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WB is working on Gremlins, Goonies, The Bodyguard, Gollum, Matrix Films and more
Posted on 4/11/25 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 4/11/25 at 4:45 pm
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EXCLUSIVE: If you focus on snarky and largely unsubstantiated reports, you might figure Warner Bros Pictures co-chairman/CEOs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy would spend this weekend boxing up their belongings. Using a couple flops and risky upcoming films as fodder, several reports with scant backup say their Warner Bros Discovery boss David Zaslav is scouring for replacement candidates (which he denies in a tepid manner). Despite the rough press, De Luca and Abdy will actually spend this weekend same as their counterparts at other studios do: trying to keep an eye on kids while they read scripts, watch dailies and dream up slates for 2026 and beyond. The overheated reports quieted after A Minecraft Movie did way better than anyone imagined, and quickly joined another surprise blockbuster, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as top priority sequels to go with other IP revivals from The Matrix to Practical Magic, Gremlins and Goonies.
I can also reveal the studio just set plans to revamp the Kevin Costner Whitney Houston smash The Bodyguard, with director Sam Wrench (Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour) and Jonathan A. Abrams (he scripted the Clint Eastwood-directed Juror No. 2 for Warner Bros.)
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DEADLINE: Are there specific examples where big talent has been matched with library IP?
DE LUCA: Yes. Drew Goddard, writing and directing The Matrix. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Jay Roach, with their Oceans Eleven prequel; Matt Reeves as producer, working with Marvel’s Werewolf By Night director Michael Giacchino on a remake of our library title Them; Andy Serkis directing Gollum. Others we can’t talk about yet.
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ABDY: Adding to things we’re excited about, Andy Serkis doing the Gollum film, Drew Goddard writing a new Matrix. We’re super excited about Amblin developing with Chris Columbus, new entries in the Gremlins and Goonies franchises. We just had a dynamite check-in with Philippa Boyens on Gollum, and I think we’re about to get that script in May. Cat in the Hat and the second Dr. Seuss adaptation Jon M. Chu is co-directing … there’s really great stuff on the horizon.
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Posted on 4/11/25 at 4:53 pm to RLDSC FAN
Sigh… they’re trying way too hard to capture nostalgia when it’s likely gonna be pure shite
Just make an original idea.
Just make an original idea.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:03 pm to Lawyered
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Sigh… they’re trying way too hard to capture nostalgia when it’s likely gonna be pure shite
That window has passed or the train left the station following Hollywood's botching of some 80s reboots.
"Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent." - Don Draper
Hollywood is too clueless to get the delicate part (handle with care, respect the target audience) so nothing to be excited about here.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:12 pm to RLDSC FAN
WB is incredibly stupid. With Disney bombing left and right all they need to do is make solid, digestible content for mass appeal but they can’t do it. It’s sad really
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:33 pm to RLDSC FAN
I thought they already made a forgettable reimagining of The Bodyguard, on par with Road House.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:40 pm to Lawyered
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Just make an original idea.
Mickey 17 and Alto Knights are both WB originals that came out in the past six weeks that no one went to see. Sinners, another WB original, comes out next week.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:47 pm to devils1854
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Mickey 17 and Alto Knights are both WB originals that came out in the past six weeks that no one went to see. Sinners, another WB original, comes out next week.
+1 WBs big wins the last few years were sequels or remakes...Beetlejuice, Wonka, Godzila etc. And Barbie is obviously a known entity. Their originals are really struggling.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:53 pm to RLDSC FAN
It's basically like they just said "remake any successful project we've ever had"
Posted on 4/11/25 at 5:57 pm to devils1854
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Mickey 17
$118 million budget.
Not a film with mass appeal.
How can it make money?
That’s the problem.
Bong Joon-Ho Films in Korea are usually under $15 million.
They are very sucessfull.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 7:07 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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I thought they already made a forgettable reimagining of The Bodyguard, on par with Road House.
But they didn’t do one where a she is the bodyguard for a he…
Posted on 4/11/25 at 7:22 pm to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 4/11/25 at 7:54 pm to RLDSC FAN
I don't understand why these studios don't just re-release the originals on the big screen for a week or two in the Summer, it costs them no money, people will go see them, why spend 500 million remaking/marketing something that was perfectly good to begin with, and hoping to make 600 million on it, instead of just re-releasing the original and make a guaranteed 100 million?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 8:12 pm to Philzilla
I am still very interested in seeing Mickey 17. Idk where all the money they spend on marketing goes because it had left the movie theater before I even realized it was out
Posted on 4/11/25 at 8:48 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Gremlins, Goonies, The Bodyguard, Gollum, Matrix Films
ow many woke changes can we expect across these properties?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 9:02 pm to Freauxzen
If they do some kind of story continuation from the original that would be better than a remake
Posted on 4/11/25 at 9:08 pm to Lawyered
I’m genuinely curious. Has there ever been a remake that’s held up to the original or even surpassed it?
Posted on 4/11/25 at 9:09 pm to RLDSC FAN
They should be doing another Gilmore Girls miniseries while Kelly Bishop is still alive.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 9:12 pm to Freauxzen
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ow many woke changes can we expect across these properties?
We wants the role….precious.
Posted on 4/11/25 at 10:32 pm to Freauxzen
Gremlins are just misunderstood and should be welcome in sanctuary cities.
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