DARK ANGEL 2 / I COME IN PEACE 2 (1995-2018?) (unproduced)
Posted: 02 Nov 2015, 15:20
Here is what I wrote about the aborted sequel in my booklet for the DARK ANGEL German/Austrian blu-ray (NSM Records):
THE UNPRODUCED SEQUEL
There have been several attempts to do a sequel over the years and it seems a lot of the fans have asked for it. Craig R. Baxley was even called to do it when he was making Stephen King’s Storm of the Century in the late nineties, but that ended there when they told him the budget would only be $3 million. The rights were also entangled with numerous entities so it has never come to be. Dolph Lundgren was not to be involved and it's very likely Lundgren had turned them down for a sequel, as he did with the aborted Masters Of The Universe 2, and the unrelated Red Scorpion 2.
In 1995-96, the former C.E.O. of Dino De Laurentiis’ company Stephen Greenwald set up his own production house/venture and secured the rights to the original. Greenwald hired Harv Zimmel (Shoot To Kill), a friend of Jonathan Tydor to write a script for a sequel… with new characters. Zimmel tells that “it took place in a small seaside California town and the protagonist was to be a dried up, washed up, about- to-be-fired city detective who is assigned to look into the disappearances of a number of prostitutes and homeless persons. Although it seemed to be a thankless, dead end assignment, the veteran cop finally figures out what is going on with the help of a beautiful (but extremely "strange") policewoman who claims to be working for Interpol... It turns out that she too is an alien who has come to earth seeking the capture of one of her kind (also a beautiful but evil alien)...”, said Zimmel. Although the company was very pleased with the script that Zimmel wrote, nothing came of it as they could not raise the money for the production.
In summer 1996, French magazine Mad Movies reported that Brigitte Nielsen was attached, with Matthias Hues as well. Other attempts have been made. Hues tried to get it off the ground himself with MGM (which inherited the Orion Pictures catalog, part of which Dark Angel became when Moshe Diamant & Sarlui's Vision International folded). The former German athlete even tried to develop a video game sequel in the early 2000s.
- Excerpt from booklet liner notes "The Making of DARK ANGEL" by Jérémie Damoiseau, Blu-ray/DVD, NSM Records, 2014