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I submitted a script for 'Cocoon 3', but got rejected, with the producers saying it contained too much sex and violence.
But I hardly think it contained gratuitous violence by today's standards.
In my version, 'Coccon 3 - Harsh Twilight', the former residents return from space to the nursing home to even some scores, and dole out a little street justice, geriatric style.
But the studio questioned the plausibillity of Jean Stapleton and Don Ameche stalking orderlies with butcher knives and AK 47s, though I pointed out that just because people are old doesn't mean they aren't merciless, given a good enough reason.
Which is provided early on in the script in a flashback which has an orderly raping Jessica Tandy, saying he's going to make her like it, followed by a scene with her whispering his name softly, adding complexity to the relationships, but ultimately setting up the need for bloodshed and the resulting carnage when they return from space and ultimately go ape shit on the nursing home staff.
And I don't think a Soft Core/Action movie version of Cocoon strays far from the original, which was really nothing more than Ron Howard's excuse to get Jessica Tandy in a bathing suit. So lets not pretend the original was any less purille or titilating.
Of course a lot of the original cast have passed away, but I'm sure they could have found suitable replacements, though it's hard to imagine anything better than Jessica Tandy opening up a can of whup ass and delivering some retribution old skool, with a blow torch and a tire iron screaming, "HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS FUCKHEAD!!!".
But I hardly think it contained gratuitous violence by today's standards.
In my version, 'Coccon 3 - Harsh Twilight', the former residents return from space to the nursing home to even some scores, and dole out a little street justice, geriatric style.
But the studio questioned the plausibillity of Jean Stapleton and Don Ameche stalking orderlies with butcher knives and AK 47s, though I pointed out that just because people are old doesn't mean they aren't merciless, given a good enough reason.
Which is provided early on in the script in a flashback which has an orderly raping Jessica Tandy, saying he's going to make her like it, followed by a scene with her whispering his name softly, adding complexity to the relationships, but ultimately setting up the need for bloodshed and the resulting carnage when they return from space and ultimately go ape shit on the nursing home staff.
And I don't think a Soft Core/Action movie version of Cocoon strays far from the original, which was really nothing more than Ron Howard's excuse to get Jessica Tandy in a bathing suit. So lets not pretend the original was any less purille or titilating.
Of course a lot of the original cast have passed away, but I'm sure they could have found suitable replacements, though it's hard to imagine anything better than Jessica Tandy opening up a can of whup ass and delivering some retribution old skool, with a blow torch and a tire iron screaming, "HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS FUCKHEAD!!!".