On the road again? One fan hopes to make sequel to 'Easy Rider'

On the road again? One fan hopes to make sequel to 'Easy Rider' -- finally.
James Sterngold, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, March 4, 2005

Hollywood -- The 1960s may be long gone, but can its most celebrated movie anthem, "Easy Rider," make a comeback?

This trippy, cinematic tone poem about two toked-up drug dealers searching for the soul of America has drifted into Hollywood lore in part because it was such a pure expression of the times and seemed, legally as well as creatively, one of a kind, inimitable. It was famously made on the fly by a group of new age Hollywood hipsters -- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson -- and the producers of "The Monkees" television series.

But after their collaboration spoke enigmatic truths to an alienated generation, they stopped speaking to one another for the most part, tying "Easy Rider" into legal knots that have only added to the movie's aura. Any notion of an "Easy Rider" franchise, and there have been plenty of failed efforts to recapture the film's magic in sequels or remakes, seemed as dead as the film's three main characters, all killed off at the movie's dark conclusion.

Or so it seemed.

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They showed Dennis Hopper and the other guy getting out of the hospital after getting fixed up, and then they'd go out and do things like jump off their motorcycles while they were moving and run alongside them and jump back on.