It’ll be over twenty years since the original came out when this finally hits but Warner Bros. is set to reboot the film that went big, real big, back in 1992 with The Bodyguard. Deadline New York is reporting that Warner Bros. is going forward with a rebooted version that will bring the male lead as an Iraq war veteran just out from service having to protect the celebrity, who they want to have cast as someone that’s an up and coming female performer, that has to deal with a very different world in which protection exists because of social media technology and more. The featuer is having its scripting handled by Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer with Lin Pictures producing.
A reboot like this is a double edged sword. If they just went with a new name and kept the basic concept, they’d be called a ripoff. If they reboot it, they get grief for either having no original ideas or that it’s “too soon” for a remake of it. Personally, I think it’s a movie that can be easily updated and in an interesting way because of the technology aspect where there’s so many more ways to track a person, stalk them and get closer these days. Taking a look at it in this form, while tying it to the obvious and expected love story, gives it a fresh feel and should work well. The film will be saddled with comparisons no matter what and will find itself getting into even more when they start casting since both Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston made it such a global phenomenon back in 1992.
