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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
Might as well gender flip that too then?
Melissa McCarthy as Fletch?
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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.