This brings the whole dueling films thing like Antz and A Bugs Life or Armageddon and Deep Impact into a whole new territory!

Twitch dug up info there is another person working on a Showgirls sequel!

Rena Riffel – Penny Hope in the original movie, was originally going to be in that terrible-looking Showgirls: The Return until she realized it will be terrible and instead is making her own sequel, Showgirl.

My film is titled SHOWGIRL, being that I am the last and only “showgirl” still keeping that flame alive. It’s sort of a…”What ever happened to Penny Hope?” – fifteen years later, story. SHOWGIRL is my take on what becomes of a thirty-something year-old stripper who is still obsessed with dancing and fame.

We are planning on shooting this coming summer and are still searching for a few of our leading and supporting characters to round out the cast. SHOWGIRLS’ fans will be pleased to learn that some of the original cast members have agreed to be in SHOWGIRL, and some of my MULHULLAND DRIVE cast members will appear as well. It is my hope to work with my SHOWGIRLS friends Gina Gershon and Elizabeth Berkley again too. And, I am even thinking about giving my former STRIPTEASE co-star friend Demi Moore a call.

You could say I’m pulling a “Barbra Streisand.” SHOWGIRL is my YENTL, because I will be writing, directing and starring! We are securing major funding and working with top production talent, like the original post production team who did the original SHOWGIRLS. It’s pretty exciting and amazing. Stay tuned for more news coming soon!”

There is a trailer at the Twitch link complete with nudity which is why it isn’t embedded here. It looks awful as well, but an awesome kind of awful (even though it is just a demo reel and not any actual scenes) We got trannies and midgets, so that beats the other film by a mile on that alone.

The closest thing I can think of is the dual The Art of War 2s, one of which was filmed and ready to go starring Anthony ‘Treach’ Criss, but then Wesley Snipes got into court trouble and needed money fast, so he agreed to be in a DTV sequel of his own for The Art of War and that one got released first, bumping the original The Art of War 2 to be The Art of War 3. And we have a review of the original The Art of War, just sayin’.

Showgirls 2 (aka Showgirls: The Return) has a trailer up at Showgirls2.com (NSFW link here NSFW!!!) which has tons and tons of nudity and goes on for way way way too long. It also has a skeleton playing the violin for the extra WFT? factor. Showgirls 2 looks totally like amateur hour, buying the rights to the name was the only smart move they did. Maybe they should have brought a dump truck full of money to the house of other Saved by the Bell cast members. Or, considering how hard up most of them are (especially from The New Class), a dump truck with a single $5 bill.

Perhaps the film is about a skeleton’s quest to become the greatest violin player in Las Vegas, and his love affair with a showgirl…

Twitchfilm dug up an interview with the director Marc Vorlander, who is dumb:
MV: I don’t care who is used to what. Heads will blow up, which is not a problem for American audiences. For European audiences it is. In terms of nudity my film will be a shock for American audience, because the final film will contain a lot more nudity than the trailer already had. And that is a problem for some Americans.

Egads, he will totally shock the Americans who watch movies named “Showgirls 2” demographic who will be driven to fits of madness over the excess nudity! Next I will shock gorehounds with my version of Machine Girl 2 that has some blood in it!

$25 million dollar budget? Where did the other $24,999,990.00 go???

It’s true! And which cast member of Saved by the Bell: The New Generation will get naked in this one? It better not be Screech.