The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

CBS ordered a pilot for a True Lies reboot -

https://tvline.com/2021/02/10/true-lies-tv-series-pilot-reboot-cbs/

 

Face/Off next to get a facelift. Good luck to them in trying to match the utter insanity of Cage and Travolta at their scene-chewing best, as directed by John Woo https://deadline.com/2021/02/face-o...e-next-godzilla-vs-kong-paramount-1234690371/

 

It's supposed to be a direct sequel. Not sure what they'd do to accomplish that. Grown up Adam? They could bring back Travolta. He'd be significantly cheaper than the $20 million he got the first time around.

 

Yes, I’ve since seen the director say it’s a sequel. That seems even sillier than a remake.

 

It would seem like they would require the exact same kind of plot to get the two actors to do impersonations of each other. It's not like anyone would willingly let the bad guy look like the good guy. If this were a no-name director, it would scream lower budget, sequel-in-name-only that repeats the first movie, like Kindergarten Cop 2 or Inside Man 2 or Hard Target 2.

 

I don't think it was already posted about here, but I just heard today that a reboot of The Wonder Years is going ahead. With a black cast, and Fred Savage is involved. I really don't know about this one. The large part of what made the show so special were the circumstances surrounding it, ie the era and the stories they were able to tell. Not only was it a period piece, they were able to leverage that to do a lot of social commentary and all of that contributed to a perfect storm of a show that is going to be very hard to replicate, chief among them being the tone.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...reboot-from-lee-daniels-moving-forward-at-abc

 

I still find it a little funny that the original was only set 20 years before the series aired (season 1 aired in 1988 and was set in 1968), while this one will also be set in the late 1960s, as oppose to 2001. Of course, to me, a 16 year-old when the original first aired, 1968 seemed like 100 years earlier, whereas 2001 still feels like no time ago!

 

Western future Dracula? ...

Vampire hunter D anybody? .. Something that is SCREAMING to be made?

 

And that was perhaps to its advantage, as the 60's was still fairly fresh and you probably had a lot of the writers who had lived through the era that could attest to its accuracy. In the 80's, you also still had lots of 60's/70's music on the radio. Part of me fears that a lot of what made the original great will be lost in translation. The world is much more PC now, and I can't see some of the original stories being done today, and frankly they're probably the ones that need to be told the most. Given that this will also be a black family navigating the 60's, I certainly hope they won't hold back.

 

Wednesday Addams series from Tim Burton at Netflix

https://deadline.com/2021/02/wednes...-al-gough-miles-millar-to-showrun-1234695553/

 

Burton was approached to do the film versions in the 1990s. Everything that comes around goes around

 

I think the main reason this is even happening is because it's coming from Chloe Zhao, who is getting tons of praise for Nomadland, and is going to be in even higher demand soon since she's directing Marvel's The Eternals.

 

Re: The Wonder Years:

It's been longer between the premiere episode of That 70's Show and today than it was between the premiere of That 70's Show and when it was set. If made today it would be set in 1999.

The nostalgia bait shows have always been around but for some reason the 90's & 2000's just seem closer to us now. We got, what, Captain Marvel as our 90's nostalgia bait? Most stuff still does the 80's.

My guess is the 90's are too boring to Gen Z, packed between 80's and 2000's. And the 2000's aren't fun with the shadow of 9/11 still cast over us. Plus, the 2000's everyone got digital cameras and started recording everything. Facebook Memories are our 2000's nostalgia bait.

Just rambling. I had a house fire recently and I lost everything I had prior to 2019 so I've been doing a lot of ruminating on that kind of stuff.

 

Sorry about loosing all you stuff. Hope nobody was hurt in the fire and ya are finding away to rebound after that kind of terrible event.

Jason

 

Yeah, that’s terrible @wayoung I hope you’re getting on with things as best you can in the circumstances

 

Criminal Minds revival in early development at Paramount+
https://tvline.com/2021/02/19/criminal-minds-reboot-season-16-revival-paramount-plus/

Already? It just ended last year.

 

Yeah, that barely even counts as a revival. Some shows, like The Sopranos, have had a bigger gap than that between seasons.

 

The Frazier revival is a go. It will be at Paramount+ probably in 2022

https://deadline.com/2021/02/dr-frasier-crane-kelsey-grammer-reboot-paramount-plus-1234699954/

 

I'm curious if they're gonna go the lazy route and have Fraser need to move into Frederick's home in a reversal of the set up for "Fraser".

 

Paramount+ is doing tv series based on these movies:

Fatal Attraction, Flashdance, Love Story, The Parallax View and The Italian Job

https://tvline.com/2021/02/24/fatal-attraction-flashdance-tv-series-paramount-plus/