I couldn’t believe it when Keanu Reeves was announced as Sinbad in the remake by Rob Cohen, it all said bad acting and huge explosions to me, but then Cohen produces fun movies so maybe it would have turned out okay. Doesn’t matter now, it seems that Sony have dropped the movie.
The black and white quote from LA Times through Coming Soon.
Cohen’s $135-million Stealth was a summer flop, grossing just $32.1 million in domestic theaters and generating a Sony loss of almost $50 million. “It didn’t seem like a good idea for us to make that movie after ‘Stealth,’ ” Pascal said of “Sinbad.”
Yep, that’s dead. I’m happy that they aren’t butchering that classic. Not to say Cohen would do that, but Keanu in the lead just didn’t do it for me, and a remake of such a movie should really be done by an exceptional team or not at all. Happy days?
