"Spiritual" sequel to Dazed and Confused in the works

[Watson]

Last night our spy, who goes by the super secret spy name Eric, was at a screening of Dazed & Confused held to support Austin mayoral candidate Brewster McCraken, who you have to get behind just for his name. Richard Linklater was in the house, and at the Q&A after the movie he talked a little bit about what's coming next for him. And that would be 'a sort of spiritual sequel' to Dazed.

The film, which Linklater will shoot in and around Austin, Texas this summer, follows kids during their first weekend at college in 1980. No, it won't feature the same actors or characters from Dazed and Confused (because they're all much older now and kinda don't pass as college students), but because Dazed was about the last day of high school and this will be about the first day of college, the latter will make for a great companion piece to the former and the two together will (we hope) one day make for one helluva double bill. Knowing Dazed and Linklater, the soundtrack will be hot and the awkward teen randomness will be plentiful. It's early still, but this just shot up toward the top of my anticipation meter -- what about you?

http://www.cinematical.com/2009/03/27/unofficial-dazed-and-confused-sequel-filming-this-summer/

http://chud.com/articles/articles/18720/1/RICHARD-LINKLATER-IS-STILL-DAZED-AND-CONFUSED/Page1.html

YAY! I love the idea of this film. Very cool

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Cool. It's not a direct sequal, but it follows that formula that DandC had. So I'm all up for it, I like his films and what he does.