Kim Cattrall has confirmed, on a British talk show with guest host Mel B., that a Sex and the City sequel is a go. (Watch the interview here.) While the actresses finalize their deals, Slezak and I thought we’d start the brainstorming session. First our suggestions for story lines, then yours.
• Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Big (Chris Noth): Big loses his money in the current economic crisis, and Carrie’s career goes from Vogue to PopWatch a blog. They’re forced to reevaluate their priorities and discover happiness isn’t just a walk-in closet.
• Samantha (Cattrall): Her PR career takes a nosedive, and she tries to revive her fortunes through a Bravo-style reality show called PR Lady. (She also admits that she could’ve stayed in Los Angeles with Smith — and just not worked for him — because other people in Hollywood have, in fact, been known to need publicists.)
• Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Steve (David Eigenberg): Having seem them deal with marital issues in the first film, we want these two to be happy….We also want Miranda to become involved at Brady’s school, coaching soccer (even though she’s never played soccer) and facing off with other moms at PTA.
• Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Harry (Evan Handler): After extension discussion, and remembering that Charlotte kinda bores us, we decided that she needs serious drama. At first, we thought health scare, which would lead to a nice Samantha-Charlotte moment. (Samantha feeding Carrie in bed was one of my favorite moments in the first film.) But then, we thought about how underused Harry was in that movie, and we determined that he should just go ahead and die offscreen in the sequel. If you make it a random act of violence in Manhattan, you not only get Charlotte losing her hard-fought happy ending, but also all four women suddenly angry with the show’s fifth lady, New York. Imagine a sobbing Charlotte telling Samatha that unlike her, she didn’t choose to go life alone. And Samantha telling Charlotte she doesn’t have to. Tissues, please.
Your turn.
More on Sex and the City:
Owen Gleiberman’s review of the movie
Sex and the City: Rating the men
Secrets from the (first) movie set
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EW’s Sex and the City Movie Central
How about a crazy plot twist where all 4 women, grow up, quit whining, and eat a frickin’ cheeseburger?
How about they all die in an airplane crash so they can’t make any more pathetic sequels!
Am I the only one that HATED the movie? I loved the series but the movie ruined it for me.
To Honey: Completely agree! The series was maybe not for everyone taste, but was clever, funny, witty, real, emotional…all of those things that the movie was not!!
-The ladies go to Europe or something. Running around France or Italy.
-Or we toss ‘em on a farm and take away all their money!
-Or they crossover with Desperate Housewives!
-Or Big turns out to be a serial killer! On of em dies!
I couldn’t get past the movie either – what a bunch of inconsiderate whiners…I guess this worked when they were 30, but at 40, you’d think they would have grown the hell up and learned to LISTEN to their partners…I guess I don’t really care what the girls do in the next movie cause I can’t bear to watch it…
I liked the movie, despite it’s obvious flaws, but they should just STOP. Don’t keep reviving these women until you completely mess it up and our memories of them. That said, if they do go forward, they should definitely kill Harry. The best parts of the movie were when the women suffered, sorry to say.
I’m down for anything, as long as the movie isn’t A)BORING and B)Carrie and Big don’t have any serious marital problems (like divorce).
Harry does not need to die. Why can’t someone just get robbed or harrassed? And haven’t Samantha and Big gone through enough relationship problems? I agree with other comments. Just STOP with the sequel. I loved that ending.
How about Will Smith mistakes all four of them for the violent, virus-ridden zombies and goes after them in a Mustang? At least it would exciting.
I loved the series and the movie…except for the last 15 minutes, which wrapped things up a bit too tidily for me. But for that very reason, I think a sequel is a bad idea. The story is over; leave us with our DVDs and fond memories instead of risking the quality and legacy of a fantastic franchise.
I WILL PAY THEM $5 NOT TO MAKE IT.
All four ladies get marooned on a desert island and have to eat each other. After all, the writers pretty much cannibalized everything that was good about the TV show and sh!tted it out into the script.
Why are they even making a sequel? Enough is enough!
Carrie finally undergoes surgery to have that horseface removed.
agree with funkymono