'Sex and the City 3' Big Spoiler

Just before being seated for the first Sex and the City movie, the lights in a Michigan theatre went out. After waiting years to see more adventures with the City girls, would there be another delay? Thankfully, no. Though one would have been welcome when SATC 2 came out. It was with trepid excitement that fans welcomed news of a third movie in the venerable franchise could be happening. Those low hopes were dashed when Kim Cattrall declared that she was done playing her signature character and that there was nothing that would change her mind. And with that SATC 3 went the way of a Community movie. Maybe it'll happen but it won't be the same.

A major character, not named Samantha Jones, was set to be killed off in the envisioned sequel. Carrie's husband, "Mr. Big," was allegedly going to have a heart attack early on in the film, “making the remainder of the movie more about how Carrie recovers from Big‘s death than about the relationship between the four women.” That comes from people close to Cattrall, who was reportedly unhappy with the tragic twist and the fact that Sam would not have as juicy of a story. This says that Cattrall for all f her accolades and Awards for playing Sam in the original series, never actually read the scripts. SATC was always about Carrie and her adventures in dating, the friendship between the women was always a secondary device to their love and sex lives.

There is also the issue of salary. Warner Brothers, the owner of the rights to the SATC franchise, wanted to pay the leading ladies a paltry $1 million months work or so. That's right; Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, and Kim Cattrall would have only made $1 million for the movie, plus that would have divvied up the back end profit participation. Imagine that horror! No wonder, Cattrall had to turn it down, she would have had to go on welfare for that sort of paycheck. Parker did try to negotiate with Cattrall's manager for most of the summer, reigniting that rumors of a feud between Cattrall and Parker. Both have denied it, though Cattrall said that she wasn't friends with any of her former co-stars.

Maybe the money and script had nothing to do with Cattrall not wanting to do the movie, maybe it was a personal reason. According to Amy Harris, a former writer/producer, Cattrall just wasn't confident that she could reach the heights that she once did. “It was really deep down she wanted to move on, and that’s a completely legitimate choice,” Harris suggested. The writer also mentioned that creator Michael Patrick King wasn't sure that he could do it either. Allegedly in a private meeting with King, “she was sort of hinting that she was afraid she couldn’t do it again.” If this was the case, then the movie focusing on Carrie's journey to widowhood shouldn't have been such an issue for her.

Whatever the reason may be, it is unlikely at this stage that the four women who redefined girl talk will appear in anything together again. Parker had insinuated in other interviews that the possibility of recasting Samantha was out there. Rumors had sparked that Michelle Pfeifer and Sharon Stone were among the ladies that Warner Brothers, King, and Sarah Jessica Parker were considering. Though nothing ever came of it, if they wanted to revive the franchise, that would be the best way to go. Or they could hire Susan Lucci, who can play any role that is set in front of her. Never underestimate Erica Kane.