![]() ![]() ![]() In the mid-1990s, the studio approached director Kevin Smith to make a threequel, but that effort ended in development hell. Nevertheless, it was still reasonably profitable and Universal was eager to make a third film. The 1989 sequel (also starring Chase and directed by Ritchie) was not as successful, earning 10 million dollars less at the box office on an identical budget. And I actually spoke to a class at one of those colleges by speaker phone! Here I was, talking to a class of 200 people-and you know, it’s not ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’” “I would get calls from colleges like Amherst and Williams when I was back in L.A. In 1999, the New York Post’s Jonathan Foreman reported that Fletch had become all the rage on American college campuses: “It’s huge,” Chase tells The Post. Confidential, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, and The Player. Ritchie’s 1985 film Fletch is now widely regarded as a cult classic, and in 2008, a group of Los Angeles Times writers voted it the 23rd best film set in Los Angeles over the previous quarter-century, alongside gems like L.A. Earlier this month, Miramax brought us Confess, Fletch, the latest cinematic incarnation of the wise-ass investigative reporter first brought to the screen by Chevy Chase and director Michael Ritchie in the 1980s. ![]()
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