Re: Bullitt Remake?
OK, say you are an actor, mid-20-to-30-something (too old for teen movies), with a going career but you haven't yet hit it big time. Someone approaches your agent with the lead role in a remake of "Bullitt." What are the chances that getting compared to Steve McQueen will improve your career, either through critical approval or unexpectedly strong sales?
Smart actors with a name wouldn't touch this because the chances of coming out with a win are so small, and they wouldn't cast a lesser-known actor who would, because you need the star name power to sell a remake.
Now big Hollywood, being a pit of cowardly and decidedly uncreative producers and studios, may view the success of the new animated movie "Cars" as some kind of a weird signal and look to remakes of auto-based classic movies as a way to easy money. This happens every time the one-in-ten sports movies that actually makes a profit rolls around -- you see a spate of other, less successful sports movies that perpetuate the myth that sports movies don't sell.