision today The colony with eyes 2as he told us during the promotion of his latest feature film, Homeland (in theaters from September 25th).
The idea of a sequel is present quite systematically. When The Hill Has Eyes came out, we had a sequel in mind, with a complete presentation. In the end, another proposal was proposed and made. I decided not to do it because I didn’t like this story very much. But it is true that today I am still evaluating the idea of possibly returning to La Colline with the sequel that we had thought of a few years ago.
The Weinsteins’ Bad Move for Piranhas 3D
As for the other suites, that of Mirror it was done”without him realizing it“. While for Piranhas 3DAlexandre Aja had a very precise idea of what he wanted to do for a second work. The director was unfortunately bypassed by the production company Dimension Films, a subsidiary of The Weinstein Company, which, according to the director, gave birth to”a piece of shit“.
Dimension and the Weinsteins tried to pull off a heist by doing… I don’t even know how to describe it. It was a no-go and it hurts the movie we made. So it’s a shame.
A success for Alexandre Aja, but not for the future
With Piranhas 3Dproposed by Alexandre Aja a fun and uninhibited horror comedywhich sees the town of Lake Victoria in Arizona confront hundreds of prehistoric piranhas released from an underwater cave in the middle of the Spring Break. While the shooting of the film had gone quite well for the director, the editing had been more tense under the pressure of the Weinsteins. The feature film was nevertheless very profitable as it grossed more than $83 million in revenue for an estimated budget of $24 million.
As for what comes next, Piranhas 2 3DThe failure was impressive as it only grossed $8 million. The losses were minimal however as the feature film cost only $5 million to make. In France, Piranhas 2 3D It wasn’t even released in theaters, only on video two years later. Finally, Alexandre Aja should finally direct the sequel to one of his films, with Crawl 2, currently in preparation.
Source: Cine Serie
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