{"id":5125,"date":"2009-08-19T00:25:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T05:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2018-12-09T01:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T06:02:38","slug":"shoot-em-up-director-to-take-on-outland-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/19\/shoot-em-up-director-to-take-on-outland-remake\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOOT ‘EM UP Director Takes On OUTLAND Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OutlandPoster\"<\/a>Warner Brothers has hired Michael Davis to helm a remake of the 1981 science-fiction film Outland<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The original featured Sean Connery as a marshal investigating a series of mysterious deaths at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io. Written and directed Peter Hyams, who would return to Jupiter and its moons in 1984’s 2010<\/strong>, Outland<\/strong> drew comparisons with director Fred Zinnemann’s classic 1952 western High Noon<\/strong> for its protagonist’s dogged determination to bring those behind the miners deaths to justice, even at the cost of his own marriage.<\/p>\n

According to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>, Chad St. John’s screenplay for the new version will stick close to the original’s storyline, but will beef it up to summer blockbuster proportions.<\/p>\n

The story takes place in an orbiting city around the moon, where a cop uncovers a murderous conspiracy endangering the entire city. With a week before his retirement back to Earth, our hero has to choose between walking away with his wife, or taking on a private army with his overachieving ex-partner and wife’s former boyfriend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The original version received mixed reviews, though some critics pointed out that the transplanting of Zinnemann’s High Noon<\/strong> to a western setting was a fairly effective invention.<\/p>\n

The thing is, both High Noon<\/strong> and by extension Outland<\/strong>, were very much about their characters and the moral implications of the situations they found themselves in rather than any kind of extended action sequences that one expects from a tentpole-sized film that the Hollywood Reporter<\/em> claims Warners wants this to be. I have reservations that Davis has the ability to effectively handle this material. He has shown that he has a flair for energetic action sequences, as Shoot ‘Em Up<\/strong> is essentially one long series of such set piecess that paid the barest attention to the characters involved. As a bit of mindless escapism, it works just fine. But as a precursor to a remake of a reimagining of a film described as an “existential Western,” I’m left with some doubts.<\/p>\n

No cast or start date for the feature has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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