It just wouldn't be a week in Hollywood without another film remake being announced. According to the Hollywood Reporter.com, the 1981 Peter Hyams sci-fi drama "Outland" is being prepped by Warner Brothers to be remade. Itself basically a remake of the Gary Cooper Western classic "High Noon", "Outland" told the story of a no-nonsense marshal (Sean Connery) trying to clean up a mining outpost on the Jupiter moon of Io that is plagued with drugs and corruption.
The new version, to be directed by Michael Davis, writer/director of (shudder) the Clive Owen bomb "Shoot 'Em Up", will take place on a city orbiting around the moon. The other basics appear to remain the same.
Many may remember "Outland" as a staple on HBO back in the early 1980s, which is where most of us saw it for the first time (myself included). It was an entertaining, if unspectacular, sci-fi film saved largely by the performances by Connery, Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen. There was plenty of room for improvement in the writing and directing departments, so a remake might not be such a bad idea. Then again...the guy did write and direct "Shoot 'Em Up". I guess we'll see soon enough.
Outland should be remembered as the first R-rated movie I ever saw, at the Olde Towne Mall, RIP. xoxo Pook
ReplyDeleteGasp! You were underage at the time! Shame on you! :-P
ReplyDeleteWell, geez, if I wasn't underage in 1981, wouldn't that make me FREAKING ANCIENT now!? Sheesh! xoxo
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