Warner Bros is rebooting its 1992 hit The Bodyguard, the film that paired Kevin Costner with Whitney Houston and became for its time one of the biggest global hits in studio history with a $411 million worldwide gross.
The film will be scripted by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer, whose action comedy script Family Getaway made the 2010 Black List and is a priority project at Warner Bros. Dan Lin will produce through his Lin Pictures banner, and Mark Bauch is co-producer.
Scripted by Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Mick Jackson, the original was a fairly straight ahead tale of a Secret Service agent (Costner in a Steve McQueen homage, down to his hairstyle) drafted to protect a singing diva whose life has been threatened by a stalker, then falling for her in a way he fears is a distraction from his job.
The new version is similar, including the love story, but here the bodyguard will be a former Iraq war veteran who gets the job protecting the star as his first gig after leaving the Army.
He discovers that the world of Twitter, Google Maps and TMZ has made access to celebrities easier than ever, making the job more difficult than ever. The goal is to take a young female singer with global appeal and give her the platform that The Bodyguard did Houston.
It becomes the second music-driven remake for the studio, which just got a commitment from Clint Eastwood to direct Beyonce. The studio is in the process of landing the male star.
Why, oh why must Hollywood continue to remake movies that do not need one (Dirty Dancing Havana Nights comes to mind).
Why not try working on a decent sequel of a movie that could really use one. Personally I'm still waiting for True Lies 2. (though I realize that at this point it will not happen at least not with it's original cast).
How about Finding Nemo 2?.
Like Dirty Dancing, The Bodyguard is a classic that should not be touched no matter who you cast, or who rewrites the script.
I miss the days when Hollywood came up with original scripts, rather then trying to relive the glory days by ruining the good ones.
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