10 Movie Adaptations You Already Know Are Doomed To Disappoint

Yeah, yeah: this article is starting to look like an attack on Dwayne Johnson's career choices, but rest assured... that isn't the case. If anyone can make a Baywatch remake/adaptation work, it's him. You look at the trailer, and the people involved in the project, and you instinctively want to like this movie... You're rooting for it, even.

But let's face it: Baywatch wants to be the 21 Jump Street franchise, complete with meta gags and self-aware nods... it wants to repeat the same successes whilst riding on its coattails, complete with a new - and just as unlikely - buddy duo in Johnson and Zac Efron. Thing is, the trailer feels like one of those fake trailers you get in other comedy movies, with The Rock jumping off a boat, a massive CGI explosion behind him.

But this adaptation appears oddly late to the party, given that the "self-aware reboot" thing has started to feel a bit dated. No doubt there will be some laughs, but the approach has an awkwardness to it. Baywatch clearly hasn't been made for people who watched Baywatch during its prime - those people are well in their 40s now. So who's this for?