Martin Campbell Eyeing ‘The Fall Guy’

COMMENTS (32)

• No. Just, no.

  Comment by JustSayin' — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 1:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is it any wonder that DreamWorks is in the shitter? Really, Spielberg? This is what you guys do with your money and abilities? Your East-Indian financiers must be feeling pretty ripped-off about now. Sad, Steve, very sad to watch you truly getting old.

  Comment by everybody — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 1:20pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Don’t bring Steven into this. This is a Walter Parkes project. Last three movies: Dinner for Schmucks, The Uninvited, The Burning Plain.

    Comment by Fan — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 1:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why?

  The biggest ticket sales come from the demographic that probably never even heard of the Fall Guy. If you tell them it’s about a stunt man who’s also a bounty hunter, you probably wouldn’t even get a reaction. I bet it’s going to be as campy as the A-Team. And where are they going to get another Heather Thomas? All name actresses today are anorexic. They’re not gonna be able to fit her “boobs.”

  Comment by Hello — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • @Hello. Re-imagine the Heather Thomas role with a Kardashian sister. That should put a few butts in the seats.

    Comment by Merz — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • A Kardashian put butts in the seats? you are nuts.

      Comment by Kabbe — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 2:35am PDT  Reply to this post

• This is perfect for big screen adaptation. Love it.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 1:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Who is starring? Mickey Rourke? Pitiful. And Casino Royale sucked.

  Comment by captainLashout — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 1:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Hey, let’s not get overzealous here. “Casino Royale” was badass!

    Comment by TB — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 11:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Err no, Quantum sucked, Casino was excellent

    Comment by El Pedro — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 5:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• Stop rebooting from antecedents that predate the core audience. If you’re under 21, THE FALL GUY might as well be TRISTRAM SHANDY for all you know or care about it.

  Comment by TomF — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 2:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Can’t wait. Now I hope Dreamworks puts it’s laser like focus to the long overdue “BJ and The Bear” re-boot and then “McMillan & Wife”.

  Comment by The Bear & Wife — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 2:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• You know that they’re going to try and cast Chris Evans or some other 12 year old to play the Fall Guy. This concept is in the toilet before they even start filming it.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 2:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Who will be “the fall guy” when this movie tanks? Parkes? Spielberg? Maybe they should consult that Magic 8 Ball… oh wait, they are making that into a movie, too. Scarp that idea.

  Comment by LeeMinor — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• No. Just no.

  Thank you.

  Comment by anhonestanswer — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:34pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This is just a bad idea. Do something original. If they make this movie I will pasas on it. I would not even rent it from REDBOX

  Comment by stan — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• All these complaints about what people think might happen with casting….Because Lee Majors is such a master thespian that the idea of casting someone who can act in the role is too horrible to contemplate.

  Comment by Lillian Wolf — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 4:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• PLEASE have Burt Reynolds involved as HOOPER.

  (For those 35+? “You’re welcome.” For those younger? – Look it up and watch the movie. You’ll be glad you did.)

  Comment by Burt — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 4:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• they should remake Hooper.

  Comment by grady P. — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 4:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This sounds great! The Fall Guy was a classic series and is a great idea for a high-concept adaptation. Anyone worth the two cents they’re throwing up here should know the development team behind this project is talented and informed. Don’t think they’ll let it go the way of campy remakes like A Team or Dukes of Hazzard… Cant wait!

  Comment by haterseverywhere — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 5:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “the best James Bond film.” Come ONNNNNNNNNNN !!!

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 6:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This actually feels like a worthwhile remake — it’s a good enough concept to stands on it’s own two feet. and it’s not such a popular title that they have to be slavish to the original series.

  it wasn’t a bad idea to remake the A-Team, either. it was just a terrible, awful movie. but c’mon — Dreamworks is not Fox.

  Comment by cautiously optimistic — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 6:35pm PDT  Reply to this post

• A Team was camp?

  Comment by Tramp Stamp — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 7:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I just rebooted my breakfast.

  Comment by Jon — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 8:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Uh, no thank you. This will be the next “A-Team”. Why don’t you get Liam Neeson to star in the Lee Majors role?

  Comment by gary — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 10:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think Parkes will do a great job with this high concept idea that was super popular when it originally aired. I teach at a film school and I can guarantee you that my students (average age 19 years) have not even heard of it before. As long as the story seems real an authentic, they will love it, otherwise, they will hate it.

  Comment by Susan — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 3:50am PDT  Reply to this post

• I am not the kind to kiss and tell
  But this movie is going to suck
  This movie no way in hell scores
  close to a nine hey hey.
  it will blow up like a volacano
  and go crash to hell
  and when it goes in the tank
  its past its day hey hey
  Cause I the unknown critic
  who is going to bury this turd
  with dirt doo doo doo doo doo doo

  Comment by Vincent armone — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 4:20am PDT  Reply to this post

• First tv show I ever recorded on VCR was an episode of the fall guy

  Comment by Aeiouy — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 4:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• Everyone has a sacred cow tv show they never want to see remade as a modern film and mine is The Fall Guy (well and Columbo). I adore this show, still watch it on DVD on a regular basis. I was too young for Sox Million Dollar Man so this was my Lee Majors show. It also has the greatest theme song in the history of television.

  Oh, and Lillian Wolf, in think post-ers issues with the casting of someone like Chris Evans is not about Majors being a great actor but about his charisma, age in the role and rugged manliness. No young actors can match that. The Fall Guy role should be a worn-down-by-life character. Russell Crowe could play it. But noone should and certainly not anyone under 40

  Comment by Seth Imis — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 7:37am PDT  Reply to this post

• A phenomenally stupid idea. When it fails I hope it takes whatever execs redlighted this with it, straight into the dumper.

  How about some new stories? There are plenty of writers that have original film ideas waiting for a brave studio executive to say yes. The problem is courage. No one’s got it. Studio execs, companies nationwide sitting on massive cash stockpiles, politicians afraid to rustle the feathers of fringe groups … it’s all about white men not being able to get past their fear, desperate to hold onto their own status quo.

  Where are the men? They’re not in decision making roles, apparently.

  Comment by Joe B. — Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 11:18am PDT  Reply to this post