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[Prospero]

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"Variety reports that celebrated director Brian De Palma will return to old-school Chicago to direct "The Untouchables: Capone Rising," which will be a prequel to his 1987 hit "The Untouchables."

Too bad David Mamet's not writing the screenplay.

 

[DarienA]

There is no chance of this being as good as Untouchables.... I weep.

 

[Prospero]

There is no chance of this being as good as Untouchables.... I weep.

Nothing that a young Al Capone does in this movie will match what DeNiro's Capone did with the baseball bat. Nothing.

 

[shantyman]

WTF... WHY?

 

[RonaldoSan]

I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!

De Niro is the best.

 

[acoustix]

WTF... WHY?

.

 

[Doth Togo]

I want this guy dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and piss on his ashes!

This man understands ownage.

 

[element]

i love the untouchables why must they ruin it.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Connery's

Spoiler

death scene

ruled.

 

[Mashing]

Why do classic movies always have to have remakes or prequels? Leave well enough alone I say. Untouchables is an awesome movie, shouldn't be cheapened in any way.

 

[duckroll]

This would be like making a prequel to Titanic, or JFK or Thirteen Days. I can't possibly see anything interesting or good coming out of it. How many people really need or want to know what happened xx years before Untouchables?! It was all about the final era of Capone and his eventual ownage.

 

[Dan]

Don't forget that we've got Carlito's Way: Rise to Power coming later this year. Who doesn't love pointless prequels?

 

[aparisi2274]

Why do classic movies always have to have remakes or prequels? Leave well enough alone I say. Untouchables is an awesome movie, shouldn't be cheapened in any way.

Hollywood is in an 18wk slump at the BO. Hollywood is creatively brankrupt. I havent seen an original idea come out of Hollywood in a long time. Everything is a re-imagining, or re-make, or sequel, or prequel, or TV show from th 70's.

Studios are looking to old IP's to try and reignite their back accounts, so they prolly dropped a cashcow on DePalma, and said give us a sequel, so we can milk it, and he was like ok.

 

[Error]

Don't forget that we've got Carlito's Way: Rise to Power coming later this year. Who doesn't love pointless prequels?

Whaaaat? If this keeps on going watch out for the inevitable Scarface prequel

edit: thanks Socreges for correcting my ignorance

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

God, first Carlito's Way and now this? SHIT!

 

[Socreges]

I haven't seen Untouchables. I suck.

Whaaaat? what the hell is wrong with De Palma? Is he that desperate for money? If this keeps on going watch out for the inevitable Scarface prequel

I'm pretty sure he isn't involved with the Carlito's Way prequel

 

[DarienA]

Don't forget that we've got Carlito's Way: Rise to Power coming later this year. Who doesn't love pointless prequels?

WTF? Please tell me this is a joke!

 

[android]

Bet DeCaprio will be Capone.

 

[CrunchyB]

I totally love The Untouchables.

Did it sound anything like this? :lol

 

[Dan]

WTF? Please tell me this is a joke!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427038/

Totally true.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Fuck this!

They should make a movie about Ness's years busting the asses of the corrupt cops in Cleveland and the surrounding cities. Those are some great stories, and they can end it with the first Kingsbury Run murder to milk it for a sequel.

 

[Willco]

Fuck Cleveland and fuck this prequel.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Fuck Cleveland

Agreed!

But Ness fucking with our corrupt justice system rocked. God damned dirty Newburgh Heights cops.

 

[Willco]

Agreed!

But Ness fucking with our corrupt justice system rocked. God damned dirty Newburgh Heights cops.

Didn't he die alone, alcoholic and dishonored by the end of his days, though? Thanks a-fucking-lot, Cleveland. I don't want to see that shit. I'd like to keep my vision of the bad Kevin Costner gansta ass kicker intact, please.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

You need to do more reading on the stuff between him busting Capone, and retiring old and forgotten. There's a lot of cool shit there.

Not that I endorse this sequel or expect it to be better than a Lucas film; but you know - I'd rather see more Ness than lame ass Capone worship.

 

[Groder Mullet]

Am I the only one who thinks De Palma sucks ass? Casualties of War was one of the larger piles of dog shit that I have ever seen.

 

[Shinobi]

<Ness> Come on Capone, you wanna fight Capone?! You wanna fight you and me, right here?! That's it, come on! What's the matter, you afraid to come up from behind your men? You afraid to stand up for yourself?
<Capone> You wanna do it now? You wanna go to the mat right now?
<Ness> Come on you guinea son of a bitch.
<Capone> What? You talk to me like that in front of my son? Fuck you and your family!
<Ness> *pulls out gun*
*8 guns pulled on Ness*
<Malone> *restrains Ness* Easy! It's me. Not this way. Not this way.
<Capone> You fuck, you got nothing! You're nothing but a lot talk and a badge. You here 'cause you've got nothing. You've got nothing in court, you don't got the bookkeeper, you've got nothing! Nothing! And if you were a man you'd have done it now. You don't got a thing, you punk!



That scene cracks me up every single time.

 

[shantyman]

Bet DeCaprio will be Capone.

Say what you will about Leo, but he would never act in a bona fide guranteed POS like this.

Fuck Cleveland and fuck this prequel.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Bluecondor]

Have any of you ever watched the ancient television series, the Untouchables? It was on in the 1950s/1960s, I believe, and my Grandfather used to watch reruns of it every night when I was growing up. Maybe I am just being nostalgic, but it was a pretty good show. It was all about Elliot Ness, and how he faced constant pressure to go in with the mafia. The violence is so low key in comparison to what we see now, but, I remember it being well-written.

 

[DarienA]

Have any of you ever watched the ancient television series, the Untouchables? It was on in the 1950s/1960s, I believe, and my Grandfather used to watch reruns of it every night when I was growing up. Maybe I am just being nostalgic, but it was a pretty good show. It was all about Elliot Ness, and how he faced constant pressure to go in with the mafia. The violence is so low key in comparison to what we see now, but, I remember it being well-written.

Very good show, I'd expect most folks on this forum to be entirely too young to have seen it let along heard of it(1959-1963)... I'm actually too young myself but I remember catch episodes of it because my father use to watch them and they were being rebroadcast in the early 70's.