Why Don't we have a Jigglypuff Movie Yet?
THAT needs to be made. The Most original idea ever.
It's better than anything else Hollywood can come up with today anyway.
Posted on 05/10/2014 7:46:18 AM PDT by Perdogg
These days, reboots are all the rage in film. Now it’s believed that Fast & Furious director Justin Lin has his eyes set on a Lethal Weapon reboot. If that news isn’t exciting on its own, then it’s who he has his sights set on that should really be the talk of the industry.
The Tracking Board reports that Lin wants none other than Thor’s Chris Hemsworth to take the lead role in the upcoming reboot for Lethal Weapon. As some of you may or should know, Australian actor Mel Gibson took the title role of Martin Riggs, and it looks like Aussie native Chris Hemsworth may follow in his footsteps.
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Reboots also draw renewed interest in the original videos.
In music, cover versions of songs paid off for the producers who owned the publishing on the old material. All sorts of 1920s material hit the charts in the 1950s “rock and roll boom”.
Blueberry Hill
You Can Keep On Knockin’
Are You Lonesome Tonight
etc.
You are not missing anything -unless I win a huge lottery and blow it all making my masterpiece sci-fi epic “Rosebud”
The remake I’d Dredd was horrid, the remake or whatever that was of a Terminator was dreadful....
I had people stand slackjawed staring at me when I told them I’d never seen Avatar.
Then they admitted that they’d seen it in 3-D on a big screen, etc. and really don’t think it’d play well on a television.
So much for timeless stories.
I haven’t been in a theater since I was a kid
There’s a nice one at the local museum. Sometimes they even show something I’d want to see (when they aren’t busy pushing the Latin film festival, the gay film festival, the Palestinian film festival, and the Iranian film festival.
You’d think I’m joking but I’m not.
They should hire unknowns and try new things with smaller budgets then.
I totally believe it
The characterizations in the second Judge Dredd film were much better than the first (Dredd in name only, that one was) but the story was weak.
They have a LONG history they could draw from. They have epic tales but scaled it back to people sweeping a locked down tower. Yawn.
Robocop borrowed from the Judge Dredd world. So did Road Warrior.
Speaking of which, there is another Mad Max film (taking place between number 2 and 3) due soon.
I hope they don’t mess it up!
Btw there was an 80s anime, cleaned up for US kids, that would make a pretty good live action movie. The evil bad guy was a tranny or something. Heh. US version was “Battle Of The Planets”.
Yeah. Judge Dredd was awful. Terminator Salvation was like RoboCop ... I only rented that and found it watchable, but I would have felt ripped off seeing it in a theater.
It was just called “Dredd” I think
Oh my gosh....nothing is original. You are right....Dang it. Not a great movie either (current).
Yeah. It was. And aptly named too ... :-)
I think Thundercats screams for a live action movie adaptation, don’t you?
Instead they’re doing Chip N Dale’sRescue Rangers
They felt that “thunder, thunder, thundercats! Ho!” was sexist.
I like Chris Hemsworth in the right role, but as Riggs? FAIL. Mel Gibson was so convincing in the role because you believed him as a crazy man!! LOL!
Considering aspects of the “DuckTales” stories were pilfered from Carl Barks’ comic stories from the 1940s and 50s, the remakes have been going on for quite some time. And they never improve on the originals.
Why Don't we have a Jigglypuff Movie Yet?
THAT needs to be made. The Most original idea ever.
It's better than anything else Hollywood can come up with today anyway.
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