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Exclusive: Richard Linklater on THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT, His Spiritual Sequel to DAZED AND CONFUSED

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Posted: November 16th, 2009 at 9:09 pm

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One of my favorite movies is director Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. While many filmmakers try and make moments feel real, Dazed and Confused is like watching a documentary. Everything feels like it’s really happening and nothing feels forced. I think it’s one of the most accurate portrayals of high school ever made and I cannot recommend the film enough.

While Dazed didn’t exactly do well when it got released, it’s one of those films that’s consistently played on cable and always sold well on DVD. It’s the kind of film any studio would want to have in its library. So when Richard Linklater announced he was going to make That’s What I’m Talking About, a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 film and it would take place on a college campus in the 80′s, I thought there would be a bidding war among studios wanting to build off the massive cult success of the original. But there wasn’t, and a film that many of us were dying to see never got off the ground.

So earlier today when I sat down with Linklater to talk about his new film Me and Orson Welles, we discussed what happened to That’s What I’m Talking About and he told me a lot more about the film and what really happened. The good news: it’s still a project he really wants to do and he has a plan to make it happen! Watch what he had to say after the jump. And Universal, if you’re reading this, make this film with Linklater and then you can package Dazed with this one!