On the basis of this trailer it would seem that Alex Cox's Repo Chick is less a sequel to his well-aged cult fave Repo Man as it is a strange, post-modern collage that simply uses the Repo connection as one more reference point in a tangled constellation. It also seems to be an openly disagreeable…
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Last night at the Venice Film Festival, the spiritual sequel to writer/director Alex Cox's punk rock, sci-fi cult classic Repo Man, Repo Chick, premiered. Co-produced by David Lynch, the film has loomed with some hesitation in the minds of fans as an oddity, because it was shot almost entirely on green screen using RED cameras and…
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Yesterday in Page 2 I mentioned that the title of Universal's Repossession Mambo had been changed to Repo Men, and wondered if fans of Alex Cox's awesome Repo Man might be a little irritated. Being in a bit of a rush to put that page together, I didn't think about how Alex Cox might feel.…
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Alex Cox's Repo Man sequel Repo Chick is finally going into production next month (January 2009). Production Weekly reports that David Lynch is producing the project. The original 1984 film told the story of Otto, a newly hired repossession man who goes in search for a mysterious Malibu carrying a high value package which was…
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