The folks over at Moviehole are speaking with American Reunion helmers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg regarding the two-year deal they’ve just signed with Universal. A truth nugget that gives cause for concern:
“We want Back to the Future, just come out and say it”, Hurwitz nudges Scholssberg into admitting. “That’s our favourite trilogy. We’re always having this conversation…”
Continues Hurwitz, “There’s an influence in this movie and the Harold and Kumar movies in the sense that I remember, we both remember loving Back to the Future, and the second one coming out, and just feeling the excitement of seeing it, and people can debate and argue how good it is and everything but that’s what I love about franchises and sequels is, “Oh my God, it’s coming out.” So for us American Pie Reunion, it’s… If it’s a fraction of the excitement of what that was, that’s the kind of movie going experience that we like, we like to try to get.”
They go on to say that their take, if given the go-ahead, would most likely be sequel rather than reboot. I’d like to think Universal is protective enough of one of their prized properties so as to not let this happen (especially without Zemeckis) – But they know there’s still money to be wrung from this franchise (as evidenced here, here and here). And a Back to the Future film, in one form or another, seems not just plausible but altogether likely at some point.
Honestly, I would love if Back to the Future is where the line was drawn in franchise rebootqueling. But these aren’t beloved franchises to studios; they’re intellectual properties that can be exploited for the bottom line. What bugs me about the above Hurwitz and Schlossberg quote isn’t that they want to make it, but that nowhere do they mention they have an idea that’ll make a great film. The dudes just like anticipating sequels.
The original trilogy ends at an emotionally satisfying place. If you’re revisiting it you’re doing it because there’s money to be made. Just say that instead.
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Please don’t = Of course they will.
Holy hell. Please no. Please. I don’t want to have to ignore an abomination. Just leave it be. Even with huge flaws, I love this trilogy completely. Dammit.
If this happens, it will be the first reboot to make me genuinely angry. It’s less necessary than Indiana Jones 4 was.
Animate it. I don’t know why Hollywood hasn’t figured this out yet. Another BTTF? Ghostbusters 3? Animate it. You open up so many possibilities story-wise and the costs are cheaper than live action, and the actors don’t have to lose weight, dye their hair or anything. Also, you don’t get the Indy 4 stigma, and if it sucks it can be more easily dismissed. Many have said if Indy 4 was CG and was the same as Tin Tin, it’d been huge. The CG cutscenes in the Ghostbusters game looked awesome.
Oh man, this is Transformers Gen 1 all over again. The only questions is which form will the raping of mine childhood take place? Gen 2? Beast Wars? Energon? Michael Bay-verse (John Turturro as Doc Brown)? Where they’re going, they’re going to need….roads. With spikes. Oil slicks. Godzillas (plural).
In actual fact, there’s no way a reboot/remake is going to make a huge amount of money. The BTTF fans are going to fucking hate it without the original players (Zemeckis, Fox, Lloyd) and the backlash and constant negativity will pretty much sink it. Not even Universal are THAT stupid to go there.
Never underestimate the stupidity of Universal:
Psycho remake….really?
What they did to Brazil
Howard the Duck
Firing Orson Welles from Touch of Evil
Any American Werewolf… movie other than …in London (Julie Delpy not withstanding)
and finally this headline:
Guillermo del Toro’s Lovecraft adaptation cancelled
If it’s Harold and Kumar in tone, then it’s a spoof. If it’s American Piefucker in tone, then it’s some form of atrocity. At least they’ll have George McFly’s peeping tom-ism nailed. Maybe Marty gives him an iPad full of porn and he’s never born because George masturbates himself into a coma and misses the big dance. But then then he fucks his own mum and becomes his own dad! Hilarity!
“Many have said if Indy 4 was CG and was the same as Tin Tin, it’d been huge.”
Um, it was huge. It made $317 million domestic and $786 million worldwide.
What’s next a Robocop reboot? YOU ARE SKULL FUCKING MY CHILDRAPE!
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