As long as they're remaking stuff - - why not do a new version of 'Wild Wild West'

[Taverner]

Yeah I know there was that horrible movie with Will Smith. Scientology and Coke will lead you to make travesties like that.

HOWEVER -

What if they did it right? Just go full-out steampunk. Give them every technology we have today, but steam powered (hence the 'steampunk' genre) versions of it.

It might look kind of like this:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

1. 95% of what made the original show special was Robert Conrad's "chip on the shoulder" attitude

It really was "frontier James Bond."

So regardless of special effects / technology / gadgets / etc., I'd want to see an "attitude" actor in the role, a prick...like Conrad.



The right actor and the right script could really be amazing.

Will Smith and Kevin Kline were not the right actors.

I see this in the same light as the Christian Bale "dark" relaunch of the Batman franchise after progressively embarrassing Joel Schumaker "cartoon" messes like the Clooney / Schwarzenegger flick.

James West was a lethal smartass, just as the Sean Connery James Bond was a lethal smartass. Forget that and they might as well forget the remake.

[Taverner]

2. Johnny Depp as James West

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HydsQY7GoKA/TMz7L4vOkfI/AAAAAAAAAak/hu22vgeZqdo/s1600/johnny+depp_sleepy+hollow.jpg

[kentauros]

3. Well, we already know that David Bowie makes an excellent Tesla!

[csziggy]

4. Ah, but who could be his Artemis Gordon? Doesn't work for me.

Maybe Johnny Depp as Artemis and some more straight laced actor as Jim West? Depp could have a wonderful time with the disguises - Ross Martin did. Why waste Depp's comedic talent on a character as boring as Jim West?