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Remake? Why?

posted 8 months ago by johnmiller (3390)
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Holy fuckmonkey! They're actually thinking of remaking this:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-wick-henry-cavill-highlander-1235578215/

Why, Hollywood, why?

[–] legnadibrom (5738) 8 months ago

so Lambert can play as the Connery role that made him 80s famous

[–] Kowalski (59546) 5 months ago

I LIKE THIS THOUGHT.

[–] FootOfDavros (6829) 2 months ago

Lacks the flamboyance.

It's a shoe-in they go for actual Spaniard Javier Bardem this time...

[–] legnadibrom (5738) 2 months ago

i'm not convinced he could give us a passable Spanish accent like Connery's

[–] FootOfDavros (6829) 2 months ago

Ha, maybe! If he couldn't perfect the Spanish accent suitably maybe someone like Ewan McGregor / James McAvoy could bring a more authentic sound to the role...

[–] Lord Rake (3842) 2 months ago

Not a chance, he is too old with no name recognition now.

[–] legnadibrom (5738) 2 months ago

with Cavill as the Highlander why would they need any other name recognition?

[–] Lord Rake (3842) 2 months ago

No one is going to see a film just because Cavill is in it.

[–] FootOfDavros (6829) 2 months ago

I don't think that's true.

Look at the celebrity section on tmdb:-
https://www.themoviedb.org/discuss/people

There's some hardcore Henry Cavill fans on that site! I'd wager they'd go see anything he was in...

[–] Lord Rake (3842) 2 months ago

ok so 30 people are a lock, great.

[–] FootOfDavros (6829) 2 months ago

I had no idea that was the technical term for a group of thirty people but still... It's definitely proof of not being "no one" if you extrapolate up from the limited numbers on that site.

[–] Lord Rake (3842) 2 months ago

I have nothing against the guy, he just does not have wide name recognition.Perhaps if he did Justice League and BVS would not have tanked.

[–] Dogiswhite (1117) 5 months ago

Henry Cavill will star in it. Sounds somewhat interesting, but the original film was really good, so not really much point in a remake (or any sequels either as they were all bad).

[–] pjl69 (2442) 2 months ago

Why bother with a remake. They can't duplicate Michael Kamen's score and Queen's songs anyhow. There's no Connery and Highlander was a career defining role for Christopher Lambert. It was a perfect combination of these elements and you can only mess it up.

[–] Heisenberg (6367) 2 months ago

It was a perfect combination of these elements and you can only mess it up....like 99% of remakes do.

Hollywood is just lazy like that.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 2 months ago

"Why bother with a remake"

Originality in contemporary Hollywood is less welcome than the notion of civil liberty is in Pyongang

[–] FootOfDavros (6829) 2 months ago

They can't duplicate Michael Kamen's score and Queen's songs anyhow..

Not sure re the score but they are literally duplicating the Queen songs by re-using them.

[–] Anotherday (7201) 2 months ago

They're remaking everything else.

I'm waiting on the reboot/remake of the Avengers. It's been 12 years. Hollywood is slacking.
Let's cast it:

Timothy Chalamet as Tony Stark
Zendaya as black Widow
Kathryn Newton as Nikki Fury
Sam Rockwell as the Hulk
Finn Wolford as Hawkeye
Justice Smith as Thor.

Loki will be played by Bryce Dallas Howard

That right there is how remakes are made. Take a popular movie, replace it with a cast who is currently in movies, and week the race and gender to look different while actually not being different at all.

[–] 123Guy (6221) 2 months ago

Because new generations are fucking dumb as bricks