Submitted 1 week ago by UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk to movies@lemm.ee
https://www.darkhorizons.com/chitty-chitty-bang-bang-reboot-in-works/
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.
I think the problem is that they won’t just remake it, they’ll rape its corpse and exploit it for profit rather than making a good movie that’s based on the same idea.
Shove a few hot button social issues in there too.
I fucking called it years ago. I knew they would be bankrupt enough to reach that far into the bin. I literally can’t think of anything more embarrassing.
There are thousands of amazing novels they could pull new material from, but instead they just keep rebooting stuff, and making sequels & prequels because they perceive it as safer. Then they complain that nobody wants to go to the theater anymore.
Considering the author, I think the one update I want to see Desmond Llewelyn (deepfake unfortunately) reveal Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with it’s features, and have Judi Dench explain why it needs to be brought back in one piece (with clear resignation of the knowledge that it won’t happen)
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.
Yeah, this particular type of remake has been done for almost a hundred years. Nothing to get too worked up about, though even as a kid I wasn’t interested in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Even for the rest of it, I’m at a point where I will just take these things on their own merits. Sometimes the creative hijackers who do their own story under cover of an existing property sometimes make something watchable (e.g. Foundation), and for most of the rest they were working with a property unlikely to inspire anything brilliant in the first place (e.g. Halo, which as a non-player still isn’t that bad… just “meh” with too big a budget).
People want to tell stories. I’ll watch as many of the good stories as I can make time for.
I was very disappointed in Foundation, specifically because it was some janky drama about people in the shell of the original story. The original story is about concepts that span thousands of years.
It needs to be done entirely with this vibe:
why? Cars dont sound like that anymore
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They could have Dick Van Dyke reprise his role. He’s 98 but would probably be up for it. Maybe he shouldn’t drive this time though.
cmbabul@lemmy.world 1 week ago
At this point I’m pretty sure Dick Van Dyke claimed unlife. He seemed ancient when he guest starred in Scrubs
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s the only reason I’d consider watching it.