Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise/IP-based flick of 2024

want to know something funny?

I read that Ryan Gosling was going to be in The Fall Guy the other day and in my tired state, I got it mixed up with the video game Fall Guys and thought "oh, guess that makes sense after Barbie"

“ Fall Guy was one of my favorite shows when I was 4. I don't remember anything about it.”

I was slightly older but same

The Fall Guy

If it could only be a remake of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020869/....

and then a movie about an eccentric millionaire who has a ranch full of horses.

The Foal Guy

I used to watch The Fall Guy all the time (along with other 80s imported US action shows like The A-Team, Airwolf, Blue Thunder, Knight Rider etc etc)

Haven't seen it in almost 40 years but could still probably sing most of the theme tune

Actually, was Blue Thunder a show or a movie? Or was it both?

A movie and then a show, I think

It was both. (The TV show starred Dana Carvey, believe it or not.) But the show was a failure and only lasted 11 episodes, unlike Airwolf, which ran for four seasons.

fond memories of texting a friend and asking if he wanted to see TAKEN 3 and he responded "only if the poster says TAK3N"

needless to say, yup

2KEN

Has the "a guy and a vehicle" genre ever been given the prestige tv treatment?

It's unmined territory, much like the talking horse genre

the Fall Guy theme song is indeed a banger. i actually thought the trailer looked entertaining, not that i watch any of this shit, but there was a refreshingly old school "real cars doing jumps and flips" vibe to it

xp - I feel like Poker Face nearly touched on that genre with the Barracuda she drove around.

and then a movie about an eccentric millionaire who has a ranch full of horses.

The Foal Guy

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Then a spinoff for Monty Python's Mr Creosote...The Full Guy?

I read that Ryan Gosling was going to be in The Fall Guy the other day and in my tired state, I got it mixed up with the video game Fall Guys and thought "oh, guess that makes sense after Barbie"

yeah, I also misread this and assumed they were making a "Fall Guys" movie (my kids have played that game a lot) and honestly didn't give it a second thought, I mean why not make a Fall Guys movie at this point.

I guess the Fall Guy was on TV when I was a little kid, but I don't remember ever having watched it.

Cancelling Dune 3 to put the money into an epic sci-fi Toejam & Earl film

um I'd be there in a flash

get E-40 to play Earl

The Fall Guy will only be the second ABC series debuting in the 1981-82 season to be adapted-- the other was Police Squad.
Why haven't they made a T.J. Hooker movie yet?

“He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”

my sister and I used to love quoting "Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire when she was pregnant with Blade," from the Blade trailer, but then I finally saw Blade a few years ago and the line was different. gonna assume they changed it.

obviously lines appearing in trailers and not in the movie itself isn't a new thing, but it does seem to be more common now, and I feel like now they're just coming up with catchy one-liners to put in trailers to hook people that they have no intention of putting in the movie.

like my friend still quotes "Times for some seasons BEATINGS!" when he quotes Violent Night, and it's not actually said in the movie, just the trailer.

still say the all-time most egregious bullshit was The Mighty Ducks's original trailer, where they edited two pieces of dialogue together to:

"You really suck!"
"Thank you for sharing that"

when the "thank you for sharing that" was a response to the goalie saying he wouldn't be available later in the season as he was moving to Philly.

whereas the trailer for fuckin Rogue One was not only full of them, but also gave a different interpretation of Jyn Erso's character as a fully-formed Rebel from the jump.

really glad they cut "I'm a Rebel. I rebel." though

my favorite remains, from Murder at 1600 -- "I've got a murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. An address that changes all the rules."

Lol, yeah, I totally confused Leitch with Stahelski. Again. I don't think I've seen anything else from Leitch besides "Deadpool 2," which was iirc fine. Of course Stahelski, even then all he's directed have been John Wick movies, right? I guess Stahelski is good at John Wick movies.

He’s the best at it.

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Voted Road House. It's like trying to remake an Ed Wood film.

It takes place in the Florida Keys, but shot in the Dominican Republic

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truly, there were no wrong answers here. one of the grimmest lineups since you started doing these, PK.

The winner is one I didn't initially see in the list lol

But deserved

Surprised to see People's Joker score so high, that's probably one of the most promising, imho, from what I've heard about. Did voters think it was the official Phoenix Joker sequel (it's not):

The film unofficially parodies characters from the Batman comics, and the main character is a transgender woman based on the Joker, played by Drew. The film also features Scott Aukerman, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, David Liebe Hart, Robert Wuhl, and Bob Odenkirk in supporting roles.

I'll confess to voting based on the assumption that it was related to the unjustly feted Phoenix movie. A whole different category of obnoxious, helping me break the tie between all the other cynical cash-in dreck seen here. I guess I'd change my vote to Ghostbusters.

despite the appearances it seems like a one-off small budget satirical thing not really worthy of mentioning re: the thread title

I love some of the people involved, but I can't imagine it's anything other than terrible.

a dystopian world monitored by Batman, a young child grows up in Smallville, Kansas idolizing the performers on a sketch comedy program, UCB Live.

I would rather see the real Joker sequel.

Yeah, that sounds terrible. "Subversive" takes on superhero tripe are no better than superhero tripe, and frequently worse.

oh, yeah my vote was probably for the wrong Joker

vera drew is the editor of on cinema and i’m really excited to see that movie, and also you’re all dumb

Early press is great and tbh I will see the shit out of it

Kevin O’Neill and Pat Mills is no better than Dan Jurgens and Dan Jurgens, it’s true

Yeah, People's Joker has had nothing but good hype from ppl I trust.

it's really good, also ivy otm

The film also features Scott Aukerman,

i'm out

"The Beatles: Sir Sam Mendes to direct four films - one about each band member"

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68350477

Do KISS next

then the Grateful Dead

then stop when you get to Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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