reboot
if this was rebooted
i'd want either
Joseph Kosinski
or
Nicolas Winding Refn
at the helm
"i wish someone would remake Hollywood" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM
Joseph Kosinski would be an excellent choice. I'm not really keen on a re-make (though a buddy and I outlined how we'd do it a few years back), but I'd love to see a sequel.
'Cause there's thunder in your heart... every move is like lightning!
i was just about to type that it would be hard to find an actor as good as the guy who did centauri
looking it up i am sad to see it was his last ever film - this adds to how great he is now for me
the rest of the film could be recast and be less star wars'd
i vote reboot first then a sequel
"i wish someone would remake Hollywood" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM
Yeah the great Robert Preston. Apparently writer Jonathan Betuel envisioned Centauri as a Harold Hill (The flim-flam man from The Music Man) type of character, and he and director Nick Castle thought "Why not just get Robert Preston (who played Hill) to play Centauri?". Preston was sick while filming TLS, but was apparently a real pro the whole time.
There's a thread here somewhere about fantasy casting a sequel or a re-boot and Gene Hackman's name was the most popular to play Centauri. Unfortunately Hackman is retired now. My next choice would likely be Christopher Lloyd or maybe someone like Eddie Izzard or Ricky Gervais just so you could keep the same sort of "Do I trust this guy?" aspect, but without copying the first one bit for bit.
'Cause there's thunder in your heart... every move is like lightning!
maybe izzard - defo not gervais - gervais doesn't belong in films - lloyd would be a bit too typecast - i'll come back to this if they ever announce it
"i wish someone would remake Hollywood" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTmT3wVBxM
I'm not really keen on a re-make (though a buddy and I outlined how we'd do it a few years back)
What was that outline about, exactly? share
What was that outline about, exactly?
I wish I could remember . Those files were on an old PC, and I never saved them. Technically I should've said "outlines", because I do recall that he and I had very different takes (as we usually do). His was darker and much more sophisticated than mine. He was more concerned with making it different, and I was focused on how you would update certain aspects for the 21st century, as well as fleshing out the backstory between Xur and the Kodan vs. the Rylans--And I was really keen to make sure that the audience would know that Earth would soon be in their crosshairs. I also wanted to make the final battle more complex, and come up with something better than the "Hit this and everything goes 'Boom!'." idea TLS lifted from Star Wars.
Typically my feeling on re-makes is; if you're going to do it, you have to have a fresh take on the material and not simply update the F/X and pop culture aspects. Unfortunately, I never cracked that particular nut. I still had Maggie, Louis, Centauri, the Beta Unit sub-plot, Alex's refusal, etc.
The biggest hurdle I climbed was figuring out how to update the sword and the stone aspect of Alex being chosen. Obviously arcade games aren't the way most kids do their gaming today, but I hated to lose the iconography of that machine. Ultimately I decided I had to ditch it. I replaced the arcade machine with a CD that arrives in the mail purporting to be a beta test for a soon to be released on-line space combat game called Starfighter. Alex quickly becomes the best player on-line and is approached by Centuari as in the original movie. I kept the notion that Alex received the game by mistake because I really liked that "destiny" angle.
I really wish I could remember more specifics for you. God and my 9th grade English teacher know that I'm not a world class writer, but I was proud of a number of the little flourishes and touches I came up with while hashing that out.
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I agree with your considerations on a remake. I guess that great minds think alike. :-D
Have you read my own take on a Last Starfighter reboot (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/board/thread/216846140?d=216846140 #216846140)? I, too, think that the arcade machine should be replaced by a game for a home system (although my take on it is a little different) and that the movie should be darker than the original, because modern audiences are more cynical than 1984 audiences.