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'Vacation' Reboot Headed Your Way
Get ready to head back down that holiday road, Spillios. It looks like 'National Lampoon's Vacation,' the seminal family road comedy, is getting a reboot. New Line has been planning a reboot for a while with a script already finished. Apparently the studio execs liked the script quite a bit because they're now negotiating with writers John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein to direct the film as well. Daley and Goldstein also wrote New Line's highly lucrative 'Horrible Bosses' last year and will also be penning the upcoming sequel. The reboot will evidently center on a now grown Rusty Griswold who experiences mishaps and hijinx as he tries to take his own family on vacation. No official deal has been made as of this posting.
The propensity for movie geeks to automatically bitch about remakes/sequels/reboots notwithstanding, this is a prime example of a reboot we don't need. It's really an unfortunate situation for the writers creatively, though I'm sure it will make a killing at the box office, because they're locked into a damned-if-they-do-damned-if-they-don't situation. They can't follow the formula of the franchise anymore, and yet their only real alternative approach is inherently weak. Fantastic as he is on 'Community,' Chevy Chase is a little too old to pull off the slapstick that epitomized the original 'Vacation' and its progeny, and recasting for a remake scenario would draw nothing but unfavorable comparisons to the original leading man. So they go the only route they have left, let the younger characters age and focus on them. The problem there is that nobody cares about Rusty Griswold. The focus of the original film series was so much on Chevy Chase that they actually recast Rusty several times throughout the franchise and nobody seemed to mind. So how now are we going to be expected to care about the recycled shenanigans he gets into with his own family? Plus, you just know they are going to shoehorn in a sad cameo from Chase that will only remind us of the hilarious 'Vacation' films we aren't watching. I know, I know, I'm judging the film before it's released and that is admittedly unfair. However my honest opinion is that we categorically do not need this reboot.
What do you guys think? Could this 'Vacation' reboot concept succeed? Would you pay to see it?
Source: THR
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Comment by Steve Holt! on March 1, 2012 at 7:17pm -
I have very low expectations for this, my love fore the vacation movies is due to Chevy Chase and my ultimate milf crush Beverly D'angelo.
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Comment by Gabriel T Brown on March 1, 2012 at 5:04pm -
Didn't we already see something like the with the 2010 super bowl commercials? I enjoyed those but that's as much of a sequel/reboot as i want to see.
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Comment by Kim on March 1, 2012 at 12:49pm -
I think they could very well bring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'angelo back except this time, they're grandparents. It could be a road trip they could be taking with Rusty, Audrey, their spouses, and kids. I would find that pretty interesting to watch (and it would more likely be very funny). Anything else would just flop. The problem with complete reboots is that it will ALWAYS draw those unfavorable comparisons to the original. Some people might love it, but everything written or said about it will harken back to the original. The reboots just need to stop even though it's quite obvious now that there's very little originality left in Hollywood.
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Comment by the Mindful Lunatic on March 1, 2012 at 11:36am -
How is this a reboot? This is going to focus on Rusty as the father figure, and Clark is going to be older. It's a sequel, but it's also kind of like a new vacation series for a new generation without being a remake. That's MUCH better than remaking it in my book.
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Comment by N/A on March 1, 2012 at 11:32am -
Why???? Not every movie in the universe needs a frigging' remake....
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Comment by Cranky Old Dude on March 1, 2012 at 12:06am -
No, no, hell no, fuck no, just what part of "NO" don't they get. Try putting the story out as say a short story, a graphic novel and if those click well then maybe. Let the internet shape the story (like "Snakes on a Plane" then maybe. Have the fans shape a remake. I would vote to strap Grandpa (Chevy) on the roof, drive his head into a low bridge? Maybe have him senile, getting into trouble along the way, poop in his drawers in the car? Wait, put grandpa in the doggie car carrier, strap it to the roof of the car (al la Romney's dog) have him do something rude from the roof onto the window?? Like Romney family pet? OK, maybe we have something here.....
As for the "Blazing Saddles" comment below, have grandpa set fire to a saddle on a pack horse going down the grand canyon? Maybe we can see how many ways we can kill off grand pa, kinda like "Kenny" in South Park: 'Oh no we killed grandpa"
yeah I know, I am a sick old fart but the ideas of these lame, cash grab reboots makes me "Cranky"
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Comment by Marc Burroughs on February 29, 2012 at 11:00pm -
Does every great old movie need a reboot,what's next Blazing Saddles.
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Comment by MacKenzie C. Mercer on February 29, 2012 at 11:18am
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Didn't we already get a 'Vacation' reboot in "Little Miss Sunshine"?
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Comment by BlackMagic on February 29, 2012 at 8:59am -
I have to agree, if they're focusing on a pre-established character who is now grown up, how is this a reboot? If it's relatively the same plot, this should be called a sequel. But to call it a reboot when you're just shifting focus on a different character, that sounds like cheating.
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Comment by stalksthemoon on February 28, 2012 at 11:09pm -
um, how is it a reboot if it's focusing on Rusty? Wouldn't that make it another sequel?
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