From cinemablend, Tom Selleck is as pissed off as the rest of us over "comedy" movie remakes of classic 70s and 80s action shows and he's not afraid to let anyone know about it. He tried for the longest time to get a genuine, up-to-date version of his hit 80s show Magnum P.I. made for the big screen. But with the "success" of spoof movies like Charlie's Angels and Starsky and Hutch, the studios immediately put the kybosh on the idea of a "serious" movie and instead demanded a comedy version, probably with a Will Ferrell cameo and John Cleese as Higgins. When asked about the possibility of making one of these painfully awkward cameo appearance in the upcoming comedy remake, similar to the one made by David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser in Starsky and Hutch, he said;"I tell you what worries me - because I love Magnum and we have loyal fans - is they take these TV show titles, and they buy them and they spend $100 million on special effects, and then they make fun of them and trivialize it. Then they try and get the actor who used to be in it to do some ridiculous cameo to prove to the audience that it's OK. And I will not do that."
Good on you Tom, it's about time someone took a stand and called the studios on this behaviour! And who better, or cooler, to do it than Magnum P.I. himself.
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Yes! Like the Fantasy Island post from a few days ago, it seems time to stop griping about retreading old TV properties and start griping about the standard mockery these movies deploy. I don’t want to see a comedic reading of an old serious cop show any more than I want to see a dramatic reading of Three’s Company. And I think we’re all tired of winks to the audience (as Seth McFarlane implied when he had Peter Griffin beat the crap out of Jimmy Fallon for looking at the camera in every sketch).
However, I don’t think of Charlie’s Angels as such a spoof, not the first one anyway. Certainly it’s got a heap of silly but, well…I freakin’ love that movie. I’ll admit that, just like Mission Impossible, I never watched the show so that fandom element doesn’t factor into my opinion.
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