Rumor Mill: TIME BANDITS Being Rebooted?

[EricJ]

Terry Gilliam's TIME BANDITS is, without a doubt, a classic children's film. We all know this. For one thing, there's a sense of actual danger in it, too rare in children's films these days. It trusts kids to handle thematically rough material. Most family films sugarcoat darker issues of death and loss. Not TIME BANDITS. It will definitely be on my YOU KNOW, FOR KIDS column, especially in light of this news.

That was the whole point:
If you hear Gilliam on the Criterion commentary, he THOUGHT he was doing some "sick and twisted" Brazil-esque deconstruction, to cynically twist childhood dreams--
And yet, in the wake of Harry Potter (ooh, Kevin has mediocre suburban parents, how cynical! ), I know fellow kids' writers who wish they could write anything with as much kid-appeal as the Sean Connery segment.

Like Tim Burton, Gilliam tends to think he's a lot more "iconoclastic" than he might in fact have the necessary talent or creativity to be--
Case in point, an entire generation remembering the original Bandits as a "cool" 80's kids' film ("Let's remake this, and the Goonies!"), and not as a....uh...cynical satire?....Anybody?....