While Harmony Korine is a popular cult favorite director, his taste and subject matter aren’t for everybody. For me, his best movie was his most mainstream, 2012’s candy-coated fever dream Spring Breakers, a film that reveled in adding a bit of corruption to then fresh-faced stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens. Well, because nothing stays dead forever, a sequel titled Spring Breakers: Salvation Mountain is officially a go. Don’t get too excited about it, though.
The Spring Breakers sequel has the same producers as the original movie, which starred Gomez, Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as rowdy college girls on a wild spring break in Florida where they connect with a dangerous rapper/drug dealer named Alien, played by James Franco. None of the names I just mentioned are in the new film, and Harmony Korine isn’t involved, either.
So who’s starring in it then? Bella Thorne (Assassination Nation), for one, joined by Ariel Martin (Zombies 2), Grace Van Dien (The Binge) and True Whitaker (Godfather of Harlem). They play four rebellious girls who hit the road for spring break, only to have to outrun the chaos they created. The film is being described as “a bold new ride for Gen Z.”
Behind the camera is director Matthew Bright, a veteran who directed the Reese Witherspoon/Kiefer Sutherland thriller Freeway back in 1998.
This isn’t the first attempt at a Spring Breakers sequel. Back in 2014, a version featuring Christian extremists was in the works from director Jonas Ackerlund and writer Irvine Welsh but it never got off the ground. [Variety]
