The Flintstones 2: Viva Rock Vegas

Genre: Comedy/Fantasy.

Studio: Universal Pictures.
Production Company: Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment.

Project Phase: In Developement.

Who's In It: Mark Addy (Fred Flintstone).
Who's Making It: Brian Levant (Director); Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., (Screenwriters); Bruce Cohen, Paul Deason, David Nicksay (Producers); Steven Spielberg (Executive Producer); Bart Brown (Co-Producer); William Sandell (Production Designer).

Premise: A young Fred and Wilma -- married for a year and living in an apartment with their puppy Dino -- head to Rock Vegas on a road trip with their new friends Barney and Betty.

Release Date: Summer 1999 (tentative.)

Comments: Unknown.

Rumors: Unknown.

Scoop Feedback:

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April 6, 1998... Instead of doing a sequel to the studio's successful 1994 big-screen The Flintstones movie, Universal has shifted gears and is now doing a prequel. Brian Levant, who helmed the original, is on board to direct again while the studio is now focusing on a cast. [Reported by 'Deadpool'; originally appeared in The Hollywood Reporter.]

Lots of CA readers are also actors and apparently have been trying out for the role of Fred Flintstone in the prequel. Even though it's more likely that a better known star would land the role (last month the L.A. Times ran a report that Drew Carey was being considered to play Fred). Still that hasn't stopped Universal from issuing a casting call in early May looking for actors to play Fred. [Thanks to 'Dino', Christian and three anonymous actors for their scoops.]

But later on, a friend of one of the actors told us "the sequel to The Flintstones was apparently dropped, according to my agent. It ran into some unspecified obstacles - one obstacle, I'm guessing, is that the first one SUCKED. She mentioned something about the script not working out or something to that effect." The project is still listed in development in the trades. [Credit 'Dino' for the scoop.]

A Universal spokesman said the film will have a different look from the original; instead of a "natural rock" setting, for instance, the prequel's Bedrock will feature glittering "gem-like" stones. [Anonymous.]

August 1, 1998... Mark Addy (The Full Monty) is attached to the picture in the role of Fred.



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