Today's Blind Items - The Sequel

Two decades ago there was a comedy movie that flew under the radar, but got a huge cult following over the years. It ended with an obviously fake trailer for a sequel. Though the creator of this film wasn’t serious about it at first, he began trying to make the sequel once the fan outcry got loud enough.

This guy should have had the money to do it. Given the nature of what this movie was, it wouldn’t cost much. He had his own studios away from Hollywood. He wrote and produced some of the biggest live-action comedy films and animated TV shows of their time. Then all of a sudden, he sold off all his property and practically disappeared. What happened?

A lot of what he owned came through foundations his wife and her family belonged to, and the people who controlled them - one of whom was a major real estate investor in the area he set up shop in. When the real estate mogul wanted to develop a 5-star resort on the property they owned, she saw dollar signs, divorced him, and took everything. Also around this time, the director he worked with on his biggest films had a near-fatal motorcycle accident and wasn’t the same person afterwards. The hotel was ultimately built on a different piece of land, and the former studio property is a vacant lot to this day.

He is still promising the sequel all these years later.