Why no sequel?
Detective Mills character would be an interesting protagonist. A broken man with a soul full of heartbreak. Why Pitt never asked to revive this character?
shareI'd always felt it would be cool if they made a sequel. My idea for one has always been:
After a much needed 1-3 year "rest" in a psychiatric facility, he gets out to learn that John Doe (out of some type of sympathy/respect/guilt) has left him the remainder of his money. Which Mills then uses to fund his hunt for serial killers. I'd like to also have some appearance of Somerset in maybe helping him physically or just advising him in his investigations.
Reminds me of The Reader.
Doubt Mills would accept Doe’s blood money, but it could be an interesting way to link the two films. Also not sure Mills would be sent to a psychiatric facility. Probably would have to undergo psych outpatient sessions. I don’t think charges would have been brought against him for killing Doe. What jury would not take pity on him?
But he'd accept the money for the sole purpose of using it to investigate and track down (and take out) serial killers and the like.
I'd think him being sent to a psych facility is exactly what he would need after all that. And it would also satisfy the court's need and the public's need for some type of "sentence" for emptying a gun into the man that murdered his wife. Revenge killings rarely go unpunished. But it wouldn't really be a punishment. It would be a necessary respite after the hell he'd been through.
The Reader? As in Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet? Or is it a different film?