Hot take: this movie is actually **ripe ** for a reboot/re-imagining. You could really lean into the "impossible white man" action hero trope and dissect the psyche of the kind of person who actually finds that fantasy appealing.
If they do reboot it they should really cast against type. Not a young muscular action star but rather someone at the tail end of middle age you could see working a dead end unfulfilling white collar job who's probably thought more than once about coming in with a semi auto and going full joker. Think Michael Douglas in Falling Down. I'd suggest Bob Odenkirk but "Nobody" kinda ruined that one.
Yeah, I commented on this in another thread...the 2012 remake has genuinely got to be one of the most shallow and forgettable movies ever produced. It really has absolutely nothing to say or do with the premise, at all. The Robocop reboot is also a failure...but I do feel like there was some kind of an attempt there that was stymied by the studio.
Hot take: this movie is actually **ripe ** for a reboot/re-imagining. You could really lean into the "impossible white man" action hero trope and dissect the psyche of the kind of person who actually finds that fantasy appealing.
If they do reboot it they should really cast against type. Not a young muscular action star but rather someone at the tail end of middle age you could see working a dead end unfulfilling white collar job who's probably thought more than once about coming in with a semi auto and going full joker. Think Michael Douglas in Falling Down. I'd suggest Bob Odenkirk but "Nobody" kinda ruined that one.
Lmao they already remade it in 2012! Robocop too around the same time.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/
Yeah, I commented on this in another thread...the 2012 remake has genuinely got to be one of the most shallow and forgettable movies ever produced. It really has absolutely nothing to say or do with the premise, at all. The Robocop reboot is also a failure...but I do feel like there was some kind of an attempt there that was stymied by the studio.
i watched it like 2 nights ago to remember how bad it was and boy, its bad