Get ready to dive back into the punk rock sci-fi wasteland of 1984’s Repo Man — a sequel, titled Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer, has been announced, with the original writer and director, Alex Cox, set to return.
The story was first reported by Variety, who confirmed that Cox would be in the director’s chair, with Kiowa Gordon (Twilight) starring as the punk-turned-repo-man, Otto, portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the original. Plot-wise, the new film will pick up right where the original left off, following Otto after a brief trip “across the infinities of time and space,” which has only aged him “exactly 90 minutes.”
According to filmmakers, Repo Man 2 will “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.”
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Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer will be produced by Lorenzo O’Brien (Narcos) with Buffalo 8 Productions’ Adam Harris Engelhard, Matthew Helderman, and Luke Taylor. Michael Mortensen and Ram Getz from GM Management will executive produce. In a statement, Engelhard said: “Growing up, Repo Man was one of my favorite films, so to get an opportunity to work on the sequel with everyone involved is incredibly exciting.”
The sequel was announced this week at the Berlin Film Festival. In the ‘90s, Cox attempted to make a sequel with Willem Dafoe and the original’s Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, but the story never came into fruition as a film, and was instead ultimately used for the graphic novel Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday. In 2009, Cox wrote and directed another entry in the Repo Man universe, Repo Chick.
Named by Consequence — and punk rock bands themselves — as a film that actually got punk right, we highlighted Repo Man as one of the best vehicles for punk in cinematic history.
