The Phantom movie shall begin anew down under.
An Australian production company on Monday announced it had secured the rights to “The Phantom Legacy,” a follow-up to the 1996 film “The Phantom,” which starred Billy Zane as the masked hero who fights evil from his jungle headquarters.
The latest adaptation, which is expected to cost 130 million Australian dollars ($87 million), is not a sequel to the earlier picture, but a fresh look at the origins of the Phantom set in the present, scriptwriter Tim Boyle told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.
The concept of the Phantom was that this crime fighting legend passes down from generation to generation. I don’t understand why this cannot be a sequel to the Billy Zane flick since it will be set in modern day. This could easily be a passing of the torch to the next generation.
The Reboot is a powerful tool in Hollywood, and done right can revitalize a series when there is no where else to go. But after one film, I think its more of a remake than reboot. Its just trendy to call it a reboot lately. That seems to generate buzz.
I liked the Phantom. It captured some of that almost campy quality of the Pulp Adventure comic strips it came from. To make it modern day might strip away some of that stylizing and this concerns me.
