Comments on: Neil Marshall to Direct The Professionals https://filmjunk.com/2010/04/23/neil-marshall-to-direct-the-professionals/ The World's Longest-Running Movie Podcast Fri, 24 Sep 2021 05:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.33 By: DavidM https://filmjunk.com/2010/04/23/neil-marshall-to-direct-the-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-768221 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:35:03 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=37063#comment-768221 The Professionals was perhaps closer to Starsky & Hutch than the A-Team. Marshall is angling for Michael Fassbinder as Doyle (the slightly more serious, sensible one, ie Hutch), and Eric Bana as Bodie (originally played as a real 70s smoothie – smarmy – womaniser. A wisecraking Starsky type). Could be good.

]]> By: Mike https://filmjunk.com/2010/04/23/neil-marshall-to-direct-the-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-766309 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:31:46 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=37063#comment-766309 meh, if natalie portman’s not in it, i’m not interested.

]]> By: Cwoodward https://filmjunk.com/2010/04/23/neil-marshall-to-direct-the-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-766294 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:09:24 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=37063#comment-766294 The ‘A-Team’ has distinctive characters with certain traits and different actors can play them and it can still be called ‘The A-Team’. However, the characters in The Professionals (all three of them) don’t really have anything distinctive about them, except that they were Lewis Collins and Martin Shaw. Once you remove them, it’s not ‘The Professionals’ anymore.

]]> By: Cwoodward https://filmjunk.com/2010/04/23/neil-marshall-to-direct-the-professionals/comment-page-1/#comment-766289 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:01:59 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=37063#comment-766289 As a kid I was a big fan of The Professionals, and I have them on DVD now. I’m not sure how a new movie version would fare, because it seems to a be a product of its time. The Professionals was mostly successful because of the banter between Collins and Shaw. It also had quite a fascist view of law enforcement which I’m not sure works today.

But what do I know?

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