Reboots Are Here To Stay: Amazon Currently Looking To Reboot Several Major Franchises, From 'Legally Blonde' To 'Stargate'
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When you buy something for $ 8.45 billion, you better make good use of your investment. In May 2021, Amazon entered into serious negotiations to buy Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). While the deal was officially closed in March 2022, it is only now that the first details on what the e-commerce giant might want to do with its new property begin to surface.
One of the reasons for this is the massive catalog of content that MGM has created in the nearly 100 years of its existence and to find out what could be suitable for future projects. The more daunting task is to sort out the complex structure of existing owner rights of all these intellectual properties.
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Amazon's approach to future MGM-based projects seems to be threefold: stories that will be made into TV series, stories that will be turned into movies (for the big screen or the small), and then some tentpole names will get both treatments.
Reportedly falling into the last category is RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven's 1987 rather brutal film about a police officer who is murdered on duty and then turned into a ruthless cyborg. It has already spawned two more family-friendly sequels (1990, 1993), a 2014 remake, four television series as well as video games, and comics. It seems that Amazon will look at a new Robocop television series before a further feature film.
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The next A-lister is Legally Blonde. The 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon as a law student who loves pink and fashion also led to a sequel, a spin-off movie, and a musical. There have been talks about a potential third movie for years, but it is unclear if Amazon will further pursue this project or create its own story.
Next on the list is Stargate. Roland Emmerich's 1994 sci-fi movie was followed up by two sequels and many television series. It is rumored that Amazon will produce a new Stargate movie before a new television show.
Other projects on Amazon's to-do list include the Barbershop franchise, Poltergeist, The Pink Panther, Fame, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Magnificent Seven, a further expansion of the Creed universe (with Michael B. Jordan), and even Sylvester Stallone's Rocky.
It is not known yet which of these projects will be sequels, remakes, or reboots and how far they will take the existing stories into account, but Amazon will be using its roster of exciting talents and bringing in some outside A-list creatives.
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