By Back in September 2022 came Greg Mottola’s “Confess, Fletch,” a $20 million budgeted film adaptation of the books that spawned the two Chevy Chase-led crime comedy features of the late 1980s.
The Jon Hamm-led and Miramax-produced movie wasn’t 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.
This was despite reviews for the film being good and everyone seemingly pleased with the title. It was a project of love, Hamm and Mottola giving back 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.
Now though, Block is out at Miramax and Mottola has taken to social media to confirm that the sequel has been nixed by the new Miramax chief. Here’s his collected postings:
“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.”
Mottola is currently working on the second season of Max’s John Cena-led “Peacemaker” TV series and says it “has been a blast!” so far.
“Confess, Fletch” is now available to watch on Paramount+ everywhere and Netflix in certain territories as well as on VOD platforms.
Source: Twitter
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