Richard Linkalater attended a screening of “Dazed & Confused” last night in Austin hosted in support of mayoral candidate Brewster McCraken.
According to a poorly-worded Chud report (sent in by an audience member in attendance), Linklater talked about what was next for him and evidently that’s a “spiritual sequel,” to “Dazed & Confused.”
According to Chud’s report, “[Linklater] is shooting in and around Austin this summer, will be about the first weekend of college in 1980. So while thematically it’ll bookend Dazed, it won’t have any of the same characters.”
This isn’t the first time Linkater has talked about a sequel to this ’70s-set summer classic (here’s one example from 2007), but it looks like it’s finally moving forward. Hopefully more details will emerge soon. And while we’re skeptical of him going back to the well that made him famous more than 15 years later, it’s surely can’t be any worse than, “Me & Orson Welles,” a Movie-of-the-Week-like 2008 picture he made that still hasn’t been picked up for distribution yet.