That’s the last we ever saw of Otto (Emilio Estevez) the hero of Alex Cox’s 1984 cult classic Repo Man. . . until now. No, Estevez won’t be climbing back behind the wheel of that ’64 Chevy Malibu anytime soon, although at one time Cox had hopes that he might. In the mid-'90s, Cox wrote a screenplay called Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday that continued Otto’s adventures a decade later, and presented it to original Repo Man producer Michael Nesmith. As Cox tells Entertainment Weekly, “We all came down for the meeting at Universal, and the executive that we had been delegated to meet was, like, twenty-one years old and had never seen the original Repo Man. [Laughs] And so it was an absurd meeting of these four old men and this sprightly individual who just didn't know what we were doing in his office. Nothing came of it.”
For a while, Cox tried to produce the sequel independently, but the project fell apart. Now, finally, Repo Man is back. Sort of.
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