Shouldn’t there be some kind of statute of limitations on how long a franchise has to wait before it gets the reboot?
Case in point: “Spy Kids.”
Director Robert Rodriguez has says that he wants to reboot the franchise and that he wants to make it “grittier” along the lines of what happened to James Bond in “Casino Royale.”
Rodriguez said that the fourth Spy Kids movie would be “like the ‘Casino Royale’ to ‘For Your Eyes Only’. The other movies were the ‘For Your Eyes Only’s. I love ‘For Your Eyes Only’, the Roger Moore James Bonds. This is the ‘Casino Royale’.”
Rodriguez has just completed the script for the newest installment/reboot and turned it in to New Line. The director says that fans can expect less green screen work and more CGI from the fourth entry.
“It’s going to be more like the first ones,” Rodriguez said. “It’d be very practical, very realistic.”
“It’s like I can go do someone else’s franchise that I don’t own, or when I had the idea for this, I thought, ‘That’s kind of cool. It’s about 10 years later.'” Rodriguez said. “That’s my most loyal audience. More than the geek crowd are the kids. Every day kids and families come up and say. ‘Thanks for Spy Kids. We’re showing our new kids that.’ So I thought, ‘Let’s revitalize it with an amazing cast and new kids.’ That sounds not as good as probably it really is, but when you read the script, it actually is. It didn’t sound like we were going back to the well for the fourth time. This actually feels completely new.”
WTF, Willis?!!
Unless the movie was an absolute dog that could have been done better, then there should be some sort of unwritten law about the amount of time there has to be before a re-do.
In 2012 are we going to see a “2014: OK, We Were Wrong”.
At least Rodriguez is doing it. But you have to wonder, just how “gritty” can you get when you’re doing a story with kids?