The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
09-25-18 | 12:31 AM
#101
DVD Talk Legend
Re: THE WILD BUNCH remake...
We'll see.
Of course, I'd rather see a new Western with an original idea than another remake.
09-25-18 | 10:01 AM
#102
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
Gibson should play the entire Bunch himself. That way he can suffer and/or die a martyr several times over, rather than just the one time like in most of his movies.
09-25-18 | 10:17 AM
#103
Moderator
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
I'm going to give Gibson the benefit of the doubt with this. Coming from a huge Wild Bunch/Peckinpah fan who would rather leave the WB well enough alone. It depends on what final product the studio is after with this.
09-25-18 | 02:38 PM
#104
DVD Talk Gold Edition
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 It's a movie about bandits with an outdated value system and the modern world (our modern world) that they all know is creeping up on them to end their way of life.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.
Hopefully they won't set the film in modern times but make an old Western with a modern sensibility.
09-25-18 | 09:23 PM
#105
Re: Tony Scott to remake The Wild Bunch. AKA The Scott brothers are turning into HACK
FUCK! I've never not watched a remake of a film because of principle. But on principle, if Tony Scott remakes The Wild Bunch, not only will I not watch it, but I'll never watch a new Tony Scott film again. As if it wasn't enough that Straw Dogs got remade. Now this? If someone ever remakes (my favourite film of alltime) Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, I think I might have to remake Falling Down as a documentary! HAH!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/...d-bunch-remake
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/...d-bunch-remake
P.S. This thread was started four years before I joined this forum and this is my 3rd post in it in five years.
05-17-19 | 03:07 PM
#106
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
EXCLUSIVE: While Mel Gibson is attached to act in several films being sold in Cannes, he is getting closer to the next project he’ll direct, The Wild Bunch. Deadline hears that Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx and Peter Dinklage are in early talks to take part in the contemporized remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah Western about a group of aging outlaws looking for one last score.
Brian Bagby wrote the script with Gibson, and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. Warner Bros is financing and releasing. Deals aren’t done but sources said the film looks on course to begin production in the fall. The film will be Gibson’s first film as director since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, which won two Oscars and received four other noms including Best Picture and Best Director.
Brian Bagby wrote the script with Gibson, and Jerry Bruckheimer is producing. Warner Bros is financing and releasing. Deals aren’t done but sources said the film looks on course to begin production in the fall. The film will be Gibson’s first film as director since 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, which won two Oscars and received four other noms including Best Picture and Best Director.
05-17-19 | 03:44 PM
#107
DVD Talk Hero
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
I'm in!
05-17-19 | 03:51 PM
#108
Banned by request
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
Everything Gibson has directed I've liked or loved, so I'm looking forward to this. Probably more than the upcoming The Passion of the Christ: Part Deux.
05-17-19 | 04:01 PM
#109
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
Agreed. I trust Gibson a helluva a lot more with a remake like this than the type of hack the studios usually hire (i.e. Fuqua and his absolutely awful remake of The Magnificent Seven)...At least I doubt Gibson will tone down the violence (unless due to studio pressure)...And I love that Fassbender might be involved (one of my favourite current actors)...
05-17-19 | 05:30 PM
#110
DVD Talk Hero
Re: The Wild Bunch - remake (D: Mel Gibson)
I liked the Magnificent 7 remake.
I’m looking forward to this too. I enjoy the original Wild Bunch but I don’t hold it in quite as high regard as others.
I’m looking forward to this too. I enjoy the original Wild Bunch but I don’t hold it in quite as high regard as others.
