10 Upcoming Movie Reboots Literally Nobody Is Asking For
Remember when nostalgia was actually good?
Hollywood's habit of remaking and rebooting anything they can get their hands on shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon, but luckily there are still plenty of movies out there that are deemed as untouchable, and will hopefully remain so for the foreseeable future.
That being said, while rebooting the likes of The Godfather, Jaws or Back to the Future would send movie fans into meltdown and result in many an angry mob sharpening their pitchforks, when handled correctly reinventing an established property can often turn out to be an inspired decision, as Batman Begins, the recent Planet of the Apes movies and Casino Royale have shown.
However, it often seems as though well-known movies are rebooted with the sole intention of milking every last cent out of a once-lucrative cash-cow, an approach personified by the failure of three new Terminator movies in the space of a decade.
We've come to accept that reboots are part and parcel of the cinematic experience these days, regardless of if they seem necessary or not, and there's plenty of projects set to roll off the production line in the coming years that look to deliver fresh takes on familiar material that we weren't even asking for in the first place.
10. The Chronicles of Narnia
When a slew of literary adaptations were green-lit in the wake of Harry Potter's success, most of them fell at the first hurdle, but for a while it looked like The Chronicles of Narnia might have been able to stick it out. The Lion the Witch and the Wardbrobe made almost $750m at the box office and went on to spawn two sequels, before the franchise just sort of fizzled out after 2010's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Fourth installment The Silver Chair was in the works for a while but never made it out of development hell, before it was announced in October 2018 that Netflix had purchased the rights to the series with the intention of creating both movies and TV shows based on the source material.
While Netflix have proven to be more than capable of dabbling in the fantasy realm, and they certainly have the endless cash reserves necessary to bring the world to life, nobody outside of the core fanbase has ever seemed particularly interested in the continued adventures of the Pevensie children.
The takings between the first and second movies dropped by over $300m despite being released just eighteen months apart, with reviews getting progressively worse, and while modern internet culture is rife with demands and petitions to reboot and resurrect dormant properties, The Chronicles of Narnia has never been one of them.