Listen to the names involved in the 1975 film The Yakuza:
Sydney Pollack, Paul Schrader, Robert Mitchum, Leonard Schrader, Robert Towne and Ken Takakura
What a list of talent in that movie. Well now Cinematical are reporting that the movie is to be remade with the Production helm being taken by…Bill Gerber, the Producer behind The Dukes of Hazzard. I weep. I really do.
Sydney Pollack’s 1975 flick The Yakuza, about a detective who heads back to China to rescue his daughter’s friend after she’s been kidnapped by the Yakuza, is being remade…The film, naturally, will be set in modern Japan. The original starred Robert Mitchum and was written by screenwriting legends Paul Schrader and Robert Towne.
However, we’ve yet to hear a name for a Director or Screenwriter (I presume they’ll rewrite) so things might not be all dark clouds and stained swords. Any fans of the original out there? How can they think of replacing Mitchum, and with whom?
