The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
05-15-13 | 10:35 AM
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05-23-13 | 11:38 AM
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/...d-bunch-remake
Will Smith lassoes lead role in The Wild Bunch remake
Actor confirmed for update of Sam Peckinpah's iconic film, reportedly featuring DEA agent on tail of Mexican drug baron
Will Smith is set to star in a modern-day remake of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's classic tale of a gang of ageing outlaws organising one last heist in the dying days of the American old west, reports the Wrap.
A new version of Peckinpah's iconic western has been gestating in Hollywood for almost a decade. The late British director Tony Scott was at one point tipped to direct, with End of Watch's David Ayer having previously been in the hot seat. The latter's idea for a contemporary remake set in Mexico and featuring firefights between CIA agents and drug cartels appears to have survived the long pre-production process. The new take is said to follow a disgraced DEA agent who assembles a team to go after a Mexican drug lord and his fortune.
Smith would presumably play the DEA agent, and the Wrap says studio Warner Bros would look to surround him with a strong ensemble. However, it's not clear at this stage how the new Wild Bunch would connect to its celebrated predecessor, other than via the title. Peckinpah's film, which starred William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and Warren Oates, presented a torrid paean to a more dangerous time when lawmen and criminals were often separated by circumstance alone. The titular Bunch were members of a gang eking out a living on the Tex-Mex border in 1913 as the old west segues into civilised 20th-century modernity.
In many ways the remake would be Smith's first proper western, the actor having previously appeared only in the comedy Wild Wild West. Quentin Tarantino initially wanted him for his Oscar-winning spaghetti western homage Django Unchained, but Smith was concerned that the role of Django was not a genuine lead, and the part went to Jamie Foxx instead.
Will Smith lassoes lead role in The Wild Bunch remake
Actor confirmed for update of Sam Peckinpah's iconic film, reportedly featuring DEA agent on tail of Mexican drug baron
Will Smith is set to star in a modern-day remake of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's classic tale of a gang of ageing outlaws organising one last heist in the dying days of the American old west, reports the Wrap.
A new version of Peckinpah's iconic western has been gestating in Hollywood for almost a decade. The late British director Tony Scott was at one point tipped to direct, with End of Watch's David Ayer having previously been in the hot seat. The latter's idea for a contemporary remake set in Mexico and featuring firefights between CIA agents and drug cartels appears to have survived the long pre-production process. The new take is said to follow a disgraced DEA agent who assembles a team to go after a Mexican drug lord and his fortune.
Smith would presumably play the DEA agent, and the Wrap says studio Warner Bros would look to surround him with a strong ensemble. However, it's not clear at this stage how the new Wild Bunch would connect to its celebrated predecessor, other than via the title. Peckinpah's film, which starred William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and Warren Oates, presented a torrid paean to a more dangerous time when lawmen and criminals were often separated by circumstance alone. The titular Bunch were members of a gang eking out a living on the Tex-Mex border in 1913 as the old west segues into civilised 20th-century modernity.
In many ways the remake would be Smith's first proper western, the actor having previously appeared only in the comedy Wild Wild West. Quentin Tarantino initially wanted him for his Oscar-winning spaghetti western homage Django Unchained, but Smith was concerned that the role of Django was not a genuine lead, and the part went to Jamie Foxx instead.
05-23-13 | 12:01 PM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/...d-bunch-remake
Will Smith lassoes lead role in The Wild Bunch remake
Actor confirmed for update of Sam Peckinpah's iconic film, reportedly featuring DEA agent on tail of Mexican drug baron
Will Smith is set to star in a modern-day remake of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's classic tale of a gang of ageing outlaws organising one last heist in the dying days of the American old west, reports the Wrap.
A new version of Peckinpah's iconic western has been gestating in Hollywood for almost a decade. The late British director Tony Scott was at one point tipped to direct, with End of Watch's David Ayer having previously been in the hot seat. The latter's idea for a contemporary remake set in Mexico and featuring firefights between CIA agents and drug cartels appears to have survived the long pre-production process. The new take is said to follow a disgraced DEA agent who assembles a team to go after a Mexican drug lord and his fortune.
Smith would presumably play the DEA agent...
Will Smith lassoes lead role in The Wild Bunch remake
Actor confirmed for update of Sam Peckinpah's iconic film, reportedly featuring DEA agent on tail of Mexican drug baron
Will Smith is set to star in a modern-day remake of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's classic tale of a gang of ageing outlaws organising one last heist in the dying days of the American old west, reports the Wrap.
A new version of Peckinpah's iconic western has been gestating in Hollywood for almost a decade. The late British director Tony Scott was at one point tipped to direct, with End of Watch's David Ayer having previously been in the hot seat. The latter's idea for a contemporary remake set in Mexico and featuring firefights between CIA agents and drug cartels appears to have survived the long pre-production process. The new take is said to follow a disgraced DEA agent who assembles a team to go after a Mexican drug lord and his fortune.
Smith would presumably play the DEA agent...
05-23-13 | 12:12 PM
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05-23-13 | 01:32 PM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
The problem with a modern Wild Bunch is that by making it modern you take away everything that the original movie was about. It's a movie about bandits with an outdated value system and the modern world (our modern world) that they all know is creeping up on them to end their way of life. If you make the film take place in that modern world then what is creeping up?
They probably won't even attempt to make it have any subtext anyway. It will just be a fist pumping bunch of bullshit.
They probably won't even attempt to make it have any subtext anyway. It will just be a fist pumping bunch of bullshit.
05-23-13 | 01:40 PM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
So this will be PG-13 and all the violence that made the original great will be cut out?
05-23-13 | 01:42 PM
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05-23-13 | 02:20 PM
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Can we say "The Wild, Wild West"? Is his son going to be in this one? Or his daughter? I wouldn't be surprised. This is just so f**ked up.
05-23-13 | 06:11 PM
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What sucks is that they'll probably turn the Bunch into good guys. The whole point of The Wild Bunch was that they were all bad guys and you were rooting for them.
05-23-13 | 06:20 PM
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I don't like remakes, I don't like Will Smith and I LOVE Same Peckinpah.
I'll be passing on this.
I'll be passing on this.
05-23-13 | 06:20 PM
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09-24-18 | 04:38 PM
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The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson has been set by Warner Bros to direct The Wild Bunch, a new version of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah-directed classic Western. Gibson is writing the script with Bryan Bagby. Gibson will be executive producer.
In The Wild Bunch, an aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the traditional American West is disappearing around them and the industrial age is taking over. They are pursued by a posse led by a former partner they double crossed. Peckinpah wrote the script with Walon Green. The original starred Wiliam Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez and Ben Johnson.
The film was originally considered exceptionally violent, but it later came to be considered a stylistic masterpiece. Warner Bros has tried several times to mount a remake, but it seems in good hands with Gibson. From Best Picture winner Braveheart to films like Apocalypto and the recent Best Picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson has distinguished himself as one of the best directors of action working in the business.
Gibson will continue to prep Destroyer, the WWII drama he will direct that will star his Daddy’s Home 2 co-star Mark Wahlberg, with a script that Rosalind Ross adapted from the John Vukovitz novel. That film is finalizing its financing, but Gibson has scouted locations in Australia, where the film is expected to begin shooting by next spring.
Gibson next stars alongside Colin Farrell in the Tommy Wirkola-directed War Pigs for Millennium. He’s repped by CAA. Bagby is CAA and Anonymous Content.
In The Wild Bunch, an aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the traditional American West is disappearing around them and the industrial age is taking over. They are pursued by a posse led by a former partner they double crossed. Peckinpah wrote the script with Walon Green. The original starred Wiliam Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez and Ben Johnson.
The film was originally considered exceptionally violent, but it later came to be considered a stylistic masterpiece. Warner Bros has tried several times to mount a remake, but it seems in good hands with Gibson. From Best Picture winner Braveheart to films like Apocalypto and the recent Best Picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson has distinguished himself as one of the best directors of action working in the business.
Gibson will continue to prep Destroyer, the WWII drama he will direct that will star his Daddy’s Home 2 co-star Mark Wahlberg, with a script that Rosalind Ross adapted from the John Vukovitz novel. That film is finalizing its financing, but Gibson has scouted locations in Australia, where the film is expected to begin shooting by next spring.
Gibson next stars alongside Colin Farrell in the Tommy Wirkola-directed War Pigs for Millennium. He’s repped by CAA. Bagby is CAA and Anonymous Content.
09-24-18 | 09:51 PM
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09-24-18 | 09:55 PM
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09-24-18 | 10:51 PM
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Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
The problem with a modern Wild Bunch is that by making it modern you take away everything that the original movie was about. It's a movie about bandits with an outdated value system and the modern world (our modern world) that they all know is creeping up on them to end their way of life. If you make the film take place in that modern world then what is creeping up?
They probably won't even attempt to make it have any subtext anyway. It will just be a fist pumping bunch of bullshit.
They probably won't even attempt to make it have any subtext anyway. It will just be a fist pumping bunch of bullshit.
By putting it in modern day the producers are taking away the whole point of the story.
Whatever. Barring a surprisingly good script this will end up being another movie I can skip.
09-24-18 | 11:24 PM
#100
Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
That post was from five years ago when different people were making it. I hope Gibson doesnt have interest in a modern version...