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How about a reboot?

posted 11 years ago by TNM1776
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Since the reboot of Killer Elite and Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpha how about a reboot of Cross of Iron? If so? here is an ideal cast for it.

Sgt. Rolf Steiner role: Kiefer Sutherland or Russell Crow

Capt. Stransky role: Christopher Waltz or Steven Seagal (maybe it will jump start his career again)or James Spader.

Col. Brandt role: Arnold Schwarzenegger or Martin Sheen or Edward James Olmos

Capt. Kiesel role: Damian Lewis or Paul Bettany

Eva role: Sharon Stone or Catherin Zeta-Jones or Natalie Portman

Feel free to add to the list or what's your ideal cast of the reboot?

[–] bjorn5 10 years ago

Most of your suggested actors are too old for their historical counterparts. The real Sergeant Steiner, Johann Schwerdfeger, was born in 1914. Steven Seagal is a douche; his career shouldn't get a jump. A reboot could use German actors; given that Thomas Kretschmann is typecast as "German officer", he should have a slot in a reboot.

The question is whether any remake should stay closer to the novel.

[–] ScopeWatcher 10 years ago

I think the real question is why any remake is needed at all. It's not as if this original has been widely seen, and a modern remake would hardly be better. Is the original poster just hoping to see the same story with better-known modern actors?

Push for seeing something worthwhile and original -- not more rehashes.

Most great films deserve a more appreciative audience than they get.

[–] bjorn5 10 years ago

yes, it isn't as if WW2 lacks stories to be told.

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

Personally I am all for...
Das Re-Boot!

Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

[–] Ehrgeiz 10 years ago

Yeah, but Coburn was also too old for the role. Don't get me wrong, I think that was Coburns greatest performance ever, I think, but the character in the book as the real life model were in their late 20ies if I recall correctly. Coburn was over 40 and you see it and that would be quite a little too old to be realistic. Never mind, he was alright for the role.

[–] nickm2 10 years ago

Well even if Steiner was in his twenties, the stresses of war would probably make him look pretty, 'grizzled' & war weary, so the actor could probably have a decade tacked on to his actual age.

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[–] Ehrgeiz 10 years ago

To the main theme: this is a movie so unique I would not like to see a remake ever. This goes especially for the great battle scenes, shot in Peckinpahs famous slo-mo way, which they would not do ever again.

[–] ridge-m-1 10 years ago

Why attempt to remake a masterpiece. Get a Blu-ray copy, pop some corn, have a Coke and enjoy the greatest anti-war movie ever made!

[–] gasivodo 10 years ago

[–] knifemagnet 10 years ago

no. we need less reboots, rehashing, and sequels and more creativity in that industry.

[–] SuperDevilDoctor 9 years ago

If the film was ever remade -- and they again went with the interpretation of Steiner as a middle-aged man (in the novel he's only about 26 or 27 years old), then I think Daniel Craig would be good casting.

Send her to the snakes!

[–] nickm2 9 years ago

Whomever it is, he has to look tough enough to chew nails & eat ground glass.

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[–] raf-33 8 years ago

Sounds more like a remake than a reboot with all of the Americans you have cast...

It would be nice if Americans left a non-American movie alone on occasion.

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[–] nickm2 8 years ago

Don't care about the actors laddie but director & the scriptwriter MUST NOT be a German-Their post modern guilt ridden political correct weepy-ness makes German War fiction intolerable.

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[–] gasivodo 8 years ago

YUP! CGI and in 3D GO-Go-go?!?