Terry Gilliam's TIME BANDITS is getting Remade... This Makes me Sick
Terry Gilliam's 1981 film Time Bandits is one of my all time favorite films. I grew up watching this movie, and I still pop it in and watch it when I'm feeling nostalgic a few times a year. This film is an awesome freakin' classic and has no business being remade. This is the kind of remake news that just pisses me off.
According to Variety GFM Films' Guy Collins, Michael Ryan and Fred Hedman are currently in talks with a unnamed Hollywood producer to remake the Time Bandits as a kids action franchise. Obviously they are doing this in hopes to make an ass load of money, but hell!? It's Time Bandits people!
As far as turning it into a kids franchise goes, if you've seen the original film then you know it's awesomely dark and it has a more adult tome to it, and as much as I loved this movie as a kid, I'm not sure if it's really a kids movie. With the way Hollywood is run these days, I just know they're going to lighten it up, and in the end it may in no way represent what made Time Bandits the great film that it is.
If you haven't seen Time Bandits yet, its on Instant Netflix, watch it when you get a chance. Here's the official synopsis for the film,
Young Kevin's daydreams burst into astonishing and hilarious life when a band of time-traveling little men come crashing through his bedroom wardrobe and carry him off on an unbelievable crime spree, weaving through the greatest and strangest moments of history. The pint-sized plunderers filch from a neurotic Napoleon (Ian Holm), a dim-witted Robin Hood (John Cleese) and a heroic King Agamemnon (Sean Connery), leading to a showdown with the dark forces of Evil (David Warner)...all while keeping just one precarious step ahead of the wrath of The Supreme Being himself!
And just for the hell of it, here's the trailer for the movie which is hilarious: