So there’s not much to discuss really unless we want to rant some more about whatever the heck it is WB is doing with the DC movies but we NEED CONTENT AND CLICKS CLICKS CLICKS so I’m suggesting a fun exercise for today’s roundtable: movie do-over. If you could be given free range to remake any movie, what would you do? You go back in time to the first day of production on a movie you felt underachieved. You have to keep the cast, budget, etc, but you can re-do the story however you’d like.
For example
I’d take the exact same cast and basic story (superman origin story and fight
vs Zod) of Man of Steel and just do
it right by launching Zack Snyder into the sun with my trebuchet.
ERIK
I'd replace
Ryan with Nathan Fillion in a heartbeat. I don't have the Firefly Fanboy desire
to make him play every role in every film but I mean... he's already played the
character in the DCAU and also Hal Jordan is Malcolm Reynolds, But He's
Superman.
KYLE
Oh Fillion
could murder that role. Honestly any number of cool guys could have done it.
Reynolds, Fillion, the initial rumor that the DCEU was casting Chris Pine as
Hal could have worked, although nowhere near as well as his shockingly good and
likeable Steve Trevor. Instagram is always trying to cast Armie Hammer as Hal
and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Armie Hammer in anything good.
ERIK
There are
rumors that the Lone Ranger was actually a thoroughly acceptable film, but
nobody who saw it didn't hate it before they walked in the door. I wouldn't
know, I didn't see it and have no intention of doing so.
I didn't
really like Ryan Reynolds for it, to be honest. I actually don't like Ryan
Reynolds in like half the roles he's ever played, because he's just
"Ryan Reynolds" in all of them and I hate when actors do that. He
nails the confidence/arrogance line-walking part of the character, but I don't
need Quipping Hal Jordan.
TRAVIS
One movie I
could get back and do again, eh? This is basically just a list of disappointing
movies, so I’ll try for a movie that I didn’t think was bad, but could have
been much better, Furious 7. It still makes me cry at the end, but the rest of
the movie has a massive shadow hanging over it due to the death of Paul Walker.
The comedy falls flat, the set pieces lose a lot of their meaning because the
story had to be re-written so hastily, and Bryan’s story gets stunted for
obvious reasons.
KYLE
In this
hypothetical are you keeping Paul Walker alive through the end of filming? I’m
giving us a lot of power in these hypotheticals but if I’ve said it once I’ve
said it a million times: I am never giving you the Resurrection Stone, Travis.
TRAVIS
Are we
remaking the movie today? Or are we having them re-do the movie at that
time? At the time I’d have given them longer to re-write the script and
Tarkin’d Paul Walker and his stunt double brothers in there for the extra stuff
you need.
KYLE
Re-making it
at the time. You fire the director on the first day of production, you are now
the director, and you’re like an untouchable director who gets to do whatever
he wants without studio interference. So Paul Walker is still dying here,
you’re just going to delay the premiere and give more post-production time to
fix this?
I should add
I want some specifics here, how would you change the plot to incorporate his
death more organically? Cuz I can definitely give specifics on how I’m fixing
Man of Steel.
