Prequel Quotes

You`ve got to move on and it`s a shame because there`s a part of you that thinks, `I was so attached to that movie and it`s success and what it meant to me.` There`s a part of you that wants to pull that off again. I heard some back room chatter about another 300 movie. I don`t know if it would be a sequel or a prequel but I haven`t read anything. I can`t see it myself, the idea in general. I`m not sure which way they would go with that. When Russell Crowe did Gladiator he didn`t come back and do another one. Like mine, his character died.

(When asked what he thought of Batman Begins before its release): My prediction, I don`t know anything about it, but I feel this way about it. It`s gonna be good, because he`s a really good actor, and that`s a really good director. And they`ve had years and years and years, and hundreds of millions of dollars, or at least tens of millions of dollars to figure it out. I say it`s gonna be good. I picture it`s gonna be good. And also, I swear to God it`s not an "I told you so", it`s maybe an interesting thing, that when I didn`t like the third script... I just said "I really don`t like this, and I don`t want to do it" cause what I wanted to do, is what I`m told and I don`t know if this is true yet so don`t hold me to this until I see it, but I`m told it`s more a prequel. And that was what I thought would`ve been a hip way to go the third time. This guy is so endlessly fascinating potentially, why not go and see how he got there.

From the very very beginning, when everyone thought it was crazy, I was thinking of The Chronicles of Riddick as a trilogy. That would start with the movie you saw, and Pitch Black would act as a prequel that introduced you to the character. So in simple terms, in Chronicles 2 we venture to the Underverse. We knew we could get away with a PG-13 on the first one, but once you go to the Underverse it`s rated R, because it`s a place where war is the norm and there is constant, constant battling. Then on Chronicles 3 we will see Riddick return to Furia, to deal with the homeland.

Part of the reason I went back to tell the prequel, of how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, is that it`s an interesting story and a fun one to tell. Because it is the story of how a good person turns bad.

I am thrilled to have Kevin Smith as both an actor in Southland Tales as well as having his involvement in the prequel graphic novels for Southland Tales. The novels will give the die-hard fans more of an understanding of the back-story leading up the film`s theatrical release.

The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn`t know that when we began the process.