Monday, November 21, 2005
Vin Diesel To Star In Sound of Music Sequel
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| "Captain Crunch!" Vin Diesel to star as Captain von Trapp. |
Fox officials said the sequel, The Sound of Music II: Von Trapp's Revenge, would be aimed at broadening the appeal of the classic cinema franchise.
"The Sound of Music is a very strong, very profitable brand, but, let's face it, the first movie was pretty much the chick flic to end all chick flics. This time around, we're making something that is just for the guys," said Simon Gerstein, press agent for the production company.
The plot of the sequel will involve a group of Nazi agents, led by the nefarious Rolfe, kidnapping Maria von Trapp and the five younger children in an effort to lure the captain back to the German navy. Captain von Trapp, Friedrich, Liesl and a rag-tag crew recruited from an American army prison launch a daring commando mission deep in Nazi territory to free the captured von Trapps.
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| "Liesl - sleazel!" Erica Durance has the Nazis grabbing their Lugers. |
Diesel said he is looking forward to refining the 'song-and-dance' skills he acquired in The Pacifier. The action star promises that Von Trapp's Revenge will tie up many loose ends from the first movie.
"You are finally going to get to see Captain Von Trapp beating the crap out of that little weasel Rolfe. You're going to get to see Liesl topless and you'll see battle scences that make Saving Private Ryan look lame," Diesel said.
Fans of the Baroness Ebberfeld character will also not leave disappointed, said Gerstein.
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| Angelina Jolie plays Baroness Ebberfeld, who has a score to settle with home-wrecker Maria |
Although action scenes will be more promient than in the first movie, Von Trapp's Revenge will be a musical. Gerstein said the movie will use much of the franchise's familiar music, but the songs will be set to different words and different situations.
Songs will include:
- Ideal Vise, sung by Diesel as he demonstrates various chokeholds during a hand-to-hand combat training exercise.
- I Am Sixteen, Going On Seventeen, sung by Durance in a scene set in a Berlin burlesque club as she tries to distract a group of Nazi officers.
- A Jew, A Jew, set to the tune of So Long, Farewell, sung by the entire von Trapp family as they liberate prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.
In addition to the tunes from the first movie, the soundtrack will include six new songs from 50 Cent and Black-Eyed Peas.
The current production marks the second time Fox has tried to bring the Von Trapp's Revenge script to the screen. Production was halted in the spring of 2003 when Arnold Schwarzenegger, who had originally been cast to play Captain von Trapp, dropped out to run in the California gubernatorial race.
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| "Li'l Mr. Evil" Seth Green brings his devilish charm to the role of Rolfe. |
Although Governor Schwarzenegger has sworn off feature roles while in office, he has agreed to make a cameo appearance in Von Trapp's Revenge in the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Diesel was tight-lipped about the movie's long-awaited showdown between Captain von Trapp and Rolfe.
"I don't want to give away the ending, but let's just say that Captain von Trapp finally shows Rolfe where he can put that little whistle of his," Diesel said.
Sound of Music II: Von Trapp's Revenge is slated to begin filming on location in Austria and Germany in April, 2006 with an expected release date in early 2007.
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