Can't be as bad as what Little Orphan Annie eventually became over the years. Harold Gray is spinning in his grave over that one! If ANY damn franchise needs a "reboot" that wipes the slate completely clean and goes back to the ORIGINAL source material, its that one. As if the FDR worship in the Broadway musical weren't enough, they blackwashed Annie in the latest version (cuz "diversity") and set the story in "modern times"
Personally, I would like to see "modernized" versions of Charlie Chan and MASH (both are LONG overdue for a "reboot" and haven't been relevant to pop culture for years). But, knowing the current climate of the "entertainment industry", I have no doubt they'd ruin those. So we should probably be thankful it hasn't happened.
Interesting trivia: the 1984 film "Graystoke" rebooted Tarzan franchise after the laughable Bo Derek remake. It "went back to the source material" and received critical acclaim after decades of campy, ridiculous Tarzan movies. And that was long before Nolan's annoying Batman movies made the "Reboot" craze popular. It also meant that Graystoke was a stand alone movie. It had been done now, it would have launched a dozen more movies set in the same universe.
This December, they are going to try a THIRD attempt to adapt DUNE on screen, which is considered to be the "Lord of the Rings" of sci-fi franchises. Obviously, the previous 1984 and 2000 adaptations didn't reach a big audience. I'm very curious about the new one. We'll all praying on the internet they don't infest it with SJW propaganda.
I’d have worked with the Blannie (Black Annie) idea. Set it in Baltimore during Zero’s regime, where this scrappy young orphan exposes the epic-level Demonrat corruption of the city that leads all the way to Zero himself, and he goes to prison. An epic chase scene through Baltimore to D.C. where she’s attempting to be whacked by Loretta Lynch, Elijah Cummings and John Lewis for trying to break the deathgrip the Dem party has on the Black community.
She’s then rescued and adopted by an up-and-coming Presidential candidate named Donald Trump and goes to live in the White House and helps lead uprisings across the nation by the Black community against corrupt, entrenched Demonrat machines and eventually becomes the first Black woman President, Annie Trump.