Posted by jayembee on 12/13/06 21:55

Derek Janssen <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

> (Okay, I know "Good morning, Mr. Briggs" gets replaced, but what
> other changes were there besides the babe-rotation?)

Swapping out Martin Landau for Leonard Nimoy.

> Unfortunately, the First movie assumed we already knew the show
> by heart and tried to branch out,

Which is probably it's only saving grace. I'm not a big fan of
DePalma, but Robert Towne at least *tried* to write it Old School.

> and as for the Second...John Woo was *bragging* that he'd never
> seen the original series before trying to bring "his own approach"
> to the sequel. Gosh, you'd never know it. -_-

And Towne had gone on record as saying that Woo basically told him
what kind of stunts he wanted to put in the film, and asked Towne
to write the screenplay around them. And it shows. But Towne isn't
completely blameless, either, because even a lot of the non-stunt
scenes make almost no sense whatsoever.

-- jayembee

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