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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
Pretty far afield from the point I was making.
There's a difference between rebooting an existing work where you reimagine the same story told a different way, and reviving an existing work that already has a bunch of storylines that never got told.
Rebooting Casablanca, or The Godfather, is dumb because the entire story has been told and told pretty darn well.
Reviving Sherlock, or Fletch, or heck The Avengers [you ARE aware that there was an Avengers before the Avengers of today, right?], in order to realize a catalog of stories is different.
It can still go wrong, as can any translation from page to screen, but it's still different.
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If, and only if, there was a terrific script and a few great actors with a talented director/producer combo that all lined up to do a movie about Rick and Capt. Renault having ridiculous adventures together through Europe during WW2. I would give that a shot. That's the only interesting story left to tell and it's not worth it unless it's done in spectacular fashion.