Warner Bros. Considering Making a Sequel to 'Casablanca' Because Nothing is Sacred

"They're tarnishing our legacy, Rick"
 "We'll always have 1943, kid"

If there is one movie that Warner Bros. prizes and loves above all others in their catalog, it's "Casablanca." The classic movie that even people who don't like classic movies adore, it has become an American cinematic institution, and a film that WB has re-re-re-re-released countless times on home video over the years. The film endures as one of the all time greats, so of course, that means sequels and followups have been tossed around for years.

After winning Best Picture in 1943, the studio got a sequel going titled "Brazzaville," following Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine as an agent of the secret police, but it never got past the treatment by Frederic Stephani. Rick reappeared on the short lived TV series "Warner Bros. Presents" played by Charles McGraw, and then there was "Passage To Marseilles" which brought together Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Claude Rains for another exotic wartime story, but it paled in comparison to their work on "Casablanca" (itself a picture that became a classic by fluke, initially viewed by the studio has just another product in the pipeline). But never say never.

The New York Post (via The Film Stage) reveals that within the last 18 months, Warner Bros. has passed, but kept the door open for a followup titled -- wait for it -- "Return To Casablanca." Penned by the film's original, and subsequently blacklisted writer Howard Koch in the 1980s, the story follows Rick and Ilsa's son Richard in 1961. Here's a synopsis (of sorts):