10 Upcoming Movie Reboots That Are Doomed To Fail

2. Nobody Cares - The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Recognised property is studio exec shorthand for "people will come see this and we'll make a s**tload of money", but sometimes they can get confused in the distinction between something popular and something that simply existed at a previous point in time. Although the film itself was an utter trainwreck (that's a sly in-joke for the ten people who saw it), The Lone Ranger was fundamentally flawed from the start; it was based on a character the target audience would never heard of it and, as a big budget blockbuster, was far too removed from the original source to appeal to actual fans. The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which is also based on a sixties TV show that conjures up the same "I think I may have heard of that once" reaction from the general public, is very much in the same boat. It even has the Lone Ranger himself, Armie Hammer, as one of the leads. It's not just as a property that U.N.C.L.E. feels incredibly antiquated, however. The plot sees two spies, one American and one Russian, reluctantly teamed together by the titular organisation to take down. At the height of the Cold War, that was a great spin on the popular spy genre. Now it just looks like a desperate attempt to return to the days of old.