"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Reboot In Works - Dark Horizons
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James Bond franchise producers EON Productions are teaming with Amazon MGM Studios on a reimagining of the classic Dick Van Dyke-led family feature “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. Meetings are currently being set with potential writers and directors with plans for a theatrical release of the project. The original film was based on the children’s story […]

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.

  • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.

    Yeah, this particular type of remake has been done for almost a hundred years. Nothing to get too worked up about, though even as a kid I wasn’t interested in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

    Even for the rest of it, I’m at a point where I will just take these things on their own merits. Sometimes the creative hijackers who do their own story under cover of an existing property make something watchable (e.g. Foundation), and for most of the rest they were working with a property unlikely to inspire anything brilliant in the first place (e.g. Halo, which as a non-player still isn’t that bad… just “meh” with too big a budget).

    People want to tell stories. I’ll watch as many of the good stories as I can make time for.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      I was very disappointed in Foundation, specifically because it was some janky drama about people in the shell of the original story. The original story is about concepts that span thousands of years.