{"id":173366,"date":"2021-01-21T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/shane-black-nice-guys-franchise\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:00:08","slug":"shane-blacks-the-nice-guys-shouldve-launched-a-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/shane-blacks-the-nice-guys-shouldve-launched-a-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Black’s The Nice Guys Should’ve Launched A Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the summer of 2016, Shane Black treated moviegoers to The Nice Guys<\/strong><\/em>, a slickly made, fiercely original \u201870s-set neo-noir with a pitch-black comic sensibility and two lead characters strong enough to sustain a franchise<\/a>. In the lead up to the movie\u2019s release, when Black was asked about the possibility of a sequel, he told CinemaBlend<\/a>, \u201cI think it\u2019s a little premature to consider a sequel. […] We\u2019re up against some stiff superhero competition and we just need people to, you know, maybe see Captain America<\/em> six times, but not the seventh and see us instead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, audiences did go to see Cap a seventh time. While moviegoers were flocking to see Tony Stark and Steve Rogers face off<\/a> over the Sokovia Accords, The Nice Guys<\/em> came and went without making the box office splash it deserved. When Marvel went laughing to the bank with Captain America: Civil War<\/em>\u2019s $1.1 billion global haul, The Nice Guys<\/em> placed fourth in its opening weekend (behind Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising<\/em>, which targeted a similar demographic and demanded much less from the audience), scuppering any chance of blockbuster status. In the end, Black\u2019s movie pulled in just $62.8 million<\/a> against a $50 million budget, so a sequel was no longer in the cards.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a crying shame, because The Nice Guys<\/em> was primed to launch a buddy cop franchise about a pair of mismatched private investigators taking on raunchy, violent cases in the \u201870s. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe were both individually perfect for their roles and shared impeccable on-screen chemistry. The beauty of Black\u2019s Nice Guys<\/em> script<\/a> is that it\u2019s always focused on the characters and their yin-and-yang dynamic. Gosling\u2019s Holland March is a bumbling, booze-addled P.I. whose teenage daughter takes care of him more than he takes care of her, while Crowe\u2019s Jackson Healy is a hypercompetent brute who struggles to connect with other people.<\/p>\n

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The Nice Guys<\/em> was one of the best comedies of the decade<\/a>, in a decade that saw the genre become stale with lazy efforts like Dirty Grandpa<\/em> and Holmes & Watson<\/em> in the backslide of the Apatow company\u2019s heyday. A sequel would\u2019ve undoubtedly bested a lot of the comedy sequels we were treated to this past decade: Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2<\/em>, Little Fockers<\/em>, A Bad Moms Christmas<\/em>. The ending of the movie even explicitly sets up a sequel as March meets Healy in a bar on Christmas Eve \u2013 a nod to Black\u2019s yuletide-centric filmmaking style \u2013 and shows him an ad for their new detective agency, \u201cThe Nice Guys.\u201d This effectively made the movie a big, cinematic pilot episode (in fact, the project originated as a TV pilot before being retooled for the big screen).<\/p>\n

Black previously created the Lethal Weapon<\/em> franchise, arguably the most iconic buddy cop series of all time, but he had no input in the sequels beyond an early script for Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> with a much darker tone than the eventual final cut. The Nice Guys<\/em> could\u2019ve put his sharp character work at the forefront of a long-running franchise, guiding both the standalone adventures and ongoing story threads with a singular vision much like George Lucas\u2019 Star Wars<\/em> movies<\/a>, Peter Jackson\u2019s Lord of the Rings<\/em> movies, or Patty Jenkins\u2019 Wonder Woman<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n

Gosling and Crowe\u2019s chemistry was\u00a0fun\u00a0enough to\u00a0carry another five or six movies, especially if Black\u2019s razor-sharp writing continued to balance the hilarious dichotomy of their seemingly incompatible characters as well as it did in the first one. Beyond their hysterical characterization, March and Healy also have a lot of humanity, from March\u2019s shortcomings as a single father to Healy\u2019s remorse over his past. The first movie introduced them as frenemies; it would\u2019ve been interesting to see how a sequel developed their dynamic into a bona fide B.F.F.-ship.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t enough hard R-rated franchises out there. Outside of Deadpool<\/em>, The Matrix<\/em>, and John Wick<\/em>, Hollywood doesn\u2019t have much to offer in the way of franchises for grownups. David Fincher tried to launch an adult-oriented franchise<\/a> with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>, but it underperformed at the box office and the studio ditched Fincher\u2019s sequel in favor of a reboot (which ironically bombed even harder). In a landscape of sanitized teen-skewering\u00a0actioners and family-friendly comedies, The Nice Guys<\/em> was decidedly hard-R and adult-oriented. Granted, this may have contributed to its failure at the box office, but with better marketing, it could\u2019ve been a huge hit with the 18-49 age range and audiences could have a new Nice Guys<\/em> adventure to look forward to every couple of years.<\/p>\n

In the years since The Nice Guys<\/em> hit theaters, Black has reiterated his interest in making a sequel<\/a>, saying he would make a follow-up \u201cin a heartbeat,\u201d but believes it\u2019s dead in the water since the first movie didn\u2019t make enough money: \u201cWe had all kinds of ideas [for sequels]. The problem is, it didn\u2019t do that well at the box office. I imagine it will break even, which is not a formula for reacquiring two very expensive movie stars<\/a> and proceeding with a sequel.\u201d It doesn\u2019t seem like a Nice Guys<\/em> sequel will ever get a theatrical release, but with the way Netflix and Amazon can throw money away on direct-to-streaming content, it might be economically viable to revive The Nice Guys<\/em> as a streaming franchise.<\/p>\n

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