Another remake: Bad News Bears (d: Linklater)
 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ar_04_292004_1

More 'Bad News' for Par 04/29/2004

Wed Apr 28, 8:00 PM ET

Dave McNary, STAFF

HOLLYWOOD -- Paramount Pictures wants to go to bat again with "The Bad News Bears," setting up a remake with Billy Bob Thornton starring and Geyer Kosinski producing.

Project will reteam Thornton with "Bad Santa" writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa as Par signed the scripting duo to a seven-figure deal based on their pitch for an updated remake of the studio's 1976 comedy, which starred Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. Par exec VP Ally Shearmur will oversee for the studio.

The original "Bears," directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster, was a solid performer for Paramount with $32 million in domestic gross. It spawned a pair of sequels, "The Bad News Bears in Japan" and "The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training." Original pic cast Matthau as a beer-chugging manager coaching a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive Little League.

Thornton's turn as an alcoholic Santa in "Bad Santa" generated both outrage and solid B.O. for Dimension, with domestic cume topping $60 million. Ficarra and Requa are attached to write and direct GreeneStreet Films' comedy "Jack Tucker" with Woody Harrelson starring.

The deal for "The Bad News Bears" is the latest move by Par to develop updated remakes from successful titles in its massive library. Its update of "The Italian Job" was its most successful 2003 release; its upcoming major releases this year -- "Stepford Wives," "The Manchurian Candidate" and "What's It All About Alfie" -- are all contemporary remakes.

In addition, Paramount is co-financing "The Longest Yard" redo with Sony as a major 2005 release, and the studio is developing remakes of "The War of the Worlds," "Pet Sematary," "The Warriors," "It Takes a Thief," "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud" and "Seconds."

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I guess Paramount creative execs have nothing creative in their own heads.

Perhaps Hillary Duff can play the Tatum O'Neal role :rolleyes:

-ohbfrank-

wasn't this already remade as hardball with Keanu Reeves?

Wasn't this movie remade and called "The Mighty Ducks"?

re: Another remake: Bad News Bears (d: Linklater)
 

NOOOOOOOOO

To be honest, Billy Bob Thornton as a baseball coach sounds pretty funny to me.

I've never seen the original bad news bears though, so I have no idea what this is all about.

I was expecting the remake to have a happy ending, but with Billy Bob and the writers of Bad Santa on board, who knows. We might even have an R-rated comedy on our hands here (but Paramount probably won't let that happen).

I might go see a BNB remake. Sounds fun.

Expect cute kids.

Tanner won't be racist anymore.

And a PG.

Have I mentioned I hate Hollywood?

This is so stupid. There's no need to remake TBNB, since virtually every sports movie has the same theme: a ragtag team of losers slowly learn the benefits of cooperation and surprise everyone by making it to The Big Game, gaining some self-respect along the way. It's been done to death.

-ohbfrank- Oh great... thanks alot. :mad: Next time use spoiler tags.

Who knows? I don't think Billy Bob and the writers of Bad Santa can get a PG. Did you see Bad Santa? Hard R rated material in that movie. Who knows, it might be good. I'll wait to see the flick before I make any judgements. Hell, I thought the Dawn of the Dead remake was going to suck and look how that one turned out.

But what makes The Bad News Bears stand out is:

Even worse? :)

Seriously, there's no way a BAD NEWS BEARS remake will be R.

Paramount has, and always will, think of this as a kiddie franchise.

Read the Biskind book, DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES for a smidge more insight into the BAD SANTA production.

And this time ................................

Who knows... Hardball had the R rating until Paramount decided to edit the flick to PG-13 at the last minute.

Well, there you go....

It won't be R.

I guess it's the movies turn to go down the toilet as far as creative original art goes.
Of course you know music went 1st in the 90's when Rap started to rule to this day.

;)

BAD NEWS BEARS remake script review
 

Not comprehensive, but something for the curious...

Film Jerk

Review

Interesting. Seems like a pointless remake. I have serious doubts that any remake will ultimately include the kind of crass humor of the original. Those great lines and scenes of drinking beer might be in the script, but I bet much of that gets cut for the release for a lower rating.

Anything in there about "spics, Jews, ******s, retards, and a booger-eating spaz", or is that going to be cleansed so it's on the level of Mighty Ducks?