A "Once" sequel?

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There's reason to half-believe that Once (Fox Searchlight, 5.18), a curiously intoxicating date movie, might catch on. A suggested copy line -- "If you can't get laid after seeing Once with someone you're after, you can't get laid" -- is one reason. Whatever the odds of this happening (a decent box-office haul, that is), it seems that director John Carney is planning on some kind of spirited reception.

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova in Once

A friend who spoke with him in L.A. after a recent press screening says he intends to shoot a sequel about the continuing romantic travails of Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's characters. Call it a kind of nod to Richard Linklater's decision to shoot Before Sunset as a completion of Before Sunrise.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 31, 2007 at 8:54 PM

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Noah says ...

It's Before Sunset. After the Sunset was that awful Brett Ratner flick with Pierce Brosnan and Woody Harrelson.

Posted by Noah at March 31, 2007 9:51 PM

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D.Z. says ...

If you can't get laid from seeing "Once", it's probably due to the fact that no one's heard of it or seen any ads for it.

Posted by D.Z. at March 31, 2007 9:56 PM

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gruver1 says ...

Wells to Noah: No, I checked...it's "The Day Before The Next Day's Sunset."

Posted by gruver1 at March 31, 2007 10:21 PM

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Hallick says ...

"A suggested copy line -- "If you can't get laid after seeing Once with someone you're after, you can't get laid" -- is one reason."

I think I saw the same thing during an ad for "300" on LOGO last night. Small world.

Posted by Hallick at March 31, 2007 11:03 PM

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EDouglas says ...

Not sure if you heard, Jeff, but someone's contesting the title "Once" with the MPAA and the movie may be looking for another title. I was told that until it's settled, the movie is being referred to as "The Untitled John Carney Project."

Posted by EDouglas at April 1, 2007 2:00 AM

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Hallick says ...

"I was told that until it's settled, the movie is being referred to as "The Untitled John Carney Project."

"If you can't get laid after seeing The Untitled John Carney Project with someone you're after, you can't get laid" sounds totally fine to me.

Posted by Hallick at April 1, 2007 2:26 AM

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EDouglas says ...

If you can get a girl to go see a movie called "Untitled John Carney Project" with you, she's probably easy and will go out with anyone, so yeah, even odds there. :)

Posted by EDouglas at April 1, 2007 3:10 AM

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thevisceral says ...

If they don't let him call the movie "Once," it will screw up his plan to call the sequel "Twice."

Posted by thevisceral at April 1, 2007 6:49 AM

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rgmax99 says ...

"If they don't let him call the movie 'Once,' it will screw up his plan to call the sequel 'Twice.'"

You're right thevisceral. And don't forget, if the sequel to "Twice" is made, then that will screw up the name to THAT film's planned sequel -- "Three Times a Lady."

Posted by rgmax99 at April 1, 2007 7:25 AM

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bipedalist says ...

"You're right thevisceral. And don't forget, if the sequel to "Twice" is made, then that will screw up the name to THAT film's planned sequel -- "Three Times a Lady."

ahaha. Best joke ever.

Posted by bipedalist at April 1, 2007 7:42 AM

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tholl-yung says ...

Call it by a line from one of the songs and leak them to radio stations. Your date will be even more unnerved and predisposed.

Posted by tholl-yung at April 1, 2007 9:56 AM

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gruver1 says ...

Wells to Douglas: The legal title problem has been cleared up and the movie will definitely be called "Once" -- the Fox Searchlight people told me this directly early last week. My choice for the title of the sequel is "Once Again."

Posted by gruver1 at April 1, 2007 10:22 AM

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DarthCorleone says ...

Unfortunately, I already went to Cairns, Australia, enticed by the promise of the Lonely Planet guide: "If you can't get lucky there, you can't get lucky anywhere."

I have since come to the conclusion that I can't get lucky anywhere. So, clever tagline, but it has no effect on me.

Posted by DarthCorleone at April 1, 2007 2:35 PM

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NYCritic says ...

I really hope that John Carney reconsiders. This is a very bittersweet movie (with a killer soundtrack) and it should be left alone. If he wants to reteam the performers, maybe he should think up a new scenario.

BTW, my one gripe is that almost none of the songs will be eligible for awards this year since they weren't written for this film. A couple were written for a Czech film, some are on the album The Sweet Season which Hansard and Irglova recorded together and there's overlap with the Frames latest album too. (Hansard is the group's lead singer.) I've been haunted by "Falling Slowly" since I first heard it on this site and after seeing the film.

Posted by NYCritic at April 1, 2007 2:51 PM

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