Looks like both The Long Good Friday and The Sweeney are being remade and are due for release in 2008.
Mark my words, only bad will come of this.
The Long Good Friday is the most worrying of the two. Not only is Paul W. S. Anderson attached to direct but the hole shebang has been relocated to Miami. Now give that a few moments to sink in. Miami. How the fuck is that going to work?
You’ve got a director that’s so shit he managed to fuck up Alien Vs. Predator, which if he’d actually stuck to the Dark Horse story would have been amazing, and to top it off they’ve moved the whole thing to Miami. Why?
As for The Sweeney, I’m reserving judgment on that for the moment. The big rumour is that Ray Winstone is going to be Regan and Carter might be played by Danny Dyer. This is all well and good but The Sweeney was a piece of its time, the 1970’s were integral to the stories and it just wouldn’t be The Sweeney if it were set in any other time.
Face it, The Sweeney in the eighties is The Bill, in the nineties it’s Homocide: Life On The Streets and in the noughties it’s The Shield. Unless they make this a period piece it’s fucked, at best it’s something other than The Sweeney.
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