Warner Bros. May Remake ‘The Wild Bunch’ (Shoot Me) and ‘Westworld’ (Which is OK)
Posted on Thursday, January 20th, 2011 by Russ Fischer
When talking about the screenwriter hire for Warner Bros.’ proposed reboot of Lethal Weapon, I mentioned that there was a lot of potential remake news coming out of the studio today. Well, here’s the rest. [via THR] What happened is that exec Jessica Goodman, a 13-year vet at the studio, has left, and projects that were on her desk, or hidden at the bottom of one of her ‘to-do’ piles, have been distributed among other execs.
The result is a new lease on life for a handful of possible remakes that have been dormant for some time. They include Sam Peckinpah‘s seminal ‘end of the West’ film The Wild Bunch, the aforementioned Lethal Weapon reboot, and a new version of Westworld. Read More »
