Alex Cox’s Repo Sequel: Subprime Mortgage Crisis Coming to the Big Screen

It was his feature film debut and over the long run became a fav among many cult film enthusiasts, but when 1984’s Repo Man got released, there were heads at Universal who failed to show support for Alex Cox’s debut. As the legend goes and as Cox states on his blog, it “was swiftly consigned to the Chute of No Return.”

Flash-forward almost two and a half decades later, and Cox, whose popularity perhaps peaked in the 80’s after Sid & Nancy and Walker, is attempting to bring a timely sequel to fruition.

Screen Daily reports that the Brit filmmaker has completed a screenplay entitled Repo Chick, and would include a couple of faces from the ’84 film. This sees the main protag played by (see the title) a female, against the backdrop of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the US, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high.