I don’t mean to be all soft and sentimental but I do miss seeing the great Sean Connery on the big screen, he should return to acting again and it’s not fair to us that his last movie was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, that’s not going out in a blaze of glory. Speaking of the manliest man, according to Variety and Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. and Hollywood Gang Productions are collaborating to remake the 1981 Peter Hyams-directed sci-fi thriller OUTLANDER.
Scottish Bond, Sean Connery starred in the original version as a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io, who uncovers a murderous conspiracy threatening the entire outland, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder. He’s a week away from retiring and returning to Earth with his wife but is forced to choose between walking away or taking on a private army.
Movie fans have called it High Noon in space.
OUTLAND the remake will be directed by Michael Davis who helmed the fire power fun action flick Shoot ‘Em Up.
And the script will be written by Chad St. John
They’re planning to stay true to the themes of the original movie but they’ll expand the concept and the space frontier.
Spielberg couldn’t get Connery to come out of retirement for Indiana Jones 4, it would be absolutely awesome if he’d come back for this. Hell even Charlton Heston did a cameo in Tim Burton’s version of Planet of the Apes.
Here’s the old trailer for the 1981 OUTLANDER
