CAN YOU DIG IT ?

So, the infallible mouth of the internets has told me that there is indeed a Warriors remake in the works. Discussion about the possibility of a remake had been floating around the interwebs for a few years before solidifying when Tony Scott announced he would be making the remake.

What will be new in the remake? Well, according to an interview with MTV, Scott is going to completely do away with the campy style of the gangs and change the venue from New York to LA. The general plot of the movie will stay the same but, get this, Scott wants to use real gangs from LA in his film:

"The opening of 'The Warriors' now begins on the Long Beach Bridge, and it's going to look like the L.A. marathon," Scott said of the script, which relocates the story of the titular gang attempting to get home to its turf after being mistakenly accused of murdering a rival gang leader. "You'll still get the same story, but we're reconstructing the family, reconstructing the characters, and I'm doing it in L.A. The original was in New York and everything went upwards; L.A. goes [length-wise]. And instead of 30 gang members, there's going to be 3,000 or 5,000."

Word. Forget about the Warriors remake for one second, that sounds pretty badass on its own merit. I hope things continue to go in this direction, because an attempt to recreate the original warriors would just fail immensely. For one, nobody would take the baseball furies or the high hats seriously, they would just get knifed, beaten, sodomized, and shot (not necessarily in that order).



Granted, the number of gang members he mentions and the fact that no one has heard much about the project besides the usually film-nerd backchatter does not bode well for the reality of this project. Also deflating my boner is the recognition that Scott has directed such cinematic flatulence as Days of Thunder, The Fan, and Man on Fire. That being said, it could still be good if it actually gets done. Hopefully he won't go faggot on us and back out after meeting Smiley and the gang from Training Day, or film it with that fast-cut and filter bullshit from Man on Fire.