I wonder who could play a nuKlink. Colin Mochrie, maybe?
Hogan's Heroes....
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This is something I'm not sure would fly today. There are so many intangibles involved. The writing and direction was generally good and the acting was awesome. The setting and subject matter came along at just the right time for the audience to be receptive to it.
With anything from the past you try to reboot it is a very hit-and-miss gamble. Maverick worked because they had the right people and everything came together. That said I don't recall the original television Maverick very well. Yet a lot of reboots don't work nearly as well.
It can help to have some distance from the original. If something is known but not generally accessible then you don't have an immediate comparison (like Maverick). That might give you a bit more leeway. If something is well known and still widely accessible (like Star Trek) then it can be more contentious. The Mission: Impossible films are popular even though some (like me) don't care at all for them.
A newer generation can be more receptive to new casts in established roles, but for some older viewers it could be quite hit-and-miss (unless it's so crap that everyone young and old alike hates it).
Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer and John Banner were those characters. And not just for one barely remembered season, but for six years. And the show was rerun extensively during the '70s and later.
Now upthread I did say that watching the film Monuments Men did remind me somewhat of HH in overall sensibility, but then again it was a cast of new original characters rather than recasting someone familiar and well established.
As always it would be a matter of casting, writing and overall execution. But I seriously doubt a reboot could bring anything new to it.
There's actually a lot of Whose Line? actors who would fit:
Klink: Colin Mochrie
Hochstetter: Greg Proops
Schultz: Mike McShane
Hogan: Chip Esten
Kinchloe: Wayne Brady
Carter: Brad Sherwood
Crittendon: Tony Slattery or possibly John Sessions
Gen. Burkhalter: See above
Lebeau: Jeff Davis
Frau Linkmeyer: Josie Lawrence
Newkirk: ... ok, I got nothin' on that one.
Klink: Colin Mochrie
Hochstetter: Greg Proops
Schultz: Mike McShane
Hogan: Chip Esten
Kinchloe: Wayne Brady
Carter: Brad Sherwood
Crittendon: Tony Slattery or possibly John Sessions
Gen. Burkhalter: See above
Lebeau: Jeff Davis
Frau Linkmeyer: Josie Lawrence
Newkirk: ... ok, I got nothin' on that one.
If you're using Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, and Wayne Brady ...There's actually a lot of Whose Line? actors who would fit:
Klink: Colin Mochrie
Hochstetter: Greg Proops
Schultz: Mike McShane
Hogan: Chip Esten
Kinchloe: Wayne Brady
Carter: Brad Sherwood
Crittendon: Tony Slattery or possibly John Sessions
Gen. Burkhalter: See above
Lebeau: Jeff Davis
Frau Linkmeyer: Josie Lawrence
Newkirk: ... ok, I got nothin' on that one.
Schultz: Drew Carey
Hogan: Diedrich Bader(
)Carter: Ryan Stiles
Newkirk: Craig Ferguson
Frau What's-her-name: Kathy Kinney(
) Ok, maybe not for a reboot. But definitely for a one-shot special.
There's actually a lot of Whose Line? actors who would fit:
Klink: Colin Mochrie
Hochstetter: Greg Proops
Schultz: Mike McShane
Hogan: Chip Esten
Kinchloe: Wayne Brady
Carter: Brad Sherwood
Crittendon: Tony Slattery or possibly John Sessions
Gen. Burkhalter: See above
Lebeau: Jeff Davis
Frau Linkmeyer: Josie Lawrence
Newkirk: ... ok, I got nothin' on that one.
I managed to not know a single one of those people.
Ditto.There's actually a lot of Whose Line? actors who would fit:
Klink: Colin Mochrie
Hochstetter: Greg Proops
Schultz: Mike McShane
Hogan: Chip Esten
Kinchloe: Wayne Brady
Carter: Brad Sherwood
Crittendon: Tony Slattery or possibly John Sessions
Gen. Burkhalter: See above
Lebeau: Jeff Davis
Frau Linkmeyer: Josie Lawrence
Newkirk: ... ok, I got nothin' on that one.
I managed to not know a single one of those people.
^ Never seen Whose Line Is It Anyway?, have we?
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I'm surprised you don't recall Ryan Stiles as well, since they're practically joined at the hip. 
As for a HH series today? Probably wouldn't happen, and if it did, there would probably be too strong a desire for them to make it dark and gritty.
As for a HH series today? Probably wouldn't happen, and if it did, there would probably be too strong a desire for them to make it dark and gritty.
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Yep. It's hard to find the right balance of comedy and drama. HH was certainly a comedy, but there were enough elements of drama to make it stick. Most comedies today are overly goofy, and they last a handful of episodes and get cancelled. Don't get me wrong, I like goofy, but it has to be done right, and only when the situation calls for it.
A reboot would probably be played absolutely straight, as if it were a serious drama. I'm not sure that would work.
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That would be terrible. A Hogan's Heroes movie played like a straight war movie would miss the point of the series entirely.
Didn't the series Alice start out as a serious drama? The original movie it was based on, anyway.
People have forgotten when Mel Brooks said of laughing at Hitler. Engaging Hitler in ideology means you think him an equal. If you laugh at him, however, you rise above him.
For a slightly more serious take on the subject watch "Stalag 17". William Holden is great as the main POW - he won an Academy award and Otto Preminger as the commandant and Sig Ruman as Sgt Schultz are also topnotch. A young Peter Graves is one of the POW's...
Great film, indeed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKc2GJk2OLQ
