Thanks to a lukewarm box-office performance and a near-universal mauling from critics, it looked like Carrie Bradshaw’s reign of bad punnage was mercifully over. A recent flurry of rumours, however, suggest that those involved are reluctant to let this once-hot property go.
First, studio bosses were reported to be considering a franchise prequel which would drop the ensemble in favour of a Bradshaw-centric (oh dear God) movie and most likely adapt Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell’s latest best-seller, Summer And The City, which revolves around a 19-year old Carrie’s move from Connecticut to New York City.
With /Film recently reporting that Blake Lively, of Gossip Girl fame, had been tipped to replace Sarah Jessica Parker atop the vintage Manolo Blahniks, it seemed we were set for “SATC: The Early Years”, in which we presumably learn what happened to turn Ms. Bradshaw from bona-fide human being into a spoilt, soulless succubus. Who knows, maybe Natalie Portman died in childbirth again? According to insiders:
“There are no plans to bring SJP and the other girls back together in the old format. The prequel is about breathing new life into the story and exploring Carrie’s first few months in NYC and the beginning of her relationship with an older man.”
Although Lively has since put these rumours out to pasture, Parker has nevertheless waded in (“I was like, Wha-a-a-a-t?”) with her fears that any such prequel would create two conflicting histories, adding, ” I don’t think we can pretend to go back.” She instead proposes that the quartet returns for a third instalment, evidently to cover the multitude of storylines untouched by six seasons and two movies.
“I would go back, I think there’s one more story to tell. I know there is. I’d definitely tell that [third] story, and I know Michael [Patrick Kind] would do it right. But maybe not now. Maybe in five years, you know? It’s not that I want to get away from [SATC]. In a million years, who could get away from it it?”
I’m not sure what sounds worse: the prospect of another contrived plot that sees Bradshaw unfulfilled by her happily ever after, or the possibility of a new franchise that ditches the relatively inoffensive supporting cast and devotes even more screentime to SJP’s iconic empathy vacuum?
Source: LA Times
