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By Rafe Telsch: 2008-07-07 10:31:24

I was disappointed by Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, which gave a realistic depiction of CIA spies. By “realistic” we mean “boring.” The movie was just slow and, while I appreciate the realism De Niro showed, and some of the performances were interesting, it just wasn’t a movie I could dig into and enjoy, and it’s not a film I’ve felt like revisiting. De Niro is all about revisiting the movie, however, and is back to talking about creating two more Good Shepherd pictures.While at the Karlovy Film Festival over the weekend, De Niro weighed in on the pending SAG strike and talked about his desire to make two more pictures about Matt Damon’s passive hero Edward Wilson. If made, the first sequel would bump action into the late Cold War Era (1989), and a third film would move to present day. Considering Damon’s character only got interesting as he got older, I’d much rather just see us jump to the third picture and let him be a curmudgeonly old man reminiscing of his days as a younger spy when hours would go by with nothing happening at all.

De Niro told Variety that he wasn’t currently researching information for the sequels, but his trip to central Europe gave him the opportunity to think about the material again. Here’s hoping De Niro will think about it during his Europe trip and then return to Hollywood and forget about The Good Shepherd all over again. At least the actor plans to collaborate with Martin Scorsese a couple more times, which generally yields better results than De Niro’s spy drama.

chris_sc77

No thanks Mr. De Nero.
How about a sequel to Midnight Run though?

TGM

umm, have you seen Charles Grodin lately?

Larry C.

Oh Oh Oh I Love Mighnight Run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Patman

How about "The Bad Shepherd" and "The Ugly Shepherd" as titles for the Shepherd trilogy?

Cornelius1047

I have actually. He asked me if I wanted fries with my Big Mac, but I politely declined.



K

Groucho

Midnight Run 2: Midnight Harder

Midnight Run 2: Electric Boogaloo

Midnight Run Strikes Back

Midnight Run, Too!

Another Midnight Run

Midday Run

Midnight Sprint

Midnight Run: The Beginning

Seantn

Did he sick Beethoven on you?

gmanca

I think Clifford took a lot out of him; I know it did to me.

Superman07

Another was already used.

Another Midnight Run
Midnight Runaround
Midnight Run for Your Life

chris_sc77

Yeesh, Grodin looks a bit like Dick Cheney in that pic.
But I wasnt expecting him to return anyways. De Nero returning as Jack Walsh would be enough if given a new bounty/sidekick

Cornelius1047

I consider Clifford to be the absolute worst movie I have ever sat through in a theatre, with atrocities like The Wicker Man and Battlefield Earth close behind.

K

Dr Mabuse

'Midnight Run' is one of the best motion pictures ever made...

anyone who says different is going to hell...

Shannon Nutt

I liked THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

islandclaws

I've owned The Good Shepherd on DVD for well over a year but I still haven't watched it. I did hear it was pretty boring. If De Niro can learn from that and make the next 2 films a little more exciting then I'd be open to seeing a trilogy.

Ronnie Dobbs

I read on I think Scene It that Albert Brooks turned down Grodin's role in Midnight Run.

Troy Stiffler

Whoa! He looks like an old guy! And he IS 73.

But c'mon, Mr. Grodin. Does a trendy pair of specs and a good teeth bleechin' really cost too much?

I didn't get around to watching THE GOOD SHEPARD. But I bet that I'll like it.

Troy Stiffler

Wow. I bet that he went on to make a wealth of movies about being a writer - or a movie that's being made within a movie - or something else about Hollywood.

cranberries fan

Hey The Good Shepherd is good old-school story telling that hollywood does not always let out anymore.
It's maybe to slow for alot people I thought it had a very good cast of actors.

Dan

I'm one of the few who loved The Good Shepherd. Bring on the sequels!

Giantrobo

Same here.

Groucho

Good Shepherd 2: Shepherd Harder

Good Shepherd Hunting

Another Good Shepherd

The Better Shepherd

The Good Shepherd vs. Midnight Run

pjflyer

Good Will Shepherding

chris_sc77

Meet the Shepherds?

DRG

Gooder Shepherd
Goodest Shepherd

Shepherd? I hardly Knowherd!