Time Bandits - The Reboot

[terry78]

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Time-Bandits-Remake-Coming-23976.html

You heard me.

 

[Octoberist]

Why reboot this when it lacks any name recognition besides nerds and Gilliam fans? Stupid.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Can we not use the word remake anymore?

 

[:eek:]

Former Handmade Films execs Guy Collins and Michael Ryan are in talks with a Hollywood co-producer to reinvent the property as a big screen kids action franchise, likely losing all the eccentric touches that Gilliam brought to the film along the way.

Depressing. Really depressing.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Why reboot this when it lacks any name recognition besides nerds and Gilliam fans? Stupid.

Exactly.

 

[The Sarge]

What a stupid idea for a remake.
The original is. . . timeless.

 

[GhostPoet]

What a stupid idea for a remake.
The original is. . . timeless.

ooh, I see what you did there.

 

[terry78]

ooh, I see what you did there.

Stevie Wonder saw it.

 

[Gabe99]

Cursed Genius Terry Gilliam is Working on a ‘Time Bandits’ TV Series

While participating in an online Q&A over at The Guardian to promote his new autobiography, Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir, Gilliam was asked about his future in television. After all, he recently signed a deal with Amazon that would allow him to resurrect projects like The Man Who Killed Don Quixote and The Defective Detective, both of which he’s struggled to bring to the screen for years. And while Gilliam’s answer mostly dwells on The Defective Detective (whose script is being expanded into a six-hour series), he does open with that Time Bandits news:

We are involved in two possibilities — one, a TV series based on Time Bandits, another based on a script by Richard LaGravanese and I wrote after Fisher King, called The Defective Detective. We’re currently adapting a two hour film into a six hour series. It’s about a middle aged New York cop who was once a hero who has grown fat and cynical and is in the middle of a breakdown, ending up in a child’s fantasy world where the rules of the mean streets of New York no longer apply. The best way to kill a dragon is no longer a gun, but a tree branch you think is a sword.

 

[terry78]

Well.

 

[Airwings]

What director can make this justice? It needs to be someone as twisted as Gilliam. I suggest Tim Burton or Jeunet

Will we get a Bond actor in this (maybe Pierce Brosnan)? Another UK comedian as Robin Hood?

 

[Immortalfire]