Come on, who are they going to get to replace Steve McQueen? Probably Chris Pratt or some other dumbass.

elvisaintdead: Mugato: Come on, who are they going to get to replace Steve McQueen? Probably Chris Pratt or some other dumbass.

probably not this guy-
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They're doing some impressive work with CGI these days.

NewportBarGuy: Some of the reboots have been ok, most are absolutely awful. Get creative. That's supposed to be your job.

Unfortunately the studio suits want safe, established properties, especially given how expensive movies are to make nowadays. Although Bullitt might as well be considered "original" since most of its target audience probably never heard of it. It might actually be seen as derivative considering all the car chase movies like the 20 Fast and Furious films and the terrible Death Proof.

Spielberg is just a (excellent) director. The films he's had the most creative input on are probably Indiana Jones, AI, The Goonies Close Encounters and maybe Poltergeist. Not exactly my favorite films personally except Indy and Poltergeist.

Archie Goodwin: NewportBarGuy: Maybe try coming up with something f*cking original and stop rebooting old things?

Some of the reboots have been ok, most are absolutely awful. Get creative. That's supposed to be your job.

Not directly at Spielberg, but the whole industry.

This will be a new film. It will just have the main character called Frank Bullitt. And he will drive whichever muscle car pays the production team the most.

Yeah, this seems more like a James Bond thing than a reboot (not that most Bond movies aren't pretty much the same).

And it's 2022. He'll drive a Prius.

Another Government Employee: Tyrone Slothrop: Another Government Employee: It sounds like this will be a cross between Bullitt and Dirty Harry.; It makes sense. The characters are very similar.

There hasn't been a good gritty detective movie done in a while. Maybe this will be alright.

The problem with the "gritty cop who bends or breaks the law" genre is that we have plenty of cops doing that for real, and it isn't fun or pretty.

Nothing different from the 70s heyday. In some ways, it was worse back then.

They used to say the same thing about '24' when Jack would torture people, this was during the whole post-9/11 "enhanced interrogation" thing. Cops would torture criminals all the time in movies up until then.

As for institutionalized torture, they did it like twice and it didn't work either time so in a way it was an anti-government torture show.

Billy Liar: You all seem pretty confident that it'll be a white man in the role.  I vote Queen Latifah.

That's true, it's almost taboo to cast white men in a role previously held by a white man.

Bslim: With Spielberg?
Hah, it will be Shia Lebeouf

Do we know if that idiot is going to be in Indy 5? He's not listed in imdb.com yet. But Mads Milkkensen and Antonio Banderas are so that's cool.

Bslim: Probably won't be but it's going to look real awkward went Spielberg went out of his way, considerably, to write that idiot into the story. He was all in with that stupid, gimmicky storyline.
So where's your idiot kid Dr. Jones?

Doesn't look like Marion's in it either. But Indy is a take on James Bond and Bond never keeps a girl for more than one consecutive movie. Sure Indy got married but so did Bond.