Posted on 05/10/2014 7:46:18 AM PDT by Perdogg
These days, reboots are all the rage in film. Now it’s believed that Fast & Furious director Justin Lin has his eyes set on a Lethal Weapon reboot. If that news isn’t exciting on its own, then it’s who he has his sights set on that should really be the talk of the industry.
The Tracking Board reports that Lin wants none other than Thor’s Chris Hemsworth to take the lead role in the upcoming reboot for Lethal Weapon. As some of you may or should know, Australian actor Mel Gibson took the title role of Martin Riggs, and it looks like Aussie native Chris Hemsworth may follow in his footsteps.
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They couldn’t get Mel because he’s too busy imploding; and, Glover wasn’t available because he’s still in mourning after the loss of his hero Chavez.
LOL!
You're right. I have a number of books, even a series or two that I'd love to see made into great movies. That is my worry though too. I'm afraid Hollywood would take a great story, full of imagery, character, and values...and apply their "formula" to it. The scenes would be stylized, the characters shallow and easily digestible, the values and morals in the story distorted beyond recognition (even reversed) to conform to current Hollywood fashion.
As much as I'd like to see some of my favorite stories made into movies, I am very, very afraid of what Hollywood would do to them.
Hollywood needs to be rebooted.
Ridiculous. Supposedly even “Weird Science” is getting remade. REALLY?!?! Was there a clamoring for that or for a Lethal Weapon remake?
Actually, “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” made both a Lethal Weapon 5 and 6; I’ll say they’re both better than any reboot.
Not really. I am getting ready to go see “The Neighbors” at 1:20PM. I definitely know they have not done this movie before.
can’t come up with original stuff. why see it? by today’s’standards the first one is totally campy. don’t need to see a sideways/darker version. or a new campy one.
they should have stopped after lw#2. even lw#2 sucked w/ the apartheid bullcrap theme.
Well they spent all sorts on the Stuperman reboots and how about that awesome Lone Stranger and after that fiasco they're going have Hammer help destroy The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Because destroying Get Smart with a reboot wasn't enough they're going to try and crush all our childhood favorites.
They’d better not try to reboot “Dirty Harry.” But I fear it’s only a matter of time.
Total Recall was trash. Kate Beckinsale’s looks didn’t hold my attention. Fail.
RoboCop is worth a rental. I had higher hopes for it as the original’s sequels were trash and I wouldn’t mind seeing more of that story in a more gritty light. It wasn’t the turd Total Recall was, but I wasn’t exactly thrilled to pay top buck seeing it in a theater.
You detailed, perfectly, what Hollyweird did to World War Z (that would have made a great TV show ... Far too much material for a movie).
The originals were bad. This can only be worse — beyond bad.
Thank you Perdogg, just dropping in to say ‘hi’!
Time to remake Ishtar.
What’s with all the remakes??
Everything seems to be a reboot these days (music, broadway, art that borrows images from other works, movies, tv).
Most of it passes me by. I don’t buy the daily paper, I haven’t had a tv in 5 years, and I haven’t been to a commercial movie theater in over a year (a friend had free passes, it’d be another year or two before that for me). I don’t listen to music on commercial radio and have no idea what movies, tv shows, stars, or songs/bands are “top 10” or even “top 100”.
I still watch movies from Netflix and buy new albums and see concerts by bands touring new material. I just don’t buy into the rest of it. The only time I’m assaulted with hype for other films is when I watch the trailers on a DVD.
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Investors won’t fork over the big bucks unless creators can show them some sort of hook. Remakes, so the thinking goes, have a built-in audience that will boost numbers the opening weekend.
Of course, like anything else, sometimes it works and sometimes it flops.
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