Film Land - 10 Series that should be Rebooted

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As we continue to burn our way through one of the most disappointing summers in recent memory (seriously 2016, get your act together) the subject of reboots has re-entered the popular forum of discussion.  At this point asking “the reboot question” has become something of a yearly tradition, with volleys of think pieces and lists fired off seemingly ever year with each new triumph or tragedy.  This year the reboot question is much more on the back burner, with most of the summer’s big hits and big failures being sequels. 

We’re still getting a few major reboots this year like WB’s disastrous Legend of Tarzan and the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot that inspired me to write this article.  We’ve had enough reboots over the last six years to know that sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t and there’s no easy way to know which, so I decided I’d throw together my top 10 series that should be rebooted.  Before we dive in, I’ll just clarify that this is only drawn from TV and movies and that by “reboot” I mean “an attempt to restart the franchise while actively distancing itself from the source material through modernization.”  With that said, here are my top 10 series that should be rebooted.

Top 12 Prequels Hollywood Should Make Instead of Die Hard

Edited by Robert Beach 

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s been some recent talk about making a new Die Hard film. The twist with this proposed 6^th installment of the most overrated action franchise the world has ever produced is it would be a prequel of some kind. Obviously, most folks have picked up on this as a terrible idea given that there’s really nothing for a Die Hard prequel to actually explore.  Everything interesting in the Die Hard universe started with the first film. 

There’s no point in extending the universe prior to that point as it’d more or less be the same as our world. That’s the thing about bad prequels, which is to say most prequels, is that they make the mistake of trying to follow a character back to a time when they were less interesting; however, this announcement has got me thinking about prequels that would be interesting to see, so here’s my top 12 prequels list.