Those Fletch films that started with Chevy Chase back in the 1980s have had a chequered career despite being loved by fans and the recent reboot starring Jon Hamm was not the hoped for revitalization of the franchise. So how is it looking for future Fletch films with Jon Hamm ?
Miramax-produced ‘Fletch , Confess’ was not picked up for wide theatrical release and didn’t score an SVOD premiere, instead all it could get was a very limited theatrical run and a simultaneous direct-to-PVOD release. Reviews for the film were pretty positive and most seemed content with the new Fletch film. For Jon Hamm. For Jon Hamm and director Greg Mottola it was a labour of love, with both giving up much of their salaries to finance extra days of filming.
Former Miramax executive Bill Block financed much of the film and hired Mottola to write a sequel based on”Fletch’s Fortune” with the hope being that the movie would find an audience on home platforms with time. But a new Miramax chief has put the kibosh on any future Fletch films with Jon Hamm and director Mottola has gone on to social media saying,
“The new head of Miramax, who controls the rights to all the books, shot down my sequel project. The Fletch curse got me. The gatekeepers don’t see it, but I tried […] Feature comedy is having a rough time. I was okay with the idea of it probably being a streaming movie, but I was only going to do it my way. I was told ‘the first one lost money’ – as if there had been any attempt to make money. Jon [Hamm] was very into the new script. I’ve been rather depressed about it, but hard to expect a good break in the feature world these days.”
related feature : ‘Fletch, Confess’ reviewed here
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