Shall We Play A Game... Again?
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Remakes and Sequels
This isn't the first time the world has been threatened by a sequel to the 1983 Matthew Broderick vehicle and quintessential 80s flick War Games. Way back in June of 2005 it was reported here on Cinematical that a film called War Games II: The Deadly Key was in the works. Obviously that project was nuked back into the stone-age, and the notion of developing a War Games franchise was set aside.Once again, though, the idea of a sequel has reared its head, and with shooting scheduled to begin in Montreal, Canada this November, it looks like this one will actually get made. Stuart Gillard (with many television credits and the direction of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III to his name) will helmWar Games 2: The Dead Game, from a screenplay by Randall M. Badat (whose most recent feature credit on IMDB is the 1993 film Hear No Evil). Anyone feeling hopeful about this yet? The storyline, according to Production Weekly, follows a teenage hacker "whose world gets turned upside after playing an online terrorist-attack simulator game against a government super-computer designed to profile potential terrorists. All hell breaks loose when Homeland Security is convinced that he's a terrorist intent on disrupting the fabric of society." While the story has been updated to reflect a modern awareness of terrorist threats, the basic premise sounds more like a remake than a sequel.
Call me cynical, but how can this be a good idea? War Games was successful in its day, but does the title really carry enough clout to warrant any interest from the general public? No word on a release date, but the smart money says this is going straight to DVD.
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10-03-2006 @ 9:28AM
Danno said...
Man, there are just *no* enemies like the Ruskies.
Pfft, terrorist attacks. We used to be threatened by Global Thermonuclear War, the end of all life on the planet Earth as we knew it! Everybody dies.
Seriously, killing several thousand people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage just doesn't compare.
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10-03-2006 @ 10:04AM
Spoonman said...
Who knows, Peter Jackson's claim to fame prior to the ring was "Meet the Feebles". He stepped up to the plate, huh?
Yeah, I doubt it, too. T2 is the only sequel I can think of that was as good as the origional. We need to stop going to these things, it's the only way they're going to learn we're tired of their stale crap. Unfortunately, the majority of people ain't too bright, and they're the ones that are happy to hand over all of their hard-earned money on stuff like this.
I loved Wargames. Since I was a young hacker back in the day when this came out, it's one of my favorite movies. Back then, it didn't matter how "fake" it all was, it was as close as we could get to glorifying our "lifestyle". :) There's too little of a chance that any sequel will not be an abomination.
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10-03-2006 @ 11:13AM
heyleland said...
Actually, Peter Jackson's claim to fame was the excellent "Heavenly Creatures." His mockumentary, "Forgotten Silver," (made for New Zealand TV) was also widely admired by those who were able to see it.
As for sequels as good as the original, I would add "Godfather Part II" and "Toy Story 2." The crucial ingredients present in both were: creative control by the same team that made the first movie, and less than 5 years between the original and the sequel. Take away either of those elements and you have, well, "Godfather 3" or "Jaws 2."
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10-03-2006 @ 7:54PM
Joseph Scott said...
WarGames was a fun movie back in the day. Please don't ruin it by making another.
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11-22-2006 @ 3:14PM
damion said...
it was a good reveiw and a good movie
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