Eli Roth and Bruce Willis to reboot Death Wish

[Sithborg]

Willis's lack of effort makes it rather unappealing and a bit disturbing.

 

[Wheels]

The biggest difference between the original Death Wish and the way this one looks is that the old one was a gritty and grimy film with a very ordinary guy on a mission to fight back against rampant street crime, this looks like it's aiming to be a cool action film with a badass anti hero doing cool action ****.

I think the first half of the trailer felt like Death Wish but then they went typical action trailer in the second half. Part of me is expecting a mix of the original and the over the top sequels.

 

[Gold Samurai]

This seems tonally awful. I never watched the originals with Bronson, but at least in the Bacon movie, it showed that his quest for blood was responsible for the rest of his family suffering and he died a broken, withered shell. This seems to be more "Teehee, vigilantism!"

Which, of course, is exactly the kind of message that 50/60-something white men in this country need to be hearing right now.

A vigilante operating in Chicago. Never seen that before

 

[StarLord]

That upcoming Batista film Bushwick looks more like Death Wish than this guff.

 

[Luigi]

I think it would be horrifying if the last thing I ever saw was Bruce Willis' incredibly bored face.

 

[Kane52630]

I mean at this point why don't they just rename it to Die Hard 6?

 

[Limonade]

I mean at this point why don't they just rename it to Die Hard 6?

You know my co-worker was just telling me that this morning. Probably the closest we'll get to a Die Hard movie.

 

[Neno_Kos]

Why does Bruce Willis keeps making same movies.... This sucks.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

That upcoming Batista film Bushwick looks more like Death Wish than this guff.

He'd prefer to be called just Shwick!



Anyone who gets that reference gets kudos from me.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

You know my co-worker was just telling me that this morning. Probably the closest we'll get to a Die Hard movie.

Yeah, which reminds me, slightly OT, but clearly that Die Hard Year Zero thing isn't happening. Fine by me; sounded like a pointless idea that nobody liked.

 

[Kane52630]

So I just got done watching Message From The King on Netflix... and it's way more of a Death Wish movie than this.

 

[Patchwork Man]

As a fan of the original, and DW2, and the late, great Charles Bronson, I say this remake looks like @SS!

 

[The Chris]

The trailer really makes me wonder what Joe Carnahan's version would have been like. I would have loved to see a Death Wish with the tone and grit of Narc and The Grey. Also I'm so tired of seeing Bruce sleepwalking. It's so disappointing, especially after the 2012 he had with Looper and Moonrise Kingdom. Heck i bet if Rian Johnson was directing this he'd get a real performance out of him.

 

[Jay Beezy]

We'll probably have to wait for Glass to see another real performance out of Willis. Shyamalan is passionate about it and will get Willis to be more passionate about it. Not to mention having to act alongside McAvoy who will be acting up a storm again playing multiple personalities.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/893063-bruce-willis-in-the-new-death-wish-poster#/slide/1

 

[jfurioso]

Well if they really wanted to be creative, they should've made it the wife who comes home to find her husband murdered and her daughter raped. Get someone like Michelle Pfieffer or Marisa Tomei as the vigilante.

Or they could've just had Elizabeth Shue as Paula Kersey and she comes home to find her husband Bruce Willis murdered rather than the other way round.

Jodie Foster already did it.

 

[jfurioso]

Ah, missed it. Right on.

 

[-JKR-]

Ah, missed it. Right on.

And aside from it being already been done in a movie, there's nothing original about gender-swapping an old premise.

 

[MOVIELORD101]

The more I'm thinking this remake over, the more my mind lingers on one question: why the **** would Roth think to cast Bruce Willis in place of CHARLES BRONSON? They're two completely different types of actors! Bronson played Kersey as a stoic, sometimes sly guy while Willis is used to playing more humorous action roles (Which he's clearly trying to do here). Liam Neeson would've been more fitting for Kersey (Neeson's been basically been doing Bronson-esque roles lately ever since Taken, anyway). But then again, they DID hire Eli Roth to direct this, and given THAT chucklehead's writing talents (i.e. love of using the word "gay" in place of calling things dumb or stupid) and his casting choices, well......

 

[The Chris]

Agreed actually i was way more interested when i thought it was gonna be either Liam Neeson or Frank Grillo under Joe Carnahan's direction.

 

[Hypestyle]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...direct-bruce-willis-in-mgms-death-wish-remake


Wha?

so will there be lots of "torture p*rn" sequences? Uh oh...

so many films since Death Wish have upped the ante on violence, revenge plots, and the like-- I'm not sure where this can really go that's new or a twist on the original.

 

[Hordakfan]

Reboot? this is a friggin' remake, a reboot is very different.

 

[Kane52630]

Tomato tomato.

 

[Lencho01]

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[TheVileOne]

Reboot? this is a friggin' remake, a reboot is very different.

Reboot was just a term that producers and directors started using because remake was seen as a dirty word with a negative connotation. So they started saying things like "reboot" or "reimagining."

They can all sort of fall under the same umbrella.