Another day in Hollywood, another reboot. Yet this one is perhaps a little more unexpected. Albert Hughes – who usually collaborates with his brother on Allen on films such as Menace II Society and Dead Presidents – will direct a reboot of The Fugitive for Warner Bros.
The 1993 film starred Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones and was a massive hit. Ford is the man accused of murdering his wife, while Jones (in an Oscar-winning role) is the U.S. marshal hunting him down. The film spawned a Jones-led sequel (U.S. Marshals) and a 2000 rebooted series that only lasted a season. Granted, the film itself was a reimagining of the 1960s TV series which ran for four seasons.
Bizarrely, there’s also another Fugitive reboot in the works. Sort of, anyway. Quibi, the new, short-form video platform, has announced a new series also titled The Fugitive. It stars Kiefer Sutherland as a detective attempting to catch Boyd Holbrook, whose character is wrongfully accused of blowing up a Los Angeles subway train.
It’s a similar premise but not exactly, although it has the same title. That iteration is reportedly also aiming to tackle hasty and faulty social media journalism. So the two projects will likely be somewhat different, but it’s still strange that two iterations of the same property are being rebooted at the same time.
Brian Tucker will write the Fugitive script. He previously worked with Hughes on the 2013 film, Broken City. How exactly Warner Bros. expect to improve on the 1993 film, a suspense classic at this point, is unclear. There’s probably plans for a franchise if the film does well, but first we’ll wait and see what exactly this thing looks like. Who will play Kimble? And who will he match wits with?
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