Dan Aykroyd gives blessing for Female Blues Brothers movie

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Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

Funny that you brought up Road House. It was going to be remade a few years ago with Ronda Rousey in the Dalton role to be directed by Nick Cassevettes. That didn't go very well because the fan base for the original film isn't as small as you think and has in fact has become an iconic cult film, in part, because the filmmakers did take this seriously and became what it was. Remaking that film and try to subvert it was an uphill battle that no one was going to win.

I know exactly how big the fanbase is, because I love the film and have loved it since the day it came out, and yes there was backlash about the Rousey remake but most of it came down to the fact that Ronda couldn't act for shit (especially back then) and of course the fact that the original is such a man's film. I'll admit, I was one of them, I was originally convinced the property was too much a celebration of machismo that you could never remake it, but with the current environment of tough women in film I have since changed my mind and with the right talent behind it (you always need the right talent) you could definitely do a female-led spin-off/reboot/sequel in the modern day perhaps looking at this sort of tough-feminism era we live in.

There was no huge backlash on social media and youtube like you got with Ghostbuster because guess what: Roadhouse is a cult classic, but it's nowhere near as popular as Ghostbuster, hence the reason the backlash would never be so big, which was my original point. I also hope you're not trying to suggest that fan backlash was the reason the Ronda Roadhouse project hit a brick wall, because it suffered from production delays and then Rousey got KTFO'd and her image took a nosedive overnight (which was pretty frigging ridiculous imo, but that's what happened). I don't think for one second that they were trying to subvert the original but make a pretty vanilla and ultimately boring remake, but I believe that any remake of Roadhouse needs to have its tongue in its cheek a little. Like I say: The right approach, the right talent. The right approach, the right talent.

Oh and I said "Roadhouse didn't take itself too seriously. Do you not understand the difference between that and someone saying the film didn't take itself seriously at all? I would never claim that the film wasn't seriously made, but it's very clear that they took a cavalier "anything goes" attitude to the script and characters, it's clearly intended to be a fun genre flick.