Personally, I’d ditch the one-man army conceit and go back to the series’, not to mention the novel’s roots and focus on a troubled soldier simply trying to adjust to life back in the world. Luckily, there’s no shortage of those as everything for Gulf Wars 1-2 to Afghanistan could be used to produce a modern-day Rambo. In order to reboot the franchise, we’d have to ditch the traumatized Vietnam Veteran angle and bring the story forward a couple of decades to a more modern conflict. 50 caliber hell on those darn gophers plaguing his mother’s rose garden. Sylvester Stallone pretty much brought his second-most-famous character’s story to a close in 2008’s John Rambo, ending the movie with the tired soldier returning to his family’s farm for some much needed R&R, which he’ll probably spend by unleashing some. The rules are simple: we’re not making sequels, these must be franchises that have run their course financially or arrived at logical conclusions and the original cast must be ditched in its entirety, ensuring that no links to the original version survive, story elements and settings can be changed but the general plot must be unchanged. So without further ado, here is Yell! Magazine’s Top 10 Franchises That Need To Be Rebooted. Just this past month, we witnessed the attempted rebirth of the Conan franchise with Jason Momoa in Conan The Barbarian 3D. Such reboots are in the offing in 2012 for characters like Spider-Man (Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man), the Crow (Supposedly with Bradley Cooper in the Eric Draven role), Star Trek’s Chris Pine is in the running to star in Tom Clancy’s rebooted Jack Ryan franchise and Robocop, Tomb Raider, The Fantastic Four and countless others are gearing up for new versions of their respective movies. Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson might have been a back-handed pimp slap in the face of the character’s fans, what with the rampant murdering, gun use, and other things that are anathema to Bruce Wayne, but it raked in 100s of millions of dollars and earned its fair share of fans that were quite vocal in their lack of enthusiasm for Nolan’s reboot. On the other, it’s a fantastic way to alienate fans of the original material. On the one side, it’s a great way to rejuvenate your line, injecting some much needed adrenaline in a declining series. Made popular by Christopher Nolan’s revamped Batmanflicks, the ditching of casts, plots, and entire settings to start all over again seems to be the norm for long-running franchises. While remakes are all the rage in Hollywood these days, it seems like another genre is also getting some love: the complete franchise reboot.
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