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 smug arrogant mug, it'll be like:

Hollywood De-Aging Scotty Programmer: "Studio executive, I'm giving his face all 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

 

[Captaindemotion]

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.

The book is pretty good. But when it comes to adapting it to film, it is hard to ignore the passage of time and the deaths of Kilmer and Tom Sizemore. I guess they can just recast but those are pretty iconic actors and roles to recast (was Kilmer ever any better than he was in Heat?). I keep trying to imagine if they’d decided to make Godfather Part 2 in the early 2000s, with Pacino, Duvall etc now too old for their roles and John Cazale having died.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Grand CGI Tarkin worked, I guess.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

I keep trying to imagine if they’d decided to make Godfather Part 2 in the early 2000s, with Pacino, Duvall etc now too old for their roles and John Cazale having died.

Considering The Godfather Part 2, maybe they should simply recast with younger actors instead of de-aging the old ones. After all, DeNiro himself played a younger version of Marlon Brando' s character. Imagine they had de-aging back then, they would likely have had Brando reprise his role.

 

[Jayson Poorknees]

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

That's true but I am thinking that they might be thinking that the tech has improved since then so they won't have that issue again.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Jim Carrey seems to old for the role. I wonder if they are going to do something were the kids are now adults and the adults are older. Maybe focus on Elroy going to high school. Meanwhile Judy is a movie star who has come home for a visit. George is retired and bored. Jane is famous because of a blog. Mr Spacely was fired and is living with them because he has lost all his money. Astro lounges around like a old dog likes to do. Rosey has replaced her robot looking body for one that looks human.

Turn replacement Rosie into one of the sexy robots as seen on the cover of Heavy Metal or Omni. Make George gawk like Fred Flintstone does. Instant C plot hijinks from Jim Carrey.

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[tharpdevenport]

They can make The Jetsons film trailer like the film trailer for the 1998 Lost in Space:

Scary future stuff, Jerry Goldsmith's trailer music for Judge Dredd, big Large Marge-style Rosie the Robot (that'll show the kids for not cleaning up after themselves!).

 

[Captaindemotion]

Considering The Godfather Part 2, maybe they should simply recast with younger actors instead of de-aging the old ones. After all, DeNiro himself played a younger version of Marlon Brando' s character. Imagine they had de-aging back then, they would likely have had Brando reprise his role.

I tend to agree. I’m not sure who they’d cast but as this is Michael Mann directing, rather than the sort of hacks who used to direct belated sequels with a whole new cast (think High Noon 2, Splash Too or Scarlett), I trust him to get it right. Though there aren’t too many young DeNiros out there!

I kinda think Austin Butler might be a good fit for Chris (Kilmer). I guess the guy who played young Pacino in The Offer (another Godfather link!) might be an obvious choice, though if they were more interested in just capturing the energy of Pacino’s performance than having a lookalike, I can imagine Christian Bale recreating his OTT shouty performance.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Not just too old, but he doesn't particularly strike me as a good fit for the father figure. I think it needs to be a younger actor in his mid 40's who would believable as someone with a young family. Maybe someone like Colin Hanks, who seems to be looking more and more like his father the older he gets. He strikes me as a much better fit than Jim Carrey.

Ryan Reynolds? Anson Mount? Chris Pratt?

 

[The Salt Umpire]

I could see Jason Sudeikis in the role.

No one from recent SNL, please.

 

[Owain Taggart]

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.

Yeah, I think even with the Flinstones they went back and added more episodes, and I think it's because they proved really popular. Then there were also the other animated movies such as The Jetsons Meet The Flinstones. That one was fun.

Ryan Reynolds? Anson Mount? Chris Pratt?

Ryan Reynolds and Anson Mount might be Ok, but keep Pratt far away. Leave him be mauled by Dinos.

 

[Set Harth]

Grand CGI Tarkin worked, I guess.

The person I saw it with thought it was an actor.