‘Language Is a Construct, Man’: Why We May Never Get Another Spiritual Sequel Like Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’

‘Language Is a Construct, Man’: Why We May Never Get Another Spiritual Sequel Like Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some!!’

When Sony Pictures released the teaser trailer for “The Social Reckoning” last month, they described it as a “companion piece” to “The Social Network.” That deliberate phrase was clarified by a recent Variety item that says movie studios are coming up with linguistic workarounds to avoid using words like “sequel.” “Audiences have been trained to think ‘sequel’ means homework,” says marketing and distribution executive Marc Weinstock. “People wan…