Posted by Darth Dobbin at 12.19.232.3 on June 29, 2000 at 16:23:34:
In Reply to: It's NOT going to be top box office posted by Tishel Aromatic on June 29, 2000 at 15:53:32:
name 6 people you know who saw the original SHAFT.
Do you think the target demographic for CHARLIES ANGELS has seen any episodes of CHARLIES ANGELS?
The tightrope walk of combining name recognition of an older intellectual property, and balancing that with "newness" of the day is a tough one.
Sam Jackson's mass appeal helped SHAFT be "emporers new clothes"-like-false-memory, retro-continuity a bunch of folk into thinking they had a fondness for the original SHAFT flix. (Which were, camp value aside, kinda bad.) Bill Murray is gonna make me see CHARLIES ANGELS. I was just suggesting that a similar principle be considered with this, while it is in its pre-infancy.
Granted, if you play the game wrong, you get WILD WILD WEST. But there is no reason to assume, at this blastula-stage of the game, that there is a cap as to how much box office the film can do.
I'm sure that Kev's ideas are great, and that he probably has a plan all out in his head, in any case. DAREDEVIL, thus far, has been my only chance to see Kev's writing applied to a different character, in a different milleu, & I was pleased as punch with his run on that. I'm sure that FLETCH will have the "secret weapon" that all the other films I've cited here probably lack- a killer & intelligent script.
Negative Nelly.