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This Week's Unnecessary Remake: 'The Bodyguard' at Warner Bros
by Ethan Anderton
February 23, 2011
Source: Deadline
The last time I laid down the law on an unnecessary remake it was Paramount's decision to remake the 1991 ensemble comedy Soapdish (which also just gained the writer Ben Schwartz). Now this time the unnecessary remake machine has been started up at Warner Bros. with Deadline saying the studio will redo the 1992 hit film The Bodyguard. The original film followed Kevin Costner as a Secret Service agent who is drafted to protect a singing diva (Whitney Houston) whose life is threatened by a dangerous stalker. But the bodyguard wasn't counting on falling in love with the diva and distracting him from sufficiently doing his job. Read on.
Apparently this new version (written by newcomers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer) still fits along those same lines but the bodyguard has been changed to a former Iraq war veteran who gets the job as his first responsibility after leaving the army. In this recreation the advancements of Twitter and Google Maps along with the invasive gossip mongers at TMZ has made access to celebrities easier and thus more dangerous and difficult for bodyguards to do their job. Apparently the studio aims to bring in a young female singer with global appeal and skyrocket her screen fame in the same way Whitney Houston launched her acting career. I'd say Beyoncé would be a prime choice for this project, but she's already doing A Star is Born. There's nothing left to say except that I could not care less about this project, but a good director could change my mind. How about you?
26 Comments
1
what the fuck for?
Anonymous on Feb 24, 2011
2
Justin Beiber as the singer? in this post Brokeback age, a romance about some man-boy love could work
El Hoopso on Feb 24, 2011
3
hehe
Fox on Feb 24, 2011
5
Unnecessary remake.. like extremely.
Mony on Feb 24, 2011
6
I just have to ask, how many movies are actually necessary?
Loser on Feb 24, 2011
7
Boo
Trat73 on Feb 24, 2011
9
Yeah and have it be a short, with no bodyguard....and she dies.
Cody W. on Feb 24, 2011
10
...with real firepower.
Fox on Feb 24, 2011
11
Hollywood and their remakes can go strait to hell!
John on Feb 24, 2011
12
Amen to that.
BlinkTwice on Feb 24, 2011
13
Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner. It`s fun that people always blames the studios and their heads when it is the people who buy the tickets who are to blame. Don`t want to see more remakes don`t buy a ticket. If they don`t make money on them they quit doing them,
Loser on Feb 24, 2011
14
I'd love one with whitney all cracked out and crapping in her sink in her bedroom cause she's too mashed to get to the toilet. I reckon Rhianna would be good for this terrible film. I met a guy once who was a bouncer and the Bodyguard was his favourite film ever, ha ha. He was even doing the special training on the weekend to get into Bodyguard school. I bet he's murdered people now and has commited suicide.
Crapola on Feb 24, 2011
15
loll! it's not unnecessary...The original made $400+Mil worldwide There are people outside North America guys... Warner Bros are making money now and have been doing some big thinks thanks to Nolan and the HP movies So it is a welcome reboot...unlike spiderman where less than 5 years after the original ended, the money hungry studios want something useless When is Spiderman is going to come up in this "unnecessary remake" section?
Gh on Feb 24, 2011
16
I don`t get this necessary, unnecessary thing. Are there actually any Hollywood movie that has been necessary? Could people have lived without all of them?
Loser on Feb 24, 2011
17
Wasn't the Costner/Houston version a remake? So this is a twice baked potato?
Medsign on Feb 24, 2011
18
Me likey.... You better copyright that. That's what I'm calling all reboots/ and rehashes and remakes from here on out!!
Anonymous on Feb 25, 2011
19
Rihanna will be in this film
Sdsd on Feb 24, 2011
20
It's got to be rihanna, shes number one by a mile
Tu12nip on Feb 24, 2011
22
if it ain't broke, don't fix it....... La la land needs to line up some decent writers. It is beginning to look like they can't do anything but remakes and junk.
Rosaleeadams on Feb 24, 2011
23
Jennifer Hudson would be a better actress...after all she beat Beyoncé at that game and sings better too.....Rihanna would stand and take the abuse from a starker.......
John Padilla on Feb 25, 2011
24
Insert Whitney joke...
Anonymous on Feb 25, 2011
25
wtf
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wtf
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