"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Reboot In Works - Dark Horizons
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James Bond franchise producers EON Productions are teaming with Amazon MGM Studios on a reimagining of the classic Dick Van Dyke-led family feature “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. Meetings are currently being set with potential writers and directors with plans for a theatrical release of the project. The original film was based on the children’s story […]

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    15 days ago

    I fucking called it years ago. I knew they would be bankrupt enough to reach that far into the bin. I literally can’t think of anything more embarrassing.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      There are thousands of amazing novels they could pull new material from, but instead they just keep rebooting stuff, and making sequels & prequels because they perceive it as safer. Then they complain that nobody wants to go to the theater anymore.