Repo Man, the 1984 punk rock sci-fi cult classic, turns 40 this year, and Variety reports that it’s getting a direct sequel from original writer-director Alex Cox. The new film, titled Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer, was announced during this week’s Berlin Film Festival, and apparently picks up immediately where the original Repo Man left off.
While a sequel, the original roles played by Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton have been recast. Kiowa Gordon, who played Embry Call in the Twilight movies, will star as misanthrope punk Otto. According to Variety, Repo Man 2 “picks up after Otto has boarded his trusty 1967 Chevy Malibu to journey across the infinities of time and space. In that time he has aged exactly 90 minutes.” Producers also say the sequel promises to “deliver an enthralling mix of punk energy, existential comedy, and unconventional storytelling, navigating the absurd and chaotic world of repo men into a new age of nuclear brinkmanship and driverless cars.”
This is far from Cox’s first revisit to the Repo Man world. He tried to make a sequel in the ’90s, starring Estevez, Stanton and Willem DaFoe; it never quite happened, but Cox turned the story into the graphic novel “quasi sequel” Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday. Cox also wrote and directed 2009 film Repo Chick which was not a sequel, per se, but set in the same universe as Repo Man.
The life of a repo man is always intense! Watch the trailer for the original film, and listen to the soundtrack (featuring Iggy Pop, Circle Jerks and more), below.
