There's a lot of love for Richard Stanley's sci fi horror Hardware. Since around 1996 Stanley has talked off and on about a sequel to the film. Stanley has gone and made his latest draft of the script available online. Makes sense. Create word of mouth. Drum up interest. I haven't started it yet but I didn't want to wait until I had read it and deny you the time without it. I care. And so do the lads at QuietEarth for pointing this out!
The Mark-13's are in mass production. The US government is employing them to patrol the US-Mexican border and deal with illegal aliens. Shades returns to Earth after a series of space flight assignments. Feeling alone in the world, he decides to seek out Jill, who's now living in a hippie colony in Splendora, Texas.
The colony consists of "destructuralists," who beseech the human race to abandon all technology and re-unite with nature. As Shades and his newly-found companion, battle-scarred vet Lyle Maddox arrive to Splendora, they find Jill earnestly believing in the cause, but even she is oblivious to what ultimately lies beneath the peaceful colony. Something big enough to attract a phalanx of Mark-13 droids as well as a Mexican guerrilla leader, who thinks he's channeling the spirit of Emilio Zapata...
The Mark-13's are in mass production. The US government is employing them to patrol the US-Mexican border and deal with illegal aliens. Shades returns to Earth after a series of space flight assignments. Feeling alone in the world, he decides to seek out Jill, who's now living in a hippie colony in Splendora, Texas.
The colony consists of "destructuralists," who beseech the human race to abandon all technology and re-unite with nature. As Shades and his newly-found companion, battle-scarred vet Lyle Maddox arrive to Splendora, they find Jill earnestly believing in the cause, but even she is oblivious to what ultimately lies beneath the peaceful colony. Something big enough to attract a phalanx of Mark-13 droids as well as a Mexican guerrilla leader, who thinks he's channeling the spirit of Emilio Zapata...
I'm scared to read the script. I LOVE Richard Stanley. I must have watched the Hardware dvd 5 time since I bought it in October. I held 3 screenings of Dust Devil back in Philadelphia. But man, his screenplays aren't very good. He's an amazing director and visual artist but not the best writer. The scripts for Dust Devil & Hardware are kind crappy, they don't convey his vision well at all. Richard's description of Hardware 2 on the Hardware SE dvd is awful. Still, even though I don't want to read it, I'd love to seem him make it. And since I'm writing under a pseudonym right now, I just want to vent a little. Harry Knowles hates Hardware... WFT?!!! What kind of nerd is Harry? I don't understand how a film junkie like him can hate Hardware, it's fucking awesome! Ugh. But he creamed his pants on G.I. Joe.... sigh.
thanks for the link. it'll be worth a read since, given his run of luck, who really knows when the next Richard Stanley film is realized and on screen for all to see?
R.I.P. Dan O'Bannon,
thanks for Dark Star, Alien, ROTLD, Dead and Buried, Total Recall, Screamers (underrated!), Lifeforce and the coolest segment from the Heavy Metal movie, B-17...
what a legend...