Will They Ever Make a Third Crank Film?Just about everyone involved in making the Crank films (including Staham) has expressed interest at some point in shocking the franchise back to life with a third movie, but for the most part, chatter about a potential Crank 3 has quieted down in recent years. โWeโve been talking for years about Crank 3,โ Statham hopefully told Entertainment Weekly back in 2015, explaining his admiration for writing-directing duo Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor.
โThe first Crank, for me, was such a great experience,โ Statham said. โItโs a wacky few weeks that you have with such talented directors. Thereโs no rules when youโre doing the Crank movies. We just keep going: โHow are we going to get this off the ground?โ They have a loose idea [for Crank 3]. They havenโt written the script.โ
Rather more recently, Taylor shed some light on how a changing entertainment culture makes a third Crank movie not exactly impossible, but definitely a more delicate proposition than in the past. โI donโt think you could make Crank in todayโs climate,โ he confided to Comicbook.com in 2018, citing the first two filmsโ โdisrespectful, politically incorrect qualityโ as a tough Hollywood sell, with more than a decade separating his 2018 remarks from the original Crank.
โThe one thing that I wonโt do is sort of like a cheap, boring, tame version of the Crank movie,โ he added. โThereโs been opportunities to do that, and thereโs definitely been opportunities to just, for purely financial reasons, make a version that I think Crank fans would find lame. Iโm just not going to do it. Thereโs a lot of ideas for it. Thereโs a lot of great ideas for a Crank movie, but itโs got to be cool. Everybodyโs headโs got to be in the right place. It has to be made for the right reasons. Itโs got to be creatively driven.โ
Since then, the juice has all but slowed to a trickle on fresh news that might spark fansโ Crank sequel wattage back to life. But in spite of Hollywoodโs recently-heightened reluctance to embrace entertainment with no surge protection in place for shock value, Taylor still has managed to fry a few OMG moments right past the olโ socket: He directed Christopher Meloni through two seasons of SYFYโs wacked-out adult comedy Happy! (2017-2019), while writing or co-writing the majority of the seriesโ seriously raunchy episodes.
Where to Stream the First 2 Crank MoviesItโs tough to top a sequel that featured a guy with a draining battery for a heart, but if Crank: High Voltage ends up being the last Crank, we get it at least leaves the franchise humming at its highest possible frequency. Catch both Crank and Crank: High Voltage streaming now at Peacock, and save the date for May 19, when Statham is set to reprise his Fast Saga role as Deckard Shaw in Fast X (get tickets now!).