'War Games' the MGM Reboot

[WyldeMan45]

MGM will reboot the 1983 thriller War Games, and the studio has set Seth Gordon to develop the film to direct. Gordon, who made his breakthrough with the gaming documentary The King of Kong, most recently directed the New Line comedy Horrible Bosses, with Colin Farrell, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Jamie Foxx. The reconstituted MGM has been going to town with remakes -- landing Jose Padilha to direct Robocop and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to script Carrie -- but the John Badham-directed War Games is one that seems particularly reboot-able.

The original starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as computer prodigies who finds a back door into a military computer program. They think they are playing games with the computer only to find they could trigger WWIII if the computer launches nuclear missiles at the Russians. In terms of computer games, kids were playing Pong back then; the level of sophistication with vidgames and the Internet in the digital age opens a wealth of possibilities, and Gordon will be given a wide berth to create a new take on the tale. The deal also reunites him with MGM toppers Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber and Jon Glickman, who were at Spyglass when Gordon directed Four Christmases there.

[Mandalorian]

Hide ya kids, hide ya wife, cus they remaking everything around here.

Seriously, no movie is safe today. *facepalm*

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by RJ Smoove

Hide ya kids, hide ya wife, cus they remaking everything around here.

Seriously, no movie is safe today. *facepalm*

This is true, but War Games is definitely a movie that could use an update. I recently tried watching it and the tech is just so old that it's very hard for me to take any of it serious. I'm curious about how immense a hacker's skills need to be to break through today's security protocols to accomplish a feat like this now. But as will always movies it will come down to cast, director and the music.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

This is true, but War Games is definitely a movie that could use an update. I recently tried watching it and the tech is just so old that it's very hard for me to take any of it serious. I'm curious about how immense a hacker's skills need to be to break through today's security protocols to accomplish a feat like this now. But as will always movies it will come down to cast, director and the music.

I watched it as recently as last year and I agree about the dated tech. That said, these studios seem to be ignoring the fact that people mock them and their lack of creativity.

[MorgolKing]

I don't see the need for this.

They already screwed up the Red Dawn remake by being all politically correct and changing the imminent threat from China to North Korea...that's right North Korea, the country that just ran out of food reserves this month.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by MorgolKing

I don't see the need for this.

They already screwed up the Red Dawn remake by being all politically correct and changing the imminent threat from China to North Korea...that's right North Korea, the country that just ran out of food reserves this month.

Yeah well that just means we can starve em out...

WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Speaking of, when the frakk are we going to get that movie? They need to cash in on Hemsworth's popularity. Or are they waiting till Hutcherson becomes a huge star after the Hunger Games next March?

[Samus Aran]

Maybe they were waiting for Adrianne Palicki to hit it big with Wonder Woman.

If you want to talk PC, just wait for the Bin Laden movie. They'll change him to a Mormon extremist hiding out in Utah.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Maybe they were waiting for Adrianne Palicki to hit it big with Wonder Woman.

If you want to talk PC, just wait for the Bin Laden movie. They'll change him to a Mormon extremist hiding out in Utah.

Kathryn Bigelow proved she does military stories right. I trust her to make him look like the mass murdering douche he is.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Maybe they were waiting for Adrianne Palicki to hit it big with Wonder Woman.

If you want to talk PC, just wait for the Bin Laden movie. They'll change him to a Mormon extremist hiding out in Utah.

A Mormon extremest named Sean Smith with only a slight tan.

[Offender_Mullet]

Originally Posted by RJ Smoove

Kathryn Bigelow proved she does military stories right. I trust her to make him look like the mass murdering douche he was.

Fixed. Careful don't want to incite the conspiracy theory crowd.

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

A Mormon extremest named Sean Smith with only a slight tan.

Played by Ryan Reynolds.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

Fixed. Careful don't want to incite the conspiracy theory crowd.

I was right the first time. Even his corpse is a douche.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

Played by Ryan Reynolds.

Or Dane Cook. Ohhhh ohhh he should actually play Osama, because with Osama dead Dane Cook is officially the biggest LIVING douche bag.

In the past 8 posts, nobody has even mentioned War Games.

[Samus Aran]

I was really young when I saw WarGames so I remember nothing about it. Isn't Flight of the Navigator getting remade too?

I guess we should prepare ourselves for Taylor Lautner in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

I guess we should prepare ourselves for Taylor Lautner in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, somehow I think that would still be better then Crystal Skull.........

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by Samus Aran

I guess we should prepare ourselves for Taylor Lautner in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Don't say that...

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, somehow I think that would still be better then Crystal Skull.........

Hey now, Shia can act when he's given the opportunity. He's definitely better that Lautner.

[lucv13]

"Do you want to play a game ? How about Global Thermonuclear War ?"

I'm in and looking forward to a reboot of the movie, haven't seen it in a few years but remember it was a great movie back in the day - enjoyed it more than the original Tron...

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by lucv13

"Do you want to play a game ? How about Global Thermonuclear War ?"

I'm in and looking forward to a reboot of the movie, haven't seen it in a few years but remember it was a great movie back in the day - enjoyed it more than the original Tron...

What does the Canuck flag have to do with that?

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by RJ Smoove

Don't say that...

Hey now, Shia can act when he's given the opportunity. He's definitely better that Lautner.

Between Crystal Skull and the Transformers, he has yet to prove anything to me. It doesn't seem like he's taking his career the least bit serious, just that he's in it for the biggest pay days possible.

[Mandalorian]

Originally Posted by WyldeMan45

Between Crystal Skull and the Transformers, he has yet to prove anything to me. It doesn't seem like he's taking his career the least bit serious, just that he's in it for the biggest pay days possible.

Well duh. Those are the last two films of his I'd tell people to watch if I was trying to prove he's actually a decent actor. Holes and Disturbia are good choices to see better performances of his.

EDIT: What the hell man? You have Disturbia! You don't think he was good in that?