Without Remorse - 2021 Film - Michael B Jordan in "re-imagining" of Tom Clancy's Book.

[ianh]

"Set to be released via Amazon prime on April 30th, this is a re-imagining of Tom Clancy's 1993 best seller starring Michael B Jordan as John Kelly, a SEAL involved in an international conspiracy after a home invasion goes wrong"

I'm a huge Clancy fan so, irrespective of how well this movie turns out it'll never be Canon to me, just like all the other movies aren't Canon, even though I like the earlier ones. From the trailer this looks to be just another "Generic Action Movie" although hope I'm wrong as rate Jordan quite highly when he brings his A game (The Wire & Black Panther for example).

The original story is a best seller for a reason so, while I understand maybe updating the story's time period (Vietnam becomes Iraq/Afghan etc), the actual story itself didn't need to change anything else as everything else is still relevant to today yet, as per current Hollywood Lore, the makers have decided to buy an IP, strip away everything that made it popular just to keep the Title and Character name and attach it to pre-written "generic action movie number 376" hoping that fans of the IP will flock to see it.

This style of "bait and switch" approach to a book IP has failed with almost every film that I can think of, with only WWZ being the exception as it did very well despite being a generic Zombie movie rather than being based on the IP that they paid for.

I'm only glad that some IP's like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter etc were bought to life by companies who actually cared and wrote the stories based on the IP rather than being a generic cash-grab.

 

[ianh]

I'm still hoping for a high quality made for TV series of Red Storm Rising though!

If someone like HBO did it in the style of Band of Brothers/Chernobyl etc I think it'd be amazing but my guess would be that a mid-80's "Cold War" series wouldn't be exciting enough for any studios to OK it or anything like it.

 

[ianh]

Also

Spoiler: Sequel

excited about rainbow six but it was a bit out of nowhere "oh hi John" "yes I'm back and I've decided to make an international team of counter terror dudes called rainbow" lol

I would have been extremely hyped for a "sequel" movie had this film been based on the Novel but, as this one was just a bland generic cash grab with zero reference to the book other than the title and character names, I have zero confidence that any "sequel" film will be anything other than yet more generic bland crap, unworthy of the "sequel" name.

I know I said this in my "what film did you watch" review but what kind of dribbling idiot thinks that buying the rights to a multi-million best selling book but then gutting it of everything that made it sell millions and just cut/pasting the name/characters into a bland generic "film by numbers" action film is a great idea that will generate hundreds of millions for their company?

 

[ianh]

Despite cutting out huge chunks, conflating some characters etc at least the older films seemed to make some sort of attempt to base themselves around a truncated version of the original plot. But if you took this film and renamed both it and the characters, you wouldn't even associate it with the book.

As mentioned on it's release.........................

what kind of dribbling idiot thinks that buying the rights to a multi-million best selling book but then gutting it of everything that made it sell millions and just cut/pasting the name/characters into a bland generic "film by numbers" action film is a great idea that will generate hundreds of millions for their company?