37 years after it was made and abandoned then, it seems the world is finally going to get a finished, official version of Grizzly 2: Revenge (previously known as Grizzly 2: The Predator and Grizzly 2: The Concert). This new edit of the film had its premiere in LA on the 17th Feb 2020, which nobody seems to have been aware of till after the fact. Of course anyone watching the trailer for Grizzly 2: Revenge (2020) on Youtube and under the impression it is a 2020 film will probably think "it's amazing what they can do with de-ageing these days, Charlie Sheen, George Clooney and Laura Dern, just look the same as they did in 1983".
There was a fan edit floating around a few years ago, which got round the fact that the leaked Grizzly 2 work print was missing most of the special effects footage by inserting in bear attack material from the original film. Which kinda worked. I'm guessing someone has done something similar with Grizzly 2: Revenge, only in an official capacity. This probably explains why the fan edit disappeared from YouTube, and why the film's producer has been trying to get the work print footage taken down from archive.org. Supposedly Cannon took an interest in finishing and releasing the film in 1987, which would have been a marriage made in heaven. Grizzly 2 is a very Cannon-esque movie at times, the ending is straight out of Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, except that the concert gets gate crashed by a giant teddy bear. Maybe Cannon would have released it as Grizzly 2: Furball Boogaloo.
Pathetic bit of name dropping: Bruno Tonioli, who also makes a ‘before they were famous’ appearance in Grizzly 2, once chipped in to a Twitter conversation I was having about the film. Hopefully Bruno, who takes on the difficult and against type role of a dance choreographer in the film, has made it into the Grizzly 2: Revenge edit.
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