Alex Cox wants to do some crimes, make Repo Man 2

Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic Repo Man is a film that’s almost inherently hard to imitate—which might explain the various struggles the Sid & Nancy director has had, over the years, in getting a sequel to the film off the ground himself. Now, Variety reports that Cox has just launched the latest effort to rally those who wish to get sushi and not pay, announcing that he’ll be shopping Repo Man 2: The Wages Of Beer around at the Berlin Film Festival this month, with backing from Buffalo 8 Productions.

The long-delayed sequel will apparently see Dark Winds’ Kiowa Gordon take over the role of titular repossession professional Otto, last seen a) as Emilio Estevez, and b) getting into a 1964 Chevy Malibu that then departed for the stars. According to Variety, Otto has aged 90 whole minutes since the last time we saw him, which is pretty good, for having been subject to one of cult cinema’s more esoteric happy endings.

That description would also seem to imply that Cox’s previous Repo Man follow-ups are probably non-canon at this point. Cox posted a script for a Repo Man 2 on his web site years ago, which was eventually turned into a graphic novel called Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday, which saw Otto return from his sojourn on Mars and pick up a whole new crappy job in his 30s. Cox also directed a sort of spiritual sequel, Repo Chick, in 2009, which starred Jaclyn Jonet as a Paris Hilton-type who finds herself in a similarly surreal adventure involving nuclear bombs and a bunch of eco-terrorists.

Repo Man 2, meanwhile, promises to “deliver an enthralling mix of punk energy, existential comedy, and unconventional storytelling, navigating the absurd and chaotic world of repo men into a new age of nuclear brinkmanship and driverless cars.” If we’re being honest, that sounds like a lot for Cox—whose most recent film was a 2017 crowdfunded feature called Tombstone Rashomon—to manage at this point, but you know what they say: The life of a Repo Man director is always intense.