The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[oktay]

Without achieving movie-poster credit-status. Did he get dialogue moments in each?

In one she played Gamora's childhood and in the other she played Ahsoka's childhood. So yes

 

[Owain Taggart]

This isn't related to the topic, but I still have a question: In a time when Hollywood actors are chosen based on their Instagram followers, I'm curious how someone like Rachel Zegler, who only has 2.5 million Instagram subscribers and every movie she stars in flops at the box office, continues to land major roles. The same goes for Ariana Greenblatt and Colman Domingo.

I mean, it can simply be down to them being rising stars. But yeah, you would think that after an increasing amount of flops, that star power would diminish. Which makes me think it's all in who you know.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Heat 2 might use de-ageing techniques. I guess that could work for Pacino & DeNiro, assuming that the technology has improved since The Irishman, but I can’t see how they can do anything other than recast Kilmer’s character: https://variety.com/2025/film/global/michael-mann-ai-in-heat-2-aging-de-aging-1236556078/

 

[137th Gebirg]

This all feels more and more like a really bad idea. The original Heat was the perfect movie with the perfect ending for all the characters. If they wanted to do a reboot, I suppose I could get behind it, but a sequel using de-aging for all the dead characters in flashbacks, and where one of the few remaining living main characters was played by an actor who died IRL, just seems a fool’s errand.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Lord, with DeNiro's ugly mug, it'll be like:

Hollywood De-Aging Scotty Programmer: "Studio executive, I'm giving his face al the de-aging technology she's got! If I give it anymore, the computer will melt down! I cannot change the laws of physics!"

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Part of the problem with The Irishman was that DeNiro still moved like an old man.

 

[Cicero]

^Huh? It predates the 1990's by 3 decades. It came out in the 1960's. So much of what inspired The Jetsons was the 60's outlook on the future. I assume you mean the animated movie rather than the TV series.

Strangely, most episodes of The Jetsons were actually made in the late 80s. There were twenty-four episodes in 1962, forty-one in 1985, and ten in 1987.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Part of the problem with The Irishman was that DeNiro still moved like an old man.

Yeah, definitely. They’d probably need to perfect superimposing his face on a younger actor or stuntman’s body. TBF, the opening sequence of the last Indiana Jones film seemed to show that it can be done.

 

[Set Harth]

Part of the problem with The Irishman was that DeNiro still moved like an old man.

The scene where he 'beats up' the grocer was totally ridiculous