Sony Pictures to Remake Blue Thunder

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/420569-sony-pictures-to-remake-blue-thunder

Heat Vision is reporting that Columbia Pictures/Sony has officially begun development on a remake of the 1983 action thriller Blue Thunder, which centered on a high-tech helicopter designed for urban pacification. The remake will update the premise with a focus on drone technology.

Writer and Marvel Studios executive Craig Kyle, who is currently penning the script for Thor: Ragnarok, will adapt the screenplay based on the original, which was written by Dan O’Bannon (Alien) and Don Jakoby (Evolution) and directed by John Badham (Wargames). The ’83 Blue Thunder starred Roy Scheider and Daniel Stern, and later became a short-lived TV series in ’84.

Dana Brunetti of Trigger Street Productions will re-team with Columbia’s new President of Production Michael De Luca following their successful collaboration on recent blockbuster Fifty Shades of Grey. Jason Blumenthal will also produce for Escape Artists.

Not a bad idea as there are some cool possibilities with updating the concept.

 

[StarLord]

I actually like the '83 movie.

 

[spider-neil]

Sony seem hellbent on remaking everything. If I were going to give them some advice I would say don't attempt to remake classics (which BT certainly is not) go after movies that have a name but was generally thought as poor (for example example Super Mario Bros) and attempt remake that. You wont be able to do a worse job and the general audience wont moan at another classic being butchered.

 

[DarkKnight88]

If I were going to give them some advice

Hahaha

 

[PacificBoy]

I await the inevitable Blue Thunder x Airwolf x Knight Rider x Street Hawk, heck, even Clint Eastwood's Firefox, crossover universe.

 

[spider-neil]

Hahaha

They need to take advice from somewhere because currently Sony is a creativity vacuum.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I await the inevitable Blue Thunder x Airwolf x Knight Rider x Street Hawk, heck, even Clint Eastwood's Firefox, crossover universe.

You forgot Iron Eagle! Philistine!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

There has to be a J.A.F.A. reference or I won't go.

 

[PacificBoy]

You forgot Iron Eagle! Philistine!

I was saving it for the other 80s remake universe with Top Gun and The Last Starfighter. t: