A 60+ year old Travis? What would he be doing now??
It is going to be a sequel of “The Five Obstructions” were Von Trier’s asks a director to remake his film five times, each time with different rules/obstructions set by von Trier.
I didn’t get that at first, but that way it makes a lot more sense…
He’d have his own show on FOX.
I’d argue that I feel more sympathetic towards Bickle than Oliver North, if that’s what you mean :P
It’s probably just talk at this point. Scorsese’s next project is The Invention of Hugo Cabret and then Silence and then he’s reteaming with De Niro for The Irishman. I don’t see where he has the time to put the effort into a remake especially of TD.
A roundtable discussion with Glenn Beck, Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin, Juan Williams (for color, dont’cha know?) and Travis. Yes, David, I can certainly see that.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Scorsese? That doesn’t sound like him at all. If it were Gilliam, I’d say, “bring it on”. This sounds way outside Scorsese’s ken.
I get a completely different vibe about Travis, based on his words and actions.
Would he not be, by now, bestest, bestest buddies with Tim Robbins and Ward Churchill?
Cruising around town in his OWN car, Rage Against the Machine on his Ipod.
As for the remake, only an undiscerning film festival junkie hopped up on Red Bull
could muster as much enthusiasm for this hideous idea as has Slashfilm’s Brendon Connelly.
As my British friends like to say: Brave.
And it’s not a compliment.
Von Trier got so fat.
Better than Raging Bull II.
Moderated
taxi driver 2: taxi never sleeps
I think the lower east side has lost its seedy appeal just a tad bit since the original was filmed. They would have to find a new location for it to take place.
Well if anyone is going to pull off the impossible it is Scorsese (we all know he has the talent), but making a sequel to a quintessential film classic seems to be about as good of an idea as licking a burning hot stove.
Why stop at Taxi Driver 2? What about -
Citizen Kane 2
The Passion of Joan of Arc 2
Grand Illusion 2
Casablanca 2
2001: A Space Odyssey 2
Andrei Rublev 2
etc.
wasn’t 2010 a sequel to 2001?
Wow I forgot that movie was even made. Kubrick had nothing to do with it though, not to mention the movie was downright terrible and destroyed every bit of enigmatic brilliance that 2001 had to offer.
You all know that this isn’t a straight sequel or remake right?
Its much more a sequel to The Five Obstructions than Taxi Driver.
This just in:
Jodi Foster has declined to participate and von Trier has announced her role will be played by a talking animal – species as yet to be determined.
JESUS Fuggin’ CHRIST!!! – leave well enough alone, what an awful idea in every way possible, especially any involvement from that scumbag, Von Trier…. What brilliant ideas will he bring to the character- have a 60-year old Travis molesting and torturing a naked 13 year old prostitute for the duration of the film, to prove how “cutting-edge” and “controversial” he is…
Time for retirement, people, if this all you can come up with anymore…
Citizen Kane 2, Casablanca 2, ha ha! What brilliant ideas!
Yeah, I already view KING OF COMEDY and BRINGING OUT THE DEAD as kind-of, weird, quasi-sequels to TAXI DRIVER.
And why hasn’t this been turned into my idea for a Victorian era NYC remake of TAXI DRIVER…HANSOM CAB DRIVER? It would be better than GANGS OF NEW YORK.
“I got some bad ideas in my head”
, , , this is one of them.
“Jodi Foster has declined to participate and von Trier has announced her role will be played by a talking animal – species as yet to be determined.”
Was Julianne Moore too busy?
Perhaps von Trier will decide to ditch the sequel and go for the shot-by-shot remake ala Gus Van Sant instead…with Dakota Fanning in Foster’s role and Russell Crowe as Travis, naturally…
Perhaps von Trier will decide to ditch the sequel and go for the shot-by-shot remake ala Gus Van Sant instead…with Dakota Fanning in Foster’s role and Russell Crowe as Travis, naturally…
Oh I can’t wait! =D
Maybe he’ll have r. de niro build a cabinet
then shove the cabinet up his ass
in 3d?
“Was Julianne Moore too busy?”
belly laugh HAHAHAHAHA!
/film reported this rumor dead.
^^
Well, it was fun while it lasted…
>>wasn’t 2010 a sequel to 2001?<<
Yeah. And based on a book that was only the first of several sequels written by Arthur C. Clarke…
woah! huh….. what WOULD a old travis do?
satans fingers
uhhhhh….what? http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/15/scorsese-von-trier-taxi-driver