Craig Zablo

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Sounds like some sleezy come-on made to a teenage runaway, right? Well, it’s not.

While you may not make it to the final cut, you can have the opportunity to be on the set for filming of Rocky Balboa! [That’s Rocky VI to those keeping score.]

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Just think, you could be on the set with Sly Stallone, Antonio Tarver, and other stars as they film the climatic battle… and who knows, you could even find yourself in the movie!

Some SZoners have already signed up to be there… will you be next?

The news about a new Wild Bunch movie is making its way around the net and I’m really surprised about the anger some folks have about it being made.

Sure, I expected the usual, “Hollywood has run out of ideas” and the simple “this sucks” posts from those that are inclined to negative coments. What really gets me is the genuine anger some people seem to work up about a movie that has yet to start filming.

I don’t know. Maybe it’s an act… a rant to get people to read his posts… maybe it’s genuine. Either way, he’s not alone.

Some people always get offended when “classic” movies are remade. But what’s the fuss? I mean, really, what’s the fuss?

Sure, maybe the remake will suck. Some, maybe even most do. But sometimes they don’t and then we end up with a gem. I know it’s sacrilege, but I like the Dawn of the Dead remake better than the original… and I liked the original.

How many of you love these classics: The Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland or The Maltese Falcon? Anyone here looking forward to “King Kong”? Remake, remake and yep, re-make.

I could understand the anger if doing a remake somehow erased the original movie. Heck, I’d be upset myself, if it even changed the original. But a remake doesn’t. If anything, it may even bring a new audience to the original.

So if you want to get mad about something, why not get mad about terrorism, or pollution, or ineffective politicians or something that can make the world a better place.

All this anger about movies that haven’t even been made yet is enough to… well… to make a guy angry.

It looks like David Ayer [screenwriter for “Training Day,” “Dark Blue“] will direct an update of “The Wild Bunch” based on his own script.

The original “Wild Bunch,” directed by Sam Peckinpah is considered a classic. The violent tale followed “an aging group of outlaws looking for a last score in the fading American West.”

Ayer‘s “Wild Bunch” will be set in modern day Mexico and deal with “heists, drug cartels and the CIA.”

While most folks seem upset that a “classic” is again being remade, I like the idea. Look at how good the “Dawn of the Dead“ remake turned out. What about Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds“? And we all know that Peter Jackson‘s remake of “King Kong”is going to rule.

Think of the possibilities of an aging group of rouges down in modern day Mexico for one last score. Let’s work up a dream cast… say Stallone, Danny Trejo, Michael Madsen, Mickey Rourke, Denzel Washington and maybe even DeNiro.

I’ve really liked all of Ayer‘s screenplays [“U-571,” “The Fast and the Furious,” “Training Day,” “Dark Blue“, “S.WA.T.“]. “Harsh Times”, is getting great advance reviews and “Training Day” is one of my favorite movies of the last few years. Ayers has a proven track record, so I say, let’s see what he can pull together. This is one movie I’m going to keep an eye on.

Especially if he can get a dream cast.