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Rango was a box office smash when it hit screens in 2011, but there’s hasn’t been a Rango 2, and director Gore Verbinski knows why.
Time-travel adventure Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die was Gore Verbinski’s first film in 10 years, belatedly following in the footsteps of horror movie A Cure for Wellness.
But before that underrated horror gem, he directed Rango, a bizarre animated western that featured Johnny Depp as the voice of a timid chameleon who accidentally becomes sheriff of a desert town called Dirt.
In spite of solid box office and a positive critical reception – earning the film 88% on Rotten Tomatoes – there hasn’t been a Rango sequel, and with the film celebrating its 15th birthday today, we asked Verbinski why there’s been no Part 2.
Gore Verbinski says Rango 2 needs someone with a check book
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Rango grossed $246 million in cinemas, but those starling animated visuals came at a price, with the movie costing an estimated $135 million to make. And that’s before you factor in the advertising and marketing money that followed.
When we asked Verbinski about the movie, he said: “We went after the big animated movies… we were in the range of the big animated movies.”
And that price is why Verbinski hasn’t considered making Rango 2. “That’s gonna be hard,” he says of any proposed sequel. “I don’t even know how to do that, because that was such a strange, fortuitous set of circumstances. It would be hard to repeat.”
But all may not be lost, as it sounds like Verbinski isn’t totally against making a sequel. “Somebody needs to suggest that to me,” he says of Rango 2, before adding “somebody with a check book!”
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While we wait for someone to give Verbinski all that money, you can check out his thoughts on Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s most shocking scene, as well as the dangers of AI mentioned in the film.
