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MISSING IN ACTION No Longer Missing In Action!!
Merrick here...
MGM & WWE are resurrecting the MISSING IN ACTION franchise.
Seems they're talking about a straight-to-video thingie. I'm sure these plans will change, and this title will eventually receive a vastly more appropriate IMAX release.
The new film will be updated to reflect modern military realities and will be set during the current Iraq War. World Wrestling Entertainment, which has beefed up film development under its WWE Studios banner, will produce the new "Missing" pic along with Andrew Stevens ("Heist").
...says THIS PIECE in Hollywood Reporter.
But will they have the stones to equal this?
You probably recall that the original films (MISSING IN ACTION, MISSING IN ACTION 2: THE BEGINNING, and BRADDOCK: MISSING IN ACTION III) starred Chuck Norris pre WALKER, TEXAS RANGER - a series which subsequently led to his not being cast as Red Forman in THAT 70s SHOW.
"Now, the secret of his rage can be revealed!"
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He kicks and punches with his hands and his feet.
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not that it really matters though, this is a grade C talkback
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It will be a sanitized version without any of the 1980s era of ass-kickery in it. Damn them, damn them all to hell. What's next? A remake of American Ninja? Kickboxer? WWE Studios might become the Platinum Dunes of 1980s action movies...
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And can he continue to wear jean shorts in Iraq? Please.
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Hollywood...stop remaking "B" movies. Hey, I love Chuck Norris, but MIA was a sub-par Rambo.
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I'd just to say that even though you got a Grade C talkback, you owned it. Your first two posts were both really funny. Well done.
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This will be almost as good as a straight to video Gymkata remake
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Was released by Intrada records!
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otherwise, fail
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No stones for that. Maybe some CGI gophers?
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...and the mouse will chew the ropes and help him escape.
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Nah, they won't do that either. Perhaps a chair .... or ladder? Or pile drive?
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This franchise turned a tiny profit but never the MILLIONs ROCKY, RAMBO or TERMINATOR made!
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..cause this is gonna bomb.
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March 6, 2009, 11:34 a.m. CST
As long as he get a bag full o' RATS tied to his head...
by Bob Cryptonight
That is MIA canon!
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. . . be as ballsy as Stallone w/ it, and its a theatrical release.
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I can't seem to recall these films at all..............
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And yes, they actually used a real rat for that scene.
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Sorry, still channelling the Watchmen cartoon...
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Chuck with 2 mac-10's
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I love that flick. Leave it alone.
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MIA remake = DOA
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March 6, 2009, 12:33 p.m. CST
You can't remake Missing in Action without Chuck Norris
by DarthBakpao
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straight to hell and right in the ass.
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I heard Chuck Norris invented text messaging on the set of Invasion USA ,as a way to keep up with his cast and crew. Seriously though,MIA was the bomb.Alot better than those Delta Force sequels.
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Instead of saying dumbass, was he throwing roundhouses at Eric? Nice.
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March 6, 2009, 2:35 p.m. CST
Awesome, but it aint nothing without a hairy arsed Chuck Norris!
by KillaKane
God I loved watching those Golum Globus Chuck Norris flicks as a nipper in the 80's, still a guilty pleasure fix of action cheese. But a franchaise reboot? Who's got the mullet, squat build and steely glint that can measure up to the testosterone of Chuck Norris?
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Kickboxer remake?<br> China O'Brien reboot?<br> With Chuck Norris this could be worth a watch but without him what is the point?
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March 6, 2009, 2:57 p.m. CST
Re: You can't remake Missing in Action without Chuck Norris
by Acquanetta
We could probably extend that to include MIAs as well.
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March 6, 2009, 4:45 p.m. CST
Geez why not a movie about catching Saddam Hussein?
by Itto Ogami loses Daigoro
oh because modern day war movies don't get butts in seats.
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No one watched that shit and no one will watch this shit
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Yeah I really want to see a MIA remake starring some roided out wrestler. Chuck Norris was the shit in his early movies. All I have to say is Lone Wolf McQuade!
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All the POWs have been rescued, but Braddock still has restless nights. He must now go back and rescue his prized stash of vietnamese vodka and scotch he left back in 69 when he was but a young buck rubbing elbows with Shadow Company's Lt. Martin Riggs and the Green Berets John Rambo, as well as Jack "Glimmer Man" Cole (who wasn't military just a bad ass motha fucka who loved the bush), and Captain Benjamin J. Willard. He was also a rival to Cololnel Kurtz back when both were humping it over that course. Man this shit writes itself!
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I'd pay to see that!
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shit out of luck
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Funaki!
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Silent Rage come back.
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The Good Guys Who Wear Black...are Back!..(co-starring James Franciscus as Brent)
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and make a movie where he plays himself, oh wait... that is every chuck norris movie. except in his movie, chuck would just randomly roundhouse anybody who crossed his path... basically it would just be 2 hours of a camera crew following him. the best scene would be when he kicks a burger king employee in the nuts... whilst sitting in his car in the drive through... because well, the dumb kid forgot to offer him onion ring sauce... and you don't do that shit to chuck norris. yes his foot goes through his own car door and a brick wall to kick the guy in the nuts. he is chuck norris afterall.
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As in the original MIA universe, Chuck would have already dealt with the middle east, and there wouldn't have been a first gulf war let alone a second... :P
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Wasnt he "The Bastard" and Kirk Douglas son in "The Fury"?
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Amy Irving was so jack-offable in "The Fury"..
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I LOVE that movie. One of my favorite Norris things of all time. It's got all kinds of kick-assery from start to finish. Fans of the action 80s know this to be true!<p>Hunter: Didn't work, huh?<p>[throws terrorists their own bomb]<p>Hunter: Now it will.<p>[detonates bomb, killing them all]
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"Chuck Norris was a great man... but that was another life." DUN, DUUUUN!
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Who remembers the Chuck Norris cartoon from the 80's?
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you know Shia will be in this, too
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