Vernon Wells has hinted that he may star in a ‘Commando’ prequel.
The 74-year-old actor performed mercenary Captain Bennett within the 1985 motion movie – which additionally featured Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Matrix – and has teased he may return to the position in an origin story.
Vernon admits that he has heard rumours a couple of doable prequel movie being in improvement, and expressed his aid that the unique film is not being remade.
In an interview with Simon Thompson for Forbes, Vernon defined: ”Somebody within the enterprise mentioned to me some time in the past that they are considering of doing one other ‘Commando’.
”I assumed they meant a reboot, so I used to be like, ‘They cannot redo ‘Commando’. It’s a traditional. It’s so kitsch.’ But they mentioned they don’t seem to be planning on redoing it, they’re considering of doing a prequel and placing me in it. That would work.
”They had been considering of doing the prequel about the place it began, how the connection soured between us, how I turned the villain and the way Arnie’s character Matrix turned the nice man. Rumours are flying round on a regular basis, but it surely was fascinating that somebody was severely speaking about it.”
Captain Bennett was seemingly killed by Arnie’s character, Colonel John Matrix, on the finish of ‘Commando’ however Vernon has urged that he may nonetheless be alive.
He mentioned: ”We do not know for positive that Bennett died. He won’t have.”
Vernon additionally expressed a need to return to the ‘Mad Max’ franchise after having performed Wez in ‘Mad Max 2’, though creator George Miller refused as he felt Vernon could be too recognisable to followers.
He defined: ”I’d like to do a component in one of many two Mad Max motion pictures he is written. I spoke to George about it, and he mentioned, ‘The solely drawback with placing you in something is that you simply made so successful of the character in The Road Warrior that it would not matter what you are doing, individuals would take a look at they might take a look at it and see Wes. They would by no means see regardless of the different character was. You sort of spoiled it for your self that method.’
”Anyway, I might like to do even just a bit half in it. I like George as a result of he took a punt on someone who was a no one when he may have had anyone on this planet in that movie. He plucked me from obscurity and gave me my profession.”
