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EXCLUSIVE: Joe and are taking a breather from the Marvel world to adapt cult-classic film The Warriors as a one-hour drama with TV. The brothers will reimagine ’s iconic 1979 film, itself an adaptation of Sol Yurick’s classic novel. Their take will honor the original film while adding its own unique brand of grit, pulp, sex and violence. The Russo brothers will team with writer Frank Baldwin on the series.
The Russo brothers will direct the pilot, although no word yet as to any directing commitment beyond that.The film was set in 1979, at a time when parts of New York still resembled war-torn Mogadishu, torn apart by rivalry between deadly gangs. A charismatic leader summons these street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is shot and killed during the rally, one of the gangs, the Warriors, is falsely blamed for his death and its member must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them. Hill’s film remains a classic of its genre. Who, for example, can forget the psychotic character’s Luther call for the Warriors to “Come out to play”? The cast included Michael Beck and James Remar. Related StoryThe Russos are the cinematic equivalent of King Midas right now, having crushed the past two installments of Captain America — The Winter Soldier and the even more acclaimed Civil War.
The duo also are attached to direct Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War Parts I and II, and have a number of other high-profile projects in the pipeline as producers including Space Runners at Fox 2000, 17 Bridges at STX and a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair at MGM with Michael B. Jordan attached to star.The Warriors series will be a Paramount Television Production in association with the Russo brothers, Getaway Productions.
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Joe and Anthony Russo and Mike Larocca serve as producers. Lawrence Gordon (producer of the original film) is an exec producer on the new project. The brothers are repped by WME.Paramount TV has just wrapped Berlin Station airing on EPIX in the fall and is production on 13 Reasons Why for Netflix with Tom McCarthy directing.
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Everything you need to know about The Warriors (Remake). It turns out people really, really can dig The Warriors.Though, at the time of its release, the low-budget 1979 action movie was mostly known for inspiring a string of vandalism and violent acts.
Tarantino directing a Warriors remake sounds awful.Get someone like a Gareth Evans. Even then tho this seems Ill advised. The Warriors is such of a “of the time” film that I don’t know if it really works anymore out of the context of the time it was conceived and developed. You also don’t have the New York of the 70’s to use as your backdrop anymore.
So much of the attitude and feel of the movie comes from the texture of the city at the time. It would have to be a huge effort to try and get that back for a remake. It’s also a perfect film. Why mess with it.Give it to David Simon and turn it into a period drama for two tight 6 episode seasons.
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The original is still great. I don't mess with 99% of remakes. I rarely see the point and that would be the case here.It's a film about a particular cultural moment where NYC was this grime fest and people had this fantasy of the dirt and muck of a city at night, when innocent folks are asleep and the only people out on the street are either extremely dangerous or very unlucky.
We don't really have that image of NYC any longer.The movie is also a very delicate balancing act that would be hard to pull off again.on the one hand, it's tough and dirty, and on the other, it's filled with pop absurdity and comic book-isms. It’s as silly and outrageous as it is rough and violent. I wouldn't trust Tarantino with that cocktail, he'd skew way too hard into the pop absurdity of it. Walter Hill was the GOD of achieving that balance.
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