Away back in December 2004 we posted a story about the Wild Bunch remake and although it seemed like a destruction of a classic, there was some hope. It was that David Ayer wanted to do it rather than being pulled in by a Studio with preconceived plans to rewrite.
Cinematical are carrying that story today from the Guardian (both well behind us!), but they have a little more information:
The planned remake will take place in modern Mexico and the plot will involve the CIA, drug cartels and a heist…
…Ocean’s Twelve producer Jerry Weintraub added: “It’s not a Western anymore, but it still has the ‘Wild Bunch’ characters and the elements that made the original film so memorable.”
WHOOOSH! Oh…that was the bundle of hope I was holding just being pulled out the window…Surely no good can come of this? What do you think? They can’t expect to remake the story and keep the same characters in a modern day setting of the CIA? Can the characters behave as they did and manage to be in such a setting as the CIA in this climate? I don’t see it working…it’ll turn out something like Training Day with multiple characters.
