Ready For A Remake Of The Fugitive?

I’m guessing that somebody somewhere in the foodchain looked at the abysmal Taken 3 and thought, you know, if they’re going to make a Fugitive movie, they might as well do it right.  Or make decent bank out of using the name better.  It’ll be a tough challenge though trying to outdo or even equal the last ‘reboot’ (1993 movie), damn it was quite good.

Says Deadline;

The studio has set Christina Hodson — whose The Eden Project was bought at auction by Sony, and whose script Shut In is completing shooting with Naomi Watts for EuropaCorp — to write it.

Arnold and Anne Kopelson are returning as producers, but they would not say if Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones will be coming back for an encore.

I think it’s all but certain that neither of those characters are going to return.  What are they going to do with Ford, have him act as an advisor in finding the latest Fugitive?  He wouldn’t volunteer (the character that is, not Ford, who’d appear in a weed-killer ad if they asked him these days).  Reboot it is then.  I’d say they’d be looking closer at the old series too for ideas, to avoid re-hash criticisms from the more recent version.

By the way U.S. Marshalls was unfairly treated as a movie.  It was good, and one of the best manhunt movies out there.