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If they give it the same nonexistent marketing, yeah.
'If at first you don't succeed...
Try, try again Mr. Wint.'
Though this isn't actually new 'news'.............Eon previously announced they were planning to adapt Remote Control in 2009 with Sony Pictures. Obviously, Sony have seen sense and departed. But for Eon to still be working on this some 11 years later is surprising.
Though there is certainly more money in generic Gerard Butler action films. More so than in Blake Lively action films - I'd have seen that film if it was actually playing in any cinemas! Also, this is the second Eon production to star Gerard Butler if there are any trivia fans out, there which Bond film is this from?
Story from 2009:
Sony Pictures Entertainment says it has has acquired the movie rights to "Remote Control," a thriller novel by Mark Burnell.
https://www.realitytvworld.com/news/sony-eon-team-up-for-remote-control-50068121.php
"Control" is to be produced as a feature film by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli's EON Productions, it was announced Tuesday by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures.
Ileen Maisel will join Wilson and Broccoli in producing the project, and Burnell will adapt his novel into the screenplay.
Sony and EON previously collaborated on the two most recent James Bond flicks "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace."
"Remote Control" is about a former war correspondent, now British corporate intelligence analyst, "who gets caught up in a conspiracy by Western corporations to destabilize the Chinese economy," Sony said in a news release.
"Following the trail to the United States, he discovers that his former lover is also being pursued. On the run together, they try to unravel the mystery of the conspiracy while trying to stay alive."
"Remote Control" is the second non-Bond property Sony Pictures is developing with Wilson and Broccoli. The studio is also collaborating with the producers on a new adaptation of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" with EON Productions and MGM.
Maybe he's the same character 20 years later :D
First Bond spinoff confirmed lol
He's the Doug McClure of the 21st century....
Indeed.
Sounds awesome!!!!!
When's the last time Butler made a good action/thriller flick? He's on a long run of B-grade CGI-fests. Why on earth did EON look at this script and say, "yes, this is a film that must be made."
The story follows Michael Rafter (Butler), a shiftless sponger whose life is overturned one night when he becomes too lazy and drunk to reach for the remote control, which has fallen off the couch.
Unwilling to get up, Rafter stretches his arm downward and falls onto the carpet, where is attacked by a gang of vicious dust-bunnies and a half-eaten pizza slice. Unable to reach another inch for the remote, Rafter finds himself drawn into fight against the clock when he realizes the next program is a double-bill of Die Another Day and Spectre.
With his brain cells in danger of being erased, Ranger shouts for his girlfriend to change the channel, but she has left him for their next-door neighbor, a film critic who hates Gerard Butler movies. Realizing his phone is several inches away from the remote control, Rafter must get up before Pierce Brosnan goes wind-surfing.
If I'm not mistaken (going by how long this has been on EON's Company page on IMDB), EON was attached to this earlier than Gerard Butler.
Hope this doesn't delay Bond 26
I quite liked DEN OF THIEVES, too - even though I preferred it when it was better and was called HEAT.
Hahaha this got me. Heat is also amazing