Unless it has the possibility of being a multi-million dollar mega franchise studio turnover at the top tends to lead to trashing all the mid-level projects that are in the works and while fans enjoyed the first Italian Job remake and a sequel tentatively titled The Brazilian Job has always been talked about, Seth Green tells Entertainment Weekly you may as well stop talking about it.
“That’s been listed as ‘In Production’ for over four years, and maybe you’ll print this and someone will actually stop saying that!” he says. “There are a couple of scripts that have been written, but in the last six years since we made the movie, Paramount’s hierarchy has changed hands four times and it’s never seemed to be a priority for the studio to make the movie.” With the success of the film’s cast (Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron have been nominated for Oscars, Mos Def for an Emmy, and Jason Statham hit big with his Transporter series), says Green, “You would think that they would make the movie. There’s enough of a fan outcry for it, but we just haven’t been able to get the studio to greenlight it.”
