Fail-Safe remake

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‘Paradise Lost’ Director Joe Berlinger to Helm Present-Day Reimagining of Cold War Thriller ‘Fail-Safe’

Joe Berlinger, the groundbreaking U.S. director known for HBO’s Emmy-winning true crime docuseries “Paradise Lost,” is set to direct a feature film that will reimagine the cold war thriller “Fail-Safe.”

The 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, which was originally adapted for the big screen by Sidney Lumet, depicts a harrowing scenario in which a “fail-safe” mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

According to a statement, Berlinger’s take on the novel will use a “faux-cinéma vérité approach” to “reimagine what the world would look like today had the events in the book really happened in 1967, with the total nuclear annihilation of New York and Moscow.” The film “will combine high-stakes international drama and classic documentary-style storytelling to reinvent the Cold War political thriller for new audiences.”

Lumet’s successful 1964 film starred Henry Fonda as a level-headed U.S. president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist. A TV version with Richard Dreyfuss, George Clooney and Harvey Keitel revisited the subject in 2000.

Berlinger’s contemporary reimagining of “Fail-Safe,” which is now in development, will be produced by Los Angeles-based Maria Farinha Films & Co. It’s the newly established U.S. outpost of Brazilian social impact entertainment company Maria Farinha Films, a leading Latin American studio known for its hit Globoplay Original “Aruanas.”

[peruguy]

So... If this takes place after NYC & Moscow were destroyed in 1967 wouldn't this be a sequel instead of a "re-imagining"?
That sounds like it could be interesting. And a nice tip of the hat to a great movie.
A re-make /re- imagining tho? not so much.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by peruguy

So... If this takes place after NYC & Moscow were destroyed in 1962 wouldn't this be a sequel instead of a "re-imagining"?
That sounds like it could be interesting. And a nice tip of the hat to a great movie.
A re-make /re- imagining tho? not so much.

I don't think it's a sequel, because aside from the cities being destroyed, it isn't going to assume the same events took place before.

In fact, I think this would be closer to a reboot, but I can see why they wouldn't want to call it that.

[peruguy]

OK, but the construction of the original FAIL SAFE, the way it was filmed. So grim & relentlessly hopeless.
I'm not even sure if I can describe the aesthetics of the original properly, but it had a very original texture that never wavered.
Hard to imagine doing a re-anything to it.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by peruguy

OK, but the construction of the original FAIL SAFE, the way it was filmed. So grim & relentlessly hopeless.
I'm not even sure if I can describe the aesthetics of the original properly, but it had a very original texture that never wavered.
Hard to imagine doing a re-anything to it.

The movie was very much of its time. It made perfect sense back then. I think Berlinger is going for much more of a post-apocalyptic movie, though - which could be also very good for the 2020s.

[peruguy]

Well, if that's the plan then good luck to Mr Berlinger capturing the current vibe of the 2020's.
Compared to the previous glacial pace of the cold war in the 60's the "current" situations of today are changing kinda... Fast

[slip220]

What is going to be now? Some specific tiktok dance that unlocks the doomsday machine?

Please stop remaking stuff for new audiences just for the sake of remaking

According to a statement, Berlinger’s take on the novel will use a “faux-cinéma vérité approach”

i really feel embarrassed when i read this kind of pretentious word salad with some french term in the middle