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Fifty shades of grey exlibris6/4/2023 ![]() By doing this the sequel succeed in diversifying itself from the first movie, but as CinemaBlend’s review of Book Club 2 explains, the philosophical book also made the movie a little tonally confusing. You've got lots of opportunities if you want to take them.įollowing in the footsteps of the fairly well-reviewed Book Club, the sequel on the 2023 movie schedule does take a tonal pivot by putting The Alchemist at the center of the story, and I can see why Simms felt the need to do that. It felt like this is something that people need to hear and they need to see that there are these incredible women out there the real women Diane Jane, Mary, Candice who live life, sort of like pedal to the metal as they say. We've seen a lot of people in our lives that are stopping themselves from doing things that they want to do and so it actually felt urgent. We love that message, the quote that is at the beginning of the movie. So the alchemist was something that we read. And I know it's a comedy I know it's entertaining, but we actually are trying to say something and that's really important to us. Really what drives us is the message and the theme. We didn't want to make a sequel that people would be disappointed in. We didn't want to make another we didn't want to make a sequel that was just a watered-down version of the first one. Simms continued to talk about why they decided to go with the Coelho book as the focus of the movie, saying: It’s hard to compare the two novels, because they are totally opposite in every respect, and that's part of the reason why they liked the idea. That’s when they decided to choose The Alchemist for the next movie's focus. That was a miracle how that all happened and it was incredible. ![]() She explained:Īt the very beginning, we were like, well, we're not gonna be able to find something that's like so inherently funny, like 50 Shades of Grey, so let's not even try. Erin Simms told CinemaBlend that to make a worthy sequel, she figured they needed to go in a completely new direction because they wouldn’t be able to top 50 Shades. ![]() The book is all about working to improve oneself and the importance of focusing on what really matters, in the movie’s case that’s love. In Book Club: The Next Chapter, the ladies decide to read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - talk about a tonal shift. ![]()
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