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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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Tags: Chase, Chevy, Daley, Francis, Goldstein, John, Jonathan, Lampoon, Line, National, More…New, Vacation, reboot

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Comment by stiver on February 28, 2012 at 3:02pm
Aww yeah, Vegas Vacation remake, Finally!
Comment by BLAM! on February 28, 2012 at 2:44pm

It's not the end of the world, after seeing that Three Stooges preview, I'm hoping this really means that comedy is returning to it's good old fashioned Slapstick roots.

Imagine more stunts that are actually well orchestrated hilarious parts of films again. Hell, at least going back to at least 10 years ago would be nice. 

I'm on the fence with this JC's response is = to mine

Comment by Cedric W on February 28, 2012 at 2:04pm

Has no one read the actual concept of the movie. I would say this would be more of a continuation, based solely on the concept, than a true reboot. Considering this would be centered around Rusty, it could be interesting. I'm not sure why its not possible to include a cameo from Chevy, as the concept still leaves it open for him to show.

Comment by Genmasho on February 28, 2012 at 1:26pm

The could pull it off by having it be Rusty's (the son in the movies) vacation and having Chevy in it for a cameo at the beginning and end. Also as the Spill Crew has said time and time again, a reboot/remake will never destroy the original so fuck it, let them remake it and if its good then great, if it sucks (like it most likely will) than it fade away and be forgotten. 

I just really want them to drop the "National Lampoon's" from the title. That name is now scarred with all of the "college" direct to dvd movies that suck. 

Comment by HomeMadeBoss on February 28, 2012 at 1:06pm

i was only joking when i said they should remake this movie -.-

Comment by JC on February 28, 2012 at 1:06pm

Comment by Boatloads1017 on February 28, 2012 at 1:02pm

I've just given up on Hollywood. There really is no creative low that they won't sink. 

Comment by TheGSXR on February 28, 2012 at 12:59pm

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Comment by Salty Carl on February 28, 2012 at 12:49pm
I don't agree with this being made at all, but if they go through with it, they need to get Ryan Reynolds to play Clark. He looks like a young Chevy Chase and can pull off some slap stick humor.
Comment by Blue Knux on February 28, 2012 at 12:39pm

>_> Damn you....just...damn you, Holloywood

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