Sequel
In 2006, filmmaker Richard Linklater expressed an interest in adapting Last Flag Flying, a sequel to The Last Detail, into a film. He wrote a screenplay and sent a copy to Quaid but said that he would not do it unless Nicholson was involved. In the novel, Buddusky runs a bar and is reunited with Larry Meadows after his son is killed in the Iraq War. It was rumored that Morgan Freeman was interested in taking over the role of Mule from Otis Young, who died in 2001.
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“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)