10 Films Hollywood Could Remake With All Female Casts

9. 48 Hrs

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The Originial: Detective Jack Cates (Nick Nolte), the only survivor of a shootout where his colleagues died, collects wise-cracking criminal Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) from jail for 48 hours to help him catch the killers.

The Remake: Wait a minute….hasn’t Hollywood already done this one? In Hot Pursuit, Reese Witherspoon was the by-the-book cop protecting Sofia Vergara, the widow of a drug lord, from gangsters as they drove across Texas. The critics were unkind, calling the picture “joyless and perfunctory”, “aggressively lazy” and “stupeyingly unfunny.”

Will It Work? See above. Or rather, don’t. “There isn’t one joke, sight gag or piece of slapstick tomfoolery that lands with any success or originality,” claimed the Washington Post. The movie currently has an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so don’t expect more of the same.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'