Capricorn One Remake: Sure to be Number Two
They’re cranking out remakes faster than I can make fun of them. This time it’s an LiC childhood favorite: Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One, the conspiracy thriller about a fake mission to Mars starring Elliot Gould, Sam Waterston, James Brolin, Hal Holbrook, Karen Black, Telly Savalas, Brenda Vaccaro and of course, O.J. “Stabby” Simpson.
Peter Buchman who most recently wrote Steven Soderbergh’s Che (The Argentine, Guerilla) wrote the screenplay and John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) is attached to direct.
Scott Von Doviak of ScreenGrab recently gave the original a nostalgic once-over and even mused that it hadn’t already been remade. Stop doing that Scott, someone is listening.
Source: Variety
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“Peter Buchman who most recently wrote Steven Soderbergh’s Che (The Argentine, Guerilla) wrote the screenplay and John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines) is attached to direct.”
I almost got excited for a second because Buchman might deliver a decent script, but then I saw Moore attached and lost all interest. Considering the renewed interest in Mars and what not the last few years, it makes sense they’re remaking this. More sense than say Deathrace 2000…not that I’m happy about the remake-athon.
Wow, this guy (Moore) sure likes to do remakes. First Flight of the Phoenix in ‘04, then The Omen in ‘06, now this. Or maybe he doesn’t like to do them, in which case it shows because they suck.
Look deeper into Buchman’s filmography and some of the initial enthusiasm wears off.
Somehow I’m less annoyed by this one than some of the other remakes, except on principle.
This one seems especially pointless because Capricorn One seems like such a product of the paranoid ‘maybe Apollo 11 was faked’ 70s. What are they going to do to update, cast Donald Rumsfeld as the villain? (Hopefully with a moustache)
Ding ding ding! You win a prize, Jeff.
I’m betting on a highly disliked war time president tries to capture the public’s imagination and distract attention from his political boondoggles by fast-tracking a mission to Mars. When NASA reports the mission will fail at the last minute, they make believe on a sound stage in LA and blah, blah, blah, you’ve seen this movie already.
Cheney, Bush, Rummy…all with twirling mustaches, top hats, and Condoleeza tied to the train tracks crying for help.
Joel~~
That twist would be that Condi was actually the mastermind behind the whole thing. After all, who would suspect the story’s Pauline to orchestrate her own peril?
Although if you consider the company she’s keeping, it might not be so hard to guess after all.
Loved this movie as a 10-year-old. Loved it.
I remember sitting around watching it on the Sunday Night Movie with the entire frickin’ family and thinking it was just perfect although I asked my parents, “Why does he keep calling the bad guys ‘mothers’?”
I have seen it since and realized that you really kind of have to be 10 to like it — that’s not necessarily a criticism, either. In fact it’s kind of the ethos of the Peter Hyams movie.
Sam Watterson and David Doyle are ham sandwiches. And I was surprised to discover that even in the uncut editions, Gould still says “mothers.”