http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/dick-tracy/246948/why-dick-tracy-2-never-happened
25 years later, the Dick Tracy movie was a defining summer blockbuster, yet somehow never got a sequel. And it never will. Here's why...share
I can't see a reason for it anyway. It ends on a great note. What more could they do? And I notice you wrote this on the 25th anniversary of the film coming out.
shareThey could have made a prequel. It would explain the reasons for the personal vendetta Tracey had for Big Boy. In the newspaper strip Big boy was responsible for Tess' father Emil Trueheart's death.
shareAlso, it felt like they crammed as much as they could into the one movie, just in case it was a one-off. Part of what did make it work was the element of surprise and novelty, which would've worn off by that point.
The merchandising was a little off - the film was popular, but not enough in that department.
Beatty was a bit old to have been the star anyway and they used a lot of special shots to camouflage that. By the time a sequel would've rolled out, he would be a bit older and even harder to hide.
I'd love to see another movie, without it being too campy. I also wouldn't want it to be too gritty, either. It would have to walk a mighty fine line.
shareI enjoy Dick Tracy but I honestly don't know what else they could have added with a sequel. It stands alone pretty well. I guess its possible they could have found an interesting direction for a sequel though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuqdaO0Sgg
It was a hit, but not the HUGE summer blockbuster they had hoped for. The previous summer Batman was a monster hit in theaters and with merchandise. This movie was probably hoping for the same, since it was based on a popular comic and had three incredibly huge stars. It wasn't anywhere near the box office of Batman, and I might have been the only person who bought all the action figures.
There were a lot more characters in the comics that didn't appear in the movie, and they could have made up a few more. I guarantee there would have been atleast 1 sequel if this had made the money they had hoped for.
Read the back story . There was so much developmental hell
shareJaws was production hell. Way over budget and off schedule. Could never get the shark to work right. But it made a fortune, so therefore it got 3 sequels.
Money Talks. If this movie had made closer to the money everyone thought it was going to make, it would have gotten a sequel, no matter how difficult it was to make.
Dick Tracy 2: Screenwriters Jack Epps & Jim Cash Discuss What Sequel Would've Been About
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/what-dick-tracy-2-would-have-been/
“I met with Warren,” Epps says. “I had an idea of of how to do Dick Tracy 2, which was a big jump in time like the strip. What [Dick Tracy creator] Chester Gould did as you read through it, he has big jumps in time and he mirrors the culture, he deals with the war, he deals with the ‘50s, he deals with the ‘60s.”share
The sequel would have seen a roughly ten year jump in time, featured an older Junior, and put Tracy in the midst of World War II.
“The sequel [would have been] something around munitions and war secrets,” Epps says “I probably would have gone to factories, because I was always amazed at how America turned into this armament industry. We had no weapons manufacturers before the war began, and by the end, we were a juggernaut, turning out planes in two, three days and things like that.”
To be clear, there were no plans to put Warren Beatty in uniform and send Tracy overseas to join the war effort on the frontlines. Dick Tracy 2 would have been strictly a domestic wartime affair.
“We probably would have dealt with some of that imagery of [manufacturing] plants, the size of [the war effort], and airplanes,” he says. “Not going over to Europe or anything like that, but trying to do it at home, more spy and espionage.”
Unfortunately, the villain who would have best fit the bill for Dick Tracy 2 was killed in the first few moments of the original movie.
“We blew a lot of the villains in the opening scene of Dick Tracy,” Epps acknowledges. “I know the Brow was in there, otherwise, it would have been the Brow. We just would’ve gone to Gould, because his work was so good.”
Dick Tracy was a newspaper comic strip, not a comic book. Newspaper comic strips did not get sequels. Do those newspapers that are still printing even have comic strips?
Dick Tracy is not even in the same universe as Batman.
The way I heard it Dick Tracy made money but not the super amount of money the producers were looking for. It was a successful flop, if you get my drift.
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