Idea on remaking “The Rock”
Ever since I saw “The Rock” last fall, I’ve thought of how it could be remade, and frankly, be made a helluva lot better.
My current idea: set it in modern times (or twenty minutes in the future), have Quentin Tarantino direct and write the script, have Hideo Kojima on as an advisor/screenwriter, still set it on Alcatraz but have a nuke replace the chemical weapons. Have it only be two hours long, but at an hour and fifty minutes in, throw in a huge plot twist by having everyone in the FBI/military monitoring center shot or captured by military personnel who are on orders from the President. Meanwhile, have two F-16s (or hell, F-18s-just make sure they are real-aka Navy, not mythical Air Force F-18s) on the way to blow Alcatraz up sky-high. Have the movie end ten minutes later with a mexican standoff, the President missing, and the F-16s just hours away from destroying the whole thing. Also throw in some crazy action scenes, some background info on everyone, lose the first 45 minutes-hour of the original movie by starting everything out on The Rock and let us figure out what the hell is going on, and have some commentary on the Long War, the breakdown of the military’s opinion of the civilian populace, and the growing distrust the Pentagon has of the White House.
Then release a sequel over a year later. Make people wait. But in the sequel, play with our expectations, kill some key characters off immediately, and have there be a huge showdown at the end between Sean Connery and Ed Harris (or whoever the big bad guy winds up being) on top of Federal Hall in NYC. Oh wait, that was MGS2. Well, have them have a ridiculous battle, off The Rock.
Just a thought…
