An American Werewolf in London is probably the best werewolf movie ever made. An American Werewolf in Paris, which arrived 16 years after, is not.

However, there could have been a sequel to the seminal horror comedy that we'd have been able to get on board with. It turns out American Werewolf writer/director John Landis was asked to do a sequel 10 years after the original and came up with a concept.

As revealed in the book Beware the Moon: The Story of An American Werewolf in London by Paul Davis, which is about to get a limited edition paperback run, his idea revolved around a minor character from the first film.

"I was asked to do a sequel by PolyGram in 1991," Landis explains. "The company, under Jon Peters and Peter Guber, made something like 10 or 12 movies, and the only one that made money was American Werewolf.

"They then left the company and were replaced by a guy called Michael Kuhn. He called me and said that they were interested in making a sequel. I entertained the idea for a little bit and then came up with something that I liked and wrote a first draft of the script.

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"The movie was about the girl that the boys talk about at the beginning of the movie, Debbie Klein. She gets a job in London as a literary agent and while she's there, starts privately investigating the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Jack and David.

"The conceit was that during the time in the first film where Jenny goes to work and David is pacing around the apartment, he actually wrote Debbie Klein a letter. It was all to do with this big secret that David had never told Jack that he had a thing with her.

"She tracks down Dr Hirsch, who tells her that Alex now lives in Paris because she was so traumatised by what happened. She went back to the Slaughtered Lamb and everyone is still there! I think the only changes were a portrait of Charles and Diana where the five-pointed star used to be and darts arcade game instead of a board.

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"It's then when she speaks to Sgt McManus, the cop from the first movie who didn't die, that she finds out that Jenny is still in London. She calls her and leaves an answer phone message, which we then reveal is being listened to by the skeletal corpses of Jack and David, watching TV in Alex's apartment!

"The big surprise at the end was that Alex was the werewolf. It was pretty wild. The script had everybody in it from the first movie – including all the dead people!"

However, Landis went on: "I gave the script to Michael Kuhn and he loathed it! He absolutely hated it and was actually pretty insulting about it. Clearly he would have hated the script for the first movie, because like that, it was funny and scary – and if anything, a little wackier."

Beware The Moon: The Story of An American Werewolf in London by Paul Davis

Which frankly sounds amazing – we're pretty gutted this script never saw the light of day. Instead we got the dreadful American Werewolf in Paris alongside the more recent threat that John Landis' son Max was planning a remake of his dad's movie, which everyone (including his dad) thinks is a bad idea.

Check out Beware the Moon: The Story of An American Werewolf in London by Paul Davis for more info, interviews, and behind the scenes photos. The limited edition paperback (500 copies) will be shipped on November 27. Pre-order it here.

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