It’s a light, fluffy comedy with no need for a part two. But this hasn’t stopped Gondry from concocting another hair-brained idea to revisit the bumbling half-wits of his DIY paean.
And don’t worry about spoilers if you haven’t seen “Be Kind Rewind” yet, there is no real plot that that film.
Speaking to MTV, Gondry rattled off his new idea – supposedly titled “Rewound” – and sounds like he made it up on the spot or five minutes before the interview.
The “plot” revolves around the five main characters – Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow and Melonie Diaz – and taking the community theme of the film to a new level of open-source socialism and free exchange, plus some good old racism to boot.
“What happens is that they decide to take over City Hall,” Gondry explained. “So it’s sort of a socialist collaborative system. They open a restaurant with free food, they refuse to send money to the war, and they get more [jobs] for people. Everything goes very well.”
The kooky French director also added that Glover and Farrow and Def and Diaz would be all shacked up leaving Jack Black’s already deeply retarded character lonely and depressed so he buys himself a dog.
But since it’s a a Michel Gondry movie, the “plot” then goes off the rails. “Unfortunately, Danny Glover wakes up with a sort of a pain in his brain. He becomes super racist, calls Jerry a dirty [ethnic slur] and asks him to leave the video store. He blames the Polish for having brought the African-Americans [into] accepting the lowest wage jobs. It’s terrible, frenzied, racism.”
There’s no way to really explain this aside from Gondry’s own words. “It gets worse and worse and at the end there is a [race] war that’s starting,” he told MTV. “Basically, segregation is reinstalled. Mike [Mos Def] is leading the African-American community, and [Diaz] the Hispanic community, and Jack is leading the Polish community and they start to fight in a horrible fight.”
From their the all out war results in the death of Black’s aforementioned pooch, and everyone is so upset the fighting ceases. “It turns out that Danny had a brain tumor that was benign and so that’s why he became racist. Everything restarts and goes back to normal.”
Ta daaaaaa! Worst. Story Idea. Ever. Ok, there’s a possibility that Gondry is pulling their chain, but apparently it’s just a quick, short idea he wanted to film on the extreme-cheap at Sundance while the cast was there, but he couldn’t pull it together because of time constraints (thank god).
“I wanted to do the sequel in one hour because we had all the cast together, but some arrived too late or too early.” Ok, so it sounds like it’ll never happen, but geez, could that be any more tossed off?
Someone stop this man, now. Think about it. He wants to also make a movie about kids who invent water that makes you hear music when you drink it. Something tell us that Gondry’s artist residency at MIT did some permanent damage to his brain. Maybe he sat too close to a radiation experiment or something (Whoa, we smell another film!)