WarGames Follow-Ups: If at First You Don't Succeed, Try Again?
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I thought we'd already been through this... The initial rumors and first word of a WarGames sequel, the silence followed by the inevitable continuation of the project, and the ill-reviewed and mostly ignored result. But this is Hollywood, and at least they doggedly stick to their try and try again mentality, and this time, there's a good chance that this won't be an ignorable project.While Production Weekly is subscriber-only, they have a Twitter feed that shares little morsels of news, like the following report: "Leonardo DiCaprio looking to reboot the 80's thriller "War Games" at MGM." Yes, move over Matt Lanter, Leo wants to to do his own take on WarGames. But this won't be a sequel, this will be one of those dreaded reboots. First Ralph Maccio gets replaced with Jaden Smith, now Matthew Broderick will be replaced with ... I shudder to think.
I'm not sure how WarGames re-dos fit into a professional life busy with acting gigs like Beat the Reaper and production gigs like Akira, but maybe this is only the first breaths of a project that will fall into development hell. Oh, how I hope. But how about you? Are you super-excited to see WarGames rebooted?
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2-17-2009 @ 9:52AM
Schwacker said...
Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.....
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2-17-2009 @ 11:35AM
Astin said...
Is Shia LeBouf too old to play Broderick's role now? Because that's who they'd get... sadly.
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2-17-2009 @ 12:21PM
Blake said...
Come on, just re-release the original in the theater!
As a re-boot the premise of this movie will make so sense to the people watching it today. In the 80's people were afraid of nuclear war, this is why this movie was good. What are they going to be afraid of now... terrorists... the economy??? Come on. Another movie I will not see. If the original one was in the theater again I would go see that one!
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2-17-2009 @ 1:43PM
Chris said...
Why are reboots "dreaded?" Batman Begins? Casino Royale? Star Trek? The only less-than-stellar ones I can think of are Friday the 13th and Superman.
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2-17-2009 @ 1:41PM
LordPaul said...
I thought the DTV sequel was pretty cool the way it linked to the first film.
Nothing amazing but loyal to the source & there was a decent premise.
A reboot would be pointless
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2-23-2009 @ 9:47PM
Gerry said...
MORE re-dos and re-boots???
C'mon Hollywood.... can't you do any better??
Time to stop hiring your moron nephews and nieces with no talent and hire some REAL WRITERS again....
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2-18-2009 @ 9:58AM
ML said...
No.
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