Last month, screenwriter Max Landis announced that he was no longer attached to the sequel to Chronicle, stating via Twitter , " Chronicle 2 is still probably happening, just not with my involvement as of now. It's a bummer, but there are no real hard feelings."

Landis revealed earlier this year that 20th Century Fox wasn't happy with his original script , which he said would have explored the mysteries left behind in the first film. Now, the writer has gone into further detail about what he had planned for the sequel story."In retrospect, I'm not even sure if fans of the first film would've been ready or eager for my second installment as originally written," he wrote . "Gone was the aspirational 'what would you do,' gone were the pranks and bromance, gone were lovely tragic Andrew and hopeful, bright Steve. In their place was a dark, frustratingly unblinking stare into a complicated world that posed the question is it worth it to be a hero, told from the point of view of a heartbroken and insane woman who would martyr herself to the cause of being the world's first villain."

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Titled Martyr, Landis said the followup would have elaborated on ideas and situations seen in the first movie "to create a different genre of movie." He continued, "In the best of worlds, in my optimistic but wildly prejudiced eyes, this could make it an Aliens, a Terminator 2... in the worst a Grease 2. So at the end of the day, maybe it's better that Martyr never saw the light of day. Sad I didn't get to do some of my other versions. The multi-movie low budge Chronicle-based found footage superhero universe culminating in an Avengers-type team up was a real good one."Following his initial Twitter rant, Landis added that "Martyr also had two pretty cool robot suits in it. Sorta hyper realistic Iron Man stuff. Magnetic flight, sonic weaponry. Cool, cool stuff."Of course, Fox didn't take to the Martyr idea, as Max's father, producer John Landis, said of the controversy back in October: "[Max] wrote a sequel, and it's amazing, and the studio read it and said, 'We want Chronicle again!' And he said, 'No, this is the sequel, it's the evolution,' and they said 'No, we want that movie again!' So it's difficult, we're dealing with a difficult business."

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Via The Hollywood Reporter

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