Details revealed about COMMANDO remake, PROTECTION and more

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Mr. Popper's Penguins arrives in theaters this weekend, and producer John Davis has been doing a lot of press lately. Davis recently spoke to Collider and revealed some details about his upcoming projects, including the action-thriller Protection, David Ayer’s Commando remake, and The Last Mission.

Here is what he had to say about Protection, which at one point had Dwayne Johnson attached to star:

Protection I have been developing for 5 or 6 years. It is this really great writer, who did 21 (Allan Loeb). He writes a lot of great scripts. It is a really great script. It is just going to be the right director, right actor, and the right time. But it is a fabulous script.

Davis talks about how different the new Commando is from the original, and confirms it will be a hard R. Here is what he had to say:

We have a really great script. You know, I don’t know if it really makes sense to call it Commando. Maybe it does or maybe doesn’t. It is the reboot of it and all of that stuff. It is David Ayer, who did Training Day. He wrote it and wants to direct it. It is there and it is a brilliant script. It is just waiting for the right moment for the studio to want to make it and finding the right actor.

He also gave an update on The Last Mission:

Nothing is truly really happening with that. We have a really good script. When Stallone did his movie last year…that was the whole idea of the movie. In a few years I think you can pull that back out again. Sometimes you develop a movie and it is the same concept that someone else is developing. If they get there first you have to put it on the shelf for a little while, but that is okay. You can bring it back. Like when I did Behind Enemy Lines. We were getting ready to do the movie and all of that Bosnia stuff blew up and it didn’t make sense to make the movie while that was happening. Then 4 or 5 years later it made sense again and we made it. So sometimes you have a library of projects and they will have their day. You have to wait for the right moment.

I am not sure how I feel about the Commando remake, but David Ayer (Street Kings) is involved so I have some hope. The othe projects sound pretty good as well. What are your thoughts?