Pretty In Pink 2: Duckie's Revenge
That long-rumored Pretty In Pink sequel is moving forward for a release next year (link via Trent). Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, and John Cryer will star (sorry, no Diceman). I'm probably more excited about this than I should be ... blame UCB.
Despite an inferior rerecording of P-Furs' '81 classic and the inexplicable inclusion of Danny Hutton instead of Nic Kershaw (see last paragraph), John Hughes' PiP soundtrack was pretty rad. Remember, Breakfast Club had only one good song. To refresh your memory, this was the Pretty tracklist:
1. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "If You Leave"And of course there were great tunes not on the LP. Read Pretty In Pink's Top Ten Musical Moments for those.
2. Suzanne Vega w/ Joe Jackson - "Left of Center" (MP3)
3. Jesse Johnson - "Get to Know Ya"
4. INXS - "Do Wot You Do"
5. Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty in Pink"
6. New Order - "Shellshock"
7. Belouis Some - "Round, Round"
8. Danny Hutton Hitters - "Wouldn't It Be Good"
9. Echo & the Bunnymen - "Bring on the Dancing Horses"
10. The Smiths - "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
Let's hope soundtrack #2 isn't all 3 Doors Down and Lifehouse (or worse, something like this). Then again, who knows what former record store babe Andie would be listening to now? Does she even own an iPod? Share your theories in the comments.
Copy, Right?'s imagined ending had me laughing:
In the version of this movie that exists in my mind, the movie doesn't end with Andie and Blaine kissing in the parking lot. In my version, it ends about a month later when they break up because they have absolutely nothing in common. Then Andie dates Duckie a while until he comes out of the closet. Then she goes away to college and has her heart broken a million more times by people she actually had real connections with. You know, like guys in bands.And here's some trivia from IMDB:
OK, one more song:The original ending had Duckie getting the girl, but test audiences preferred Blaine. (Plus, John Hughes was concerned audiences would take the original ending as a message that poor people and rich people don't belong together.) When the actors came back to reshoot, Andrew McCarthy had lost a lot of weight and shaved his head for a play. He had to wear a wig, but is noticeably more gaunt in the end scenes.
"Goddess of Love" was the original song OMD composed for the movie but it didn't fit with the new ending.
Anthony Michael Hall turned down the role of Duckie.
Nada Surf - "If You Leave" (MP3)
Posted at 9:31 AM
I must note for the record that the ending of that movie made no sense whatsoever.
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stereogum, why do you not like the not another teen movie soundtrack?
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john hughes' last shermer illinois teen angst movie, reach the rock had an amazing soundtrack. no reason why this one wouldn't. as long there isn't some new version of pip that is.
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don't forget the fourth co-star: andie's god-awful yet simultaneously awesome homemade outfits
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EH - I know! For years, I've been struggling with Blaine's "I believed in you, you just didn't believe in me" speech. Huh???
I can't believe it's been 20 years. I'm so stoked about the sequel. But man, you just know it's going to suuuuck. :)
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bah who needs a pretty in pink sequel? out of all the john huges movies he decided to make a sequel to pretty pink? i want a sequel to uncle buck!!
oh..wait...
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"EH - I know! For years, I've been struggling with Blaine's "I believed in you, you just didn't believe in me" speech. Huh???"
He believed in her . . . how? By like blowing her off and stuff.
Andie's outfits were cool--except for that monstrosity prom dress.
Copy, Right? is spot-on! Andie totally spends at least the next four years lugging around bass amps and desperately wishing that one--one!--of her boyfriend's band's songs is about her and trying to read that into every song he writes. Eventually she'll get tired of the Tormented Rock Poet schtick and get a cool internship/job and strike out on her own and meet someone on her level with whom she can discuss New Yorker articles and go to shows at Mercury. Projecting much? You bet.
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BREASTEST SDTRK MT EVEREST!!!!
bless u Stereonizzleblizze
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So in this sequel, are they all going to be stuck in 30 something purgatory, have cubicle jobs, and hate life or what? I just think its a little late, thats all.
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Lovely - anytime you can utter the name Belouis Some with *any* kind of context qualifies as good times.
In recent years, mention of the name Jobriath in the presence of David Bowie would elicit interesting reactions; perhaps in a few years, Belouis will enjoy/suffer similar distinction. . .
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Love this soundtrack!!!
This is going to be a little weird though -- the last time I saw Molly Ringwald acting, she was prancing around in her underwear at Studio 54 in the revival of Cabaret. NOT '80s Molly at all.
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Just wanted to drop you a line and say I was thinking of this sequel a couple of years ago as a slasher movie. I posted a (dated, but good) fake soundtrack to the movie on Art of the Mix (link above) complete with a fake cover with my face in place of Duckie's. Enjoy.
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I'm new to this; I guess the link didn't carry over. Here it is: http://www.artofthemix.org/findamix/GetContents.asp?strMixid=45508&song=&artist=
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If Spader's not in it, I'm not watching it.
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At 36 and younger than most of the cast I am not so sure that this is going to play well at all.
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The PiP soundtrack is AWESOME. However, it always made me mad that the best song in the movie was not on the soundtrack: The Rave Ups "you lost it all when you lost me"
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Spader is one of the most assfaced people in film history. The fact that he has had a semi-revival on TV makes me want to shoot at least one person who says their "S's" like he does, that sloppy way that they think sounds intellectual but all it does is piss off people who say their "S's" the right way.
Keep in mind I was barely out of my mother's womb when this movie came out; it was a good saturday afternoon movie for me.
The Not Another Teen Movie soundtrack had that shitastic Marilyn Manson cover.
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the rave-ups are totally underrated! and the other band whose name i never found out who was also at the club.
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i am simultaneously psyched out of my mind and scared as hell to see what this ends up like. this (in my mind) is bigger than any sequel i can remember since AT LEAST back to the future 2.
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nice pearls!
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Wasn't there talk a while back about a made-for-TV "32 Candles"? Whatever became of that one?
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Slag -- Your name is Jim?!
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if you looked at the soundtracks for each of hughes' movies from the 80s, you would see that each of his soundtracks were oustanding compared to the rest of their ilk at the time.
anyone who has a fear that hughes won't come through again with another excellent soundtrack is a fucktard.
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Re that nada surf mp3. I had such high hopes for those guys. What happened?!
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To this day it bothers me that she didn't go with Duckie.
P.S. Molly Ringwald was hot in the (80s drama) Fresh Horses
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huh?
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Ah, yes. My bitter posts rule!
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I have to say a big ol' "AMEN!" to yr comments about the "Danny Hutton Hitters". Gads their version of "Wouldn't it Be Good" was slag on rye bread. Should have definitely been Kershaw.
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Aw, slag! You said the great "Nice Pearls" line and I hit back with the line where Benny says to Andie, "I know you! You're in my calculus class." Andie says, "Gym..." to which Benny replies, "Your name is Jim?"
Aww...I thought you would have gotten that. :(
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Where the hell is Annie Potts?
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Heh, about time they have a sequel! I love PIP. Duckie's just classic. :)
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A friend had me go get a tux so I could stand at his wedding. The place I went to, while the guy loped about his store with his tape around his neck, I spotted those same dirty white shoes Duckie wears throughout the film's entirety; they were in the same condition and laying on its back next to it was a dead
cockroach. When I took the suit back and got my deposit, I was probably tempted at some point to ask how much he wanted for the shoes, just so I could draw his attention to it. See if he'd go back, slide open the case and have his hand brush the roach that was still in there.
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Molly Ringwald was awful in "Fresh Horses." One of the worst movies. Ever.
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Are we sure this isn't a gag? There is nothing posted on IMDB under any of the actors names.
That being said, I think this movie would have done well 10 years ago...but now? Andie will end up being a single mom and will run into Duckie at a Starbucks or while buying a new CD and they will fall in love with each other blah blah...because they were supposed to end up together.
Will I go see it? Of course...if it ever gets made.
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I had the soundtrack on limited edition way-rad PINK plastic cassette...gawd, I felt so cool!
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Um. April Fools?
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ooh!! i'm so ashamed. i'm going to cry into my homemade pillowcase now.
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Wait, wait... I can see it all now:
Twenty years later, Duckie writes a book about how Andie broke his heart. While on a tour promoting it in Paris, Andie shows up. They walk around, talk about what happened (including how Andie's grandmother died and she missed her Duckie connection due to the funeral), then she pulls out a guitar and sings a Duckie song.
My girlfriend thinks the sequel is where Duckie finally comes out of the closet.
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OMD was fantastic. "if you leave" is a masterpiece. better even than "don't you want me".
pretty in what, now?
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you guys realize that some kind of wonderful is basically pretty in pink with the ending we all wanted for duckie and andy right?
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Yeah, and Some Kind of Wonderful ruined the next ten years of high school art fag's lives (that's an 80's shout-out to the Milkmen, in case anyone gets itchy from that term -- and yeah, why isn't there a Rave-Ups retro fetish? They were awesome) by presenting the lie that the world was populated by super cool and super hot band chicks just waiting for your sensitive loser ass to wake up and notice them, patiently waiting for you. I mean, it was eventually (see: Sleater-Kinney) but way after I was the age where I could ever meet them. As I think about it, back when I used to fill out Nerve profiles, I always put "Lone Star" down for best on screen sex; thanks to this, next time I'll mention the kiss between MSM and Stolz. H-O-T. Hot.
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I just heard about this link via another site. Is it pathethic for a total stranger to confess how psyched she is about this?
I thought so.
Hell, I'm doing it anyway....
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What's Hughes done that hasn't sucked in the last 20 years?
Well he wrote the Beathoven movies...
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What about the best teen movie of the 80's??
"say anything." I know its not John Hughes but I don't care. Its the best.
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I loved Pretty in Pink! I can't wait to see the sequel with my kids, who have seen the original. Great music!
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I agree with the other Michelle. Say Anything. Hands down. Best 80's flick. I loved John when I first saw it when it came out in theatres. Still love it when I chuck it in the good ol VCR. Yes, I use a VCR.
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Awesome article!!
Be well......
Mike
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say anything: overrated.
pretty in pink: stolen.
the rave ups: genius.
frankly it would have been unrealistic for andie to end up with either duckie or blaine. she would have probably settled with the dice man who would have inevitably given her the herps. ah yeah.
i still have a thing for andrew mc carthy but i always wondered what happened to him in the last scene...coke problem? oh no, it was a "wig." thanks imdb.
i think this reunion movie is a crock of shit.
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I would have put either song from the Rave Ups (Positively Lost Me, or Rave Up/Shut Up)and Talk Back's Rudy on the soundtrack. At the end of the credits, it says "in memory of Alexa Kenin (who played Andie's friend Jena) and Bruce Weintrab, who was a set designer. Does anyone know what happened to these 2?
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Alexa Kenin was shot and killed by her boyfriend in 1986, shortly after the film's release.
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How will we ever know if this is real or not?
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in the actual movie sond track they used another neworder song, thieves like us, when andie was sawing her dress and other points in the movie
anyway, a pip sequel has my attention and james creepy spader made the movie(along with jon cryer)
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I relly liked Pretty In Pink and am going to buy the DVD of it. I think it is a film what you can watch over again
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Cool boy meets girl film with the awesome tracks of the 80's...who could ask for more :)
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I may be just a character troll whose name was stolen out of a Kirkland, Washington phonebook but I'd love to see the sequel to Pretty in Pink. P.S. I REFUSE to say Angela is ugly, and I'm a character troll so there was NO move to Texas, I'm still listed in Kirkland because the person who does my character got the name out of a phone book. Bwahahaha!
Steph: If I cared about money, would I let my friends trash my parent's house?
Steph: The girl is, was, and always will be nada.
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So is this film goin to happen for sure
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Some comments
1) Say Anything overrated? Really? Overrated? Do you have a pulse!?! It's easily tied with PiP for best 80s movie, and I know this because I can never tell who I want to marry more, Duckie or Lloyd Dobler.
2) James Spader: Creepy = Sexy.
3) I've spent waaay too much of my time trying to find copies of Rave-Ups tunes.
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The movie definitely defined the eighties and molly ringwald, though she had terrible hair back then is still hot as ever if you've seen her recently. I'd like to see them all back together again.
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if they make a sequal im going to be pissed beyond pissed
i mean sure it was sentimentially cheasy but why would they ruin a classic this movie is one of my favorites and i think that if they make a sequel they all suck
suck suck
suck
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Its funny that somebody here was talking about the song Rudy from Talk Back. I've been searchig for this song for years with no results...I dont even believe this band is real..I cant find nothing....If somebody found this song or has please let me know...help :((((((
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ok wow. not every song in the movie is on the sound track. what's up with that? does anyone have a list of what was in the movie?
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The song "Rudy" was performed by Bruno Coon and his band Talk Balk. Bruno is for real and very, very talented. I first saw him in Monty's Den , San Diego State University's Bar in the early 80's. Back then he had the band "Fire". They played great renditions of Marley, specifically "Slavedriver". Later he played with the Revel Rockers, the FO MOS, and later Talk Back... They were a common act in The Belly Tavern in Solan Beach, San Diego. I talked to Bruno after one of his shows and asked him why his song was not on the Pretty and Pink Soundtrack?.... specially when he was featured playing his song in the Movie! He said they were supposed to be included, but some knucklehead decided last minute to put somebody else. Shame..... I have some of his old stuff in cassete from talk back, but not "Rudy"... In fact, I also have been trying to find "Rudy" and some of his latest music recordings... to no avail. Last I heard, he was playing quite a bit at the Temple Bar in the Santa Monica Area and doing a lot of Movie Editing.. I believe he has a song in the end of "Meet the Fockers"! If anybody has any info.. do tell.....Like Bruno would say.... Peace
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Make a sequel without the spade himself!!!!!!! a tragedy for sure,
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The spade is a legend, without him the film will be incomplete! we love the spade...
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whens it coming out?
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Talk Back is my band and if you are interested in Rudy or anything else we've done, I can assure you we were and are real.
We still play out in L.A. once in a while and the core of the band is in Meet the Fockers doing an original called "Dancing" as well as a few other tunes. Those, unlike Rudy, are available on the Meet the Fockers soundtrack.
I can probably get you a version of Rudy though not exactly what was in the movie.
Bruno
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I would definitely be interested in a copy of "Rudy" too! Is there any place we can download it/buy it??
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I would love a copy of Rudy! Is there a place we can download/buy it??
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Rudy is up at the myspace page. Come and get it.
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Does anyone happen to know the name of the song that Dukie lipsings in the record store to the two girl??????
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The song is Otis Redding's Try A Little Tenderness
and if everyone listens closely Andrew McCarthy's line is "I just didn't believe in me.." It's really soft but he's not saying you he is saying I...that makes sense too why he blew her off and stuff.
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I looked all over for the song rudy on myspace, where Bruno said it was...
Still can't find it...
HELP.... I really want the song....
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Does anyone remember that song they play while they're at that CAT's club it goes something like "two paperback books and a pine tree"?
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I put a direct link to that "rudy" song. There was one time during the movie where they're all at the club, and there's this band playing. The song was like "two paperback books and a pine tree", does anyone know where to find information on that song? possible a title or possibly an artist?
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John, It's the Rave Ups Shut Up- I had no trouble finding it on Limewire; their other song in PIP is Positively Lost Me
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Thank you so much bonnie you answered my question and now I have the complete soundtrack :) I included a link to the song in question ( called positively lost me).
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sorry I meant to thank michelle in the above post.
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bonnie? or anybody still having trouble getting Rudy from
http://www.myspace.com/headbonemusic - e me directly at talkbackcd@aol.com and I'll figure it out.
bruno
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I have a very fat pink face so this movie is very special to me. I wonder if it's special to questionmarque? She has a big, fat pink face too. Someone said she looks like a canned ham wearing a wig and that's true. My head looks like someone stuck a pigs head on a human body. questionmarque and I are perfectly matched. Too pink pork faced fatties. Heh heh.
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bri_strikes_back_9! It's me, bcp_for_real the California University Professor! How are you, my favorite Yahoo News Board Racist? I've missed you my friend! I also miss my other very good friend boons_o_rama the racist, and I miss trolling the Yahoo News Boards too. Now I can't use my trolling as an excuse when my students complain about my being fifty minutes late to class. Lazy creeps! Keep in touch, and keep up on those hateful, racist messages! I love reading them! Your good friend, blackchopperpilot
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Signore bcp_for_real, Boons is a good man. A GOOD MAN!!!!
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Poor boons, lakerfanforreal/MISTERWHITE, standing_solo/nagflow/laughing_at_idiots, and blackchopperpilot/bcp_for_real/Wendal Yankovic/Gus the hamster/Board Analyst/Dr. Phil.They were too stupid to realize that there is NO listing for a Brian Geary in Katy, Texas. I NEVER moved to Katy, Texas. I NEVER left Washington. I was Name Troll, Kalahari Koon, and Registrar of Negroes. My wife (lost girl 38/topless falcon) was questionmarque, linda brooks, bat_dallas and alex legacy etc. Remember the fake outing of our Alex character? We orchestrated that. We used the address of an insurance company and the post office. What morons! Heh heh.
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Hi yall. I just wanted to pop in and say hello. I can't stay long for two reasons. The first reason is that it would make my fake stroke story look even faker if I'm pregenant with twins, had a stroke, was under heavy sedation but then went right back to posting all day like I used to. The second reason is that my fake nurse who is like Hitler won't let me. I'm basing my fake nurse on those old, strict, starched uniform, drill sargent like nurses of the 60's and 70's sitcoms. I picture my fake nurse kind of like a cross between the strict sitcom nurse and Alice from the Brady Bunch's cousin when she took Alice's place that time. Of course, I had a fake stroke so my fake nurse isn't going to make me do calisteniks in the morning. It's so hard to keep from posting all day. It's especially hard not to post all those fake 17 course meals I pretend I make every day but iffen I was to post all day and post that I was cookin them there fancy 22 course meals that would blow my fake stroke story. Well any way. I have to go. I have a splittin headache from all this fakin a stroke. Yall take care.
{{{{{HUGZ}}}} alicornsprayer also known as grimmygoat1 and lorettagrimreaper.
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i was just wondering if anyone knew the song duckie sang to andie in the music shop
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bri_strikes_back_8 is a total nerd imposter. Oh, wait .... you used "heh heh" as a salutation, ergo you MUST be bri!!!
What a moron!!!
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James Spader will always be my favorite villian. I can't stand to see him looking so middle aged and bloated.
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I love this movie so much!!!I think all boyz should be like Blan.
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Duckie was sooo hot in the movie! He is my fave character. Molly should have gave Duckie a chance....but oh well, the cute guy always gets the girl.
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laughing at idiots is Wolfang of Antioch. How's Ebele? Does she still squat by the side of the road when she has to take a dump, or have you housebroken her? Heh. Heh. Heh.
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Me am wolfgang. Me am a retard. Me am an idiot and deserve to am be laughed at.
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Das ist a nice site. Me am likee. Me am a German man who posts as Mich the faux yellow character. Mein wife ist named Ebe. She ist das roadside squatter. Ja!
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Is there going to be a pretty in pink 2 because i really wish there was!! wanna see what happens next plz email me abck 2 let me know of the release! thanks soo much!
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Hi yalls. As regards my twins. The whole pregnatcy story was fake and I just killed the twins off because I just don't have the energy to keep up constant posts about how the babies are doin. It was just easier for me this week.
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So Tristan figurged out that I is just a troll with a fake life story. Well eff him. All the other dummies on DTT are fooled so there.
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So Tristan figurged out that I is just a troll with a fake life story. Well eff him. All the other dummies on DTT are fooled so there.
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Hi yalls. As regards my twins. The whole pregnatcy story was fake and I just killed the twins off because I just don't have the energy to keep up constant posts about how the babies are doin. It was just easier for me this way.
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Hi yalls. As regards my twins. The whole pregnatcy story was fake and I just killed the twins off because I just don't have the energy to keep up constant posts about how the babies are doin. It was just easier for me this way.
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I'm a troll too. I can't believe it too the people on the other board SO long to realize it since I was called out on the Yahoo boards as being nothing but a phoney troll long ago. Geez. You people on the other forum aint too swift!
Eff you,
Bonnie
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I'm a troll too. I can't believe it too the people on the other board SO long to realize it since I was called out on the Yahoo boards as being nothing but a phoney troll long ago. Geez. You people on the other forum aint too swift!
Eff you,
Bonnie
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I'm British. No. Really. I am. I swear.
http://www.defendingthetruth.com/conspiracy-theories/1186-faked-moon-landing.html
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Well Bonnie. It took me that long to figure out you're a troll because I have huge, slimey, veiny piss flaps and a tiny brain.
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Wow your imagined ending just depressed the hell out of me! You just ruined all the romantic '80s nostalgia. Thanks.
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how can i find this movie tell me pleas
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