Hacking movie WarGames set for remake

Biggins

Hacking movie WarGames set for remake

With those scamps at Anonymous and LulzSec dominating the tech headlines, there surely can be no better time for Hollywood to green-light a WarGames movie remake.
The 1983 cult classic stars Matthew Broderick as a hacker who nearly kick-starts World War III when he starts a virtual chess game with a government supercomputer.
Now, 18 years on, a remake is on the table with Seth Gordon, who directed the excellent The King of Kong documentary about obsessive Donkey Kong players, scheduled to take the helm.
However, far from being a shot-for-shot remake in the mold of every bad Horror redo of the last twenty years, Deadline is reporting that Gordon will have a "wide scope to create a new take" on the original.


Terrorism based
You have to wonder whether the recent activities of the high-profile hacking groups have convinced studio movie MGM to get their skates on with getting this remake commissioned?
The US and UK governments have also been talking up the threat of cyber terrorism in recent months, with the Pentagon looking to reclassify cyber attacks as an act of war.
We're interested to see in which direction Gordon takes the much-loved original. The Deadline report says it's likely to focus on terrorism.
If Green could somehow get get mid-eighties club lovely Ally Sheedy to reprise her role in her original youthful guise, then we'd really be in business.

Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/hacking-movie-wargames-set-for-remake-970778#ixzz1QEjDi5YU

Yet another remake - will be interesting to see how they re-boot this one.

Glico Man

I absolutely love the original, will be very interesting as to how they do this one.

_Kaiser_

Sounds like yet another generic-(cyber)-terrorism, go-USA effort that we've seen so much of since the 9/11 attacks.

There are some films that shouldn't be remade .. this is one of them. The whole innocence and charm that was such a part of the original will no doubt be lost in an effort to be "moody and edgy/realistic"

All these remakes/reboots/prequels etc of the last few years with very few exceptions (Batman, Star Trek) imo have been nowhere near as good as the originals... is Hollywood really that bereft of originality these days?

I suppose you only need look at the wall-to-wall celebrity/reality crap that fills the TV schedules (often at the expense of actual original drama/sci-fi etc) to answer that one though...

Chris Hansen

Feckin loved this film!!!


BUT:

It suited the times, I think it wouldnt be great as the first

dlofnep

It won't have a scratch on the original. I still have the VHS of it