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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 Kevin McMullin on February 28, 2012 at 11:06pm -
I can't put words into how I feel about this better than clark grizwold can,"Your all Fucked in the Head", and "Don't Touch".
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Comment by Ferry2dead on February 28, 2012 at 11:06pm -
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK HOLLYWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!! THEY CAN SUCK ON THE DEAD DOG THAT WAS DRAGGED BEHIND THE CAR DICK! Oh in case I forgot FUCK HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!!
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Comment by Ryan on February 28, 2012 at 7:00pm -
I hate that theres gonna be a reboot but theres nothing the fans can do to stop it, so Im just gonna vote Joel McHale for the lead if Anthony Michael Hall doesn't do it, hes been working with Chevy for 3 years and I think he would be good in it, and im glad its not being written by National Lampoon
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Comment by Mouse on February 28, 2012 at 6:54pm -
a travesty!!!!
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Comment by Swamp Music Players SMP on February 28, 2012 at 5:45pm -
Hate to say it but if they have a spark of vision they could make it worthwhile. If Rusty typify s the Gen X or Gen Y coming into family life, little more random, undefined and cynical....would not line up with the old one which I love but it really speaks to another generation
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Comment by ghostwriter on February 28, 2012 at 5:03pm -
I hated that movie. The so called joke about the dog being dragged behind the car was cruel.
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Comment by Genmasho on February 28, 2012 at 4:19pm -
@McGribble, a good idea might be to find the actor who played in each of the movies. If they are truly rebooting it than get the actor who played Rusty in Vegas Vacation to play him there, get the one who played him in Christmas Vacation to play him in that one. I dont think it would really work, but it could be entertaining to have a different lead for each one of the movies.
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Comment by Sam Hill on February 28, 2012 at 3:36pm -
I'd like to explode in rage, as I grew up on these movies, but it sounds less like a reboot and more a continuation of the series. Because Rusty's now the dad, it actually means Chevy can return as Grandpa!
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Comment by Allan, Dane of Thrones on February 28, 2012 at 3:29pm -
Wait, they're seriously doing a Horrible Bosses sequel?!
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Comment by McGribble on February 28, 2012 at 3:15pm -
Bad idea, The point of the kids is they always changed in every version. It was a running joke. ON numinous occasions they made jokes about it. I think it was Christmas Vacation when Clark called for Rusty when he is standing right in front of him, Rusty then say's "I'm right here dad". The look on Clark's face is obvious that he is meant to look confused because he is a different kid. So, to focus on Rusty as the main character is just dumb and makes no sense. Now what could be funny, if they had pictures around the house and had family pictures with Rusty portrayed by a different person in every one. That would be a great way to carry the joke through.
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