‘The Nice Guys’ Will Never Get a Sequel Because of ‘The Angry Birds Movie’
We get so many sequels these days, most of them totally unnecessary, a lot of them largely unwanted. But their predecessors made money, their producers want to make more money, and so sequels get made. One recent movie that seemed primed for many sequels but never got one was The Nice Guys, writer/director Shane Black’s hilarious buddy comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. At the end of the film, Gosling and Crowe’s characters have become fast friends and decide to start their own detective agency called “The Nice Guys.” In other words, the movie was an origin story without the audie...