Con Air 2 Was Supposed To Be In Space
Con Air 2? Can we actually make this happen at some point. For those of you who don’t share our over-the-top, unapologetic, wildly irrational love for Con Air and are already groaning just from reading the headline, don’t worry; this isn’t something that is likely to happen at this point. Though now that it’s on the table, I really, really want it to.
As much as we would love to see Con Air 2 happen in space, no one is actively planning it at the moment. But there had been some rumblings about such a thing over the years, and the idea of heading to space came up.
How did this Con Air 2 subject even come up, you might ask? See, we aren’t the only one who loves Con Air and star Nicolas Cage’s long, greasy mullet and Forrest Gump-with-a-bad-attitude southern drawl. Since the movie was a decent enough hit in 1997, there has always been talk of a sequel. It obviously never materialized, but the talks have been there.
While discussing his efforts to crowdfund an action-comedy called Salty, Screen Daily asked Con Air director Simon West in 2014 about the possibility of the Con Air 2 we kept hearing about.
You know, West probably answers this question quite often. He said about a Con Air 2, “I would do it if it was completely turned on its head. Con Air in space, for example – a studio version where they’re all robots or the convicts are reanimated as super-convicts, or where the good guys are bad guys and the bad guys are good guys. Something shocking. If it was clever writing it could work.”
Con Air 2 in space sounds like something you would see as part of a weekend-long marathon on Syfy, sandwiched between Eyeborgs and Star Runners. Also, we already have Lockout, which, though it is more Escape From New York in space, is also a little Con Air in space.
Again, I want to reiterate that this is West talking off the cuff and pulling a snarky answer out of his ass. Con Air 2 was not at risk of happening in the short term.
But if you believe for one second that we are not going to spend the rest of the day imagining Nic Cage’s Cameron Poe wrapped in a space suit, battling robots, trying to find a way back to Earth and his little girl, all while saving the day because that’s just the kind of guy he is, well, you’d be wrong.
That’s exactly how I plan to spend the remainder of my afternoon. I’m also going to start writing Con Air fan fiction, and it’s all going to be set in space.
As far as a straight Con Air 2, it’s still entirely possible. Sure, the first one came out decades years ago, but that’s never stopped Hollywood from making an ill-advised movie before.
