The headline says it all, y’all. From 
Universal has started the wheels moving on a sequel to the 1988 classic comedy Midnight Run.
The studio has hired Tim Dowling [Role Models] to write the comedy, with Robert De Niro reprising his role as Los Angeles-based bounty hunter Jack Walsh. No word on the plot, but Walsh will chase a new fugitive. Charles Grodin, who retired from acting to become a broadcast journalist, won’t return.
I was a big fan of the original Midnight Run, and for the sequel, I’d like to humbly request that they just take the same title and make it a Harold-and-Kumar-esque romp about Nick Nolte and Rip Torn’s quest for late-night Taco Bell.
NOLTE: Aw, hell, Rip let’s get outta here. This ain’t a Taco Bell, it’s a bank.
TORN: The hell it is.
*pulls pistol*
TORN: Gimme your goddamned tacos.
NOLTE: Ask the sonovabitch if he’s seen my satchel.
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I like the idea, Vince. Then, they could do a sequel to that called ’4AM Runs’ about the ensuing trips to the bathroom.
Unfortunately, Jack Walsh can’t make it much past 8 p.m. these days.
How about instead, a Harold-and-Maude-esque romp about Gary Busey and Carrie Fisher’s quest for late night Wookoyote Tacos?
It’d be worth it to see Gary Busey dress the Millenium Falcon up like a hearse.
DeNiro’s midnight runs now typically involve some kind of clean up.
This is gonna be filmed on location in Branson, MO.
Good to see that Deniro can fit this in between movies where he’s a power bottom pirate or a shill for Ben Stiller’s latest turd.
Apparently no amount of money could tear Charles Grodin away from his career in broadcast journalism that ended 12 years ago.
Finding the new Charles Grodin won’t be any easier than hiding from the old one.
I have a picture very much like that poster in a photo album. The only difference is that I’m standing directly behind the person to whom I’m handcuffed and she’s wearing mime makeup.
Does De Niro have an insatiable coke habit or a hole in the bottom of his bank account? Everything he’s done since Ronin has been absolute shit, so he must need the money pretty badly
Money-belt replaced by money-sansabelts. OH, BUT IT LOOKS GOOD ON YOU.
TORN: I told you, I want a god-damn cerveza with my gordita!
*pulls pistol*
NOLTE: Get him to throw in some cinnamon twists!
BUSEY (as the teller): I told you varmints to stop buggin’ me at work! Now scram on outta here!
*pulls sour cream gun from behind counter*
NOLTE: Looks like we got ourself a Mexican food stand-off
*pulls armadillo from sweatpants*
I’m waiting for the news of his involvement in Rocky and Bullwinkle 2.
No, srsly! That way I can stop giving a shit about Robert DeNiro.
Midnight Runs sponsored by Depends.
TORN: Yeah, me and Nolte here will take four a them crunchy gordito supremos or whatever you wetbacks are callin’ ‘em. And we’ll take ‘em
*draws pistol*
TORN: …to go
NOLTE: Aw, hell, you ol’ scuttlebutt. That’s a mailbox yer jabberin’ at.
TORN: You see pretty good…
*pistol whips mailbox*
TORN: …for a man with an eye swollen shut.
NOLTE: I’m over here, Rip.
DeNiro needs to stop taking career advice from David Carusso.
Twilight Run – he has to run a vampire across the country before werewolves catch up to them and sodomize them both.
This is just DeNigrating
What the hell is it with these long-past ‘sequels,’ especially in genres that have got beat to bloody shreds? D. Nero must be pinched for money to consider this caper, which got about as much chance of packing blockbuster-type butts in the seats as a continuous loop of I. Krupnik’s naked hide running in the booths at a gay bookstore.
ChinoMoreno says:
Midnight Runs sponsored by Depends
De [Niro] Winnah!!!