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So it's official

posted 8 years ago by mammamia1216
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Disney has talked about remaking THE ROCKETEER for awhile, but now it looks like it's going into production. And yeah, I think it's a real bummer.

Someone needs to write a satire (book or screenplay) about the utter lack of originality in Hollywood, because it's getting ridiculous.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly west

[–] 5535 8 years ago

Another feminist agenda movie, this time with a female who's also black, because P.C. agenda and all?

Count me out.

LOL

let me guess, I must be sexist and racist, right?

LOLOLOLOLOL

The Rocketeer is an excellent near flawless movie that shouldn't be messed with.

If they are making a true sequel, get the original cast back, or else don't mess with it.

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[–] mammamia1216 8 years ago

Completely agree.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly west

[–] TheSolarSailor 8 years ago

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rocketeer-disney-movie-reboot-works-915037

The new take keeps the story in a period setting and offers a fresh view on the characters. Set six years after the original Rocketeer and after Secord has vanished while fighting the Nazis, an unlikely new hero emerges: a young African-American female pilot, who takes up the mantle of Rocketeer in an attempt to stop an ambitious and corrupt rocket scientist from stealing jet-pack technology in what could prove to be a turning point in the Cold War.

So not really a reboot in the total sense of the word, but a quasi-sequel. Hopefully, this won't really get off the ground. It is only in the early stages of development, according to the article, and hopefully it will remain in development hell until more logical heads come into play. Well, while we are at it, I guess they should make a new Indiana Jones movie starring a black woman. Her name could be Ohio Jones, taking up the mantle of her father, Indy, who disappeared after Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!  I don't think it is anymore ludicrous than what they have planned for the Rocketeer.

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[–] Mr-Fusion 8 years ago

So not really a reboot in the total sense of the word, but a quasi-sequel. Hopefully, this won't really get off the ground.

I am kinda hoping this doesn't lift off, although not for the usual "This sucks!" line of reasoning. Even so, I do wish they'd actually reboot the damn thing as opposed to the limp-wristed quasi-anything.

I can't complain about a property being rebooted or sequelized after so many years because TRON: Legacy turned out pretty well. I'm just jaded that the current franchise-hungry culture has turned its eyes toward this movie. 

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[–] mammamia1216 8 years ago

I agree with you. Remakes/reboots are not bad, theoretically. I for one fully intend to see PETE'S DRAGON. Now that is what a remake/reboot ought to be, because the first one really doesn't hold up that well (technical limitations and a weird-bordering-on-uncomfortable script). THE ROCKETEER didn't generate that much money, I know, but it holds up as a good movie. And as someone else mentioned, the PC agenda is getting tiresome.

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly west

[–] bluejaunter 7 years ago

This complaint is so unoriginal.

[–] Elvisp23 (312) 4 years ago

Who really gives a shit if remakes are made.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Not you, apparently.

[–] Elvisp23 (312) 4 years ago

I don’t understand why people get so worked up about it....

[–] jdforyou1983 (1469) 3 years ago

I hope they cancel it