Why Leave Good Films Alone? Let's Ruin 'The Descent'
On top of that, let's take the stupid American ending
For anyone that has seen Neil Marshall's cave dwelling horror The Descent most likely knows there were two versions, the original UK version, which was called the "unrated" version here in the States and the American version, which offers up a happy ending as opposed to the original's dour UK and more appropriate and logical ending.
New came out of The Hollywood Reporter today that a sequel to the film and Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza are set to reprise their roles in the film. Shauna played Sarah and Natalie played Juno, two friends who, along with four others, go on a cave-diving expedition and are met by underground cave mutants. If you haven't seen the first film turn away now because I am about to ruin the ending.
The fact that either of these characters are returning is silly. Juno was left for dead and you could even hear her screaming as creatures descended upon her. Sarah, on the other hand, briefly has a dream sequence in which she escapes and then is suddenly brought back to reality and is alone, in the dark and about to die. The dream sequence was presented as reality in the American version and Sarah was allowed to escape. The sequel will take the American version and Sarah will be heading back into the cave to find Juno. Yeah, stupid!
Along with MacDonald and Mendoza, Gavan O'Herlihy, Joshua Dallas, Anna Skellern, Douglas Hodge and Krysten Cummings have joined the cast as the will all head back into the caves Sarah battled her way out of in the first film, in a bid to locate Juno, the girl she left for dead.
The original earned $57 million, $31 of which came from international box-office sales meaning the majority of the original audience that believe (rightly so) that both Juno and Sarah are dead and there is no way in hell they could have survived. There is no reason they couldn't have sent a whole new group of searchers into the cave as opposed to using the original cast, but that would be too hard I guess. Yay for un-originality.
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