Trouble No More

His name was Johnny Chicago. He was loved and feared and mad crazy. And then the cops went and killed him. Determined to pay hommage to his late best friend, Chuck Moreno persuades Johnny's brother Ray to help him honour Johnny's last wish. But as anybody knows, family is trouble, especailly when Johnny's wife is against the idea and his daughter Tess has had the gloriously dumb idea to join the cops. The end of the Bausch/van Werveke trilogy includes madness, wild chases and a transatlantic finale: more trouble or Trouble No More? Andy Bausch: "I was aware that Thierry would die sooner or later, and he was aware of it. We just didn't know when, so in the last few months before his death, we made sure to respect Thierry's wish to film this third part. Because he said: “Even if it's the last thing I do, I want to make this film”. But when he was already ill, I wanted to have a “plan B” and shoot a few scenes with him in prison, in which he acted as narrator, because he was no longer physically able to do more than that. Standing and walking alone was already very painful for him. So he couldn't play a leading role in which he would have had to run and rob a bank. We had planned to shoot these scenes, but we never got round to it. There was an original script, a “Plan B” script and, after Thierry's death, a new script without Johnny Chicago, but with his legend. Because even in the script when Thierry was still alive, the character Johnny Chicago dies. The only difference is that he was supposed to be shot at the end of the film, whereas now it happens right at the beginning. Thierry would be very proud of this film. He would have a good time and laugh his head off. I had to finish this film in any case, and there are two reasons for that: Firstly, precisely because Thierry is no longer there, the story has to be told to the end. Secondly, this was my project that I had been working on for years and that I couldn't leave behind."