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[bitbydeath]

It’s time to kick-ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of gum.

Duke Nukem, the 1990s video game that helped popularize the first-person shooter genre, is getting the feature film treatment.

Legendary Entertainment, the company behind Dune and the Godzilla monster movie series, has picked up the movie rights from Gearbox, with Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg on board to produce.

Legendary will also produce, as will Jean Julien Baronnet (Assassin’s Creed) of Marla Studios, which specializes on video game adaptations. Heald, Hurtwitz and Schlossberg are producing via their banner, Counterbalance Entertainment.

A search for a writer to tackle the material is underway. And while no director is on board, the door is open for one of the Counterbalance team to potentially sit behind the camera.

Gearbox had a Nukem project in development at Paramount with John Cena attached to star over four years ago, but that stalled out.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/duke-nukem-movie-1235162997/

 

[MikeM]

Queue the “Duke’s gonna be a transgender” GAFers.

Hopefully this will be an R rated gong show.

 

[March Climber]

A search for a writer to tackle the material is underway. And while no director is on board

Hoping for the best for both.

Queue the “Duke’s gonna be a transgender” GAFers.

You'll instantly know who hasn't seen Cobra Kai if this happens.

 

[Kadve]

Well R rating or bust. This is Duke after all and having him not slapping titties is not getting the character

 

[bitbydeath]

My vote goes to Alan Ritchson as Duke.

 

[jaysius]

Kobra Kai was okish.

A Duke Nukem movie in 2022 is almost impossible with the current insane pop culture trigger wars.

 

[Soltype]

They're going to have to take a Demolition Man/Austin Powers approach to this.

 

[Fermbiz]

They need to get Uwe Boll on board! Thats the only way this is going to work

 

[ACESHIGH]

Jay Cutler should get back into gear and be Duke. Hopefully the writers have balls and go against the flow.

 

[Wildebeest]

I'm nodding. Makes sense. But the number of movies "in the works" which never go anywhere doesn't give this good odds.

 

[Fbh]

They're going to have to take a Demolition Man/Austin Powers approach to this.

Yeah I think the only approach that could work in modern times is doing something like Peacemaker.
So you can have Duke be his usual self but it's part of the joke (and there's a diverse side cast that points out how he is wrong).

 

[Kimahri]

My vote goes to Alan Ritchson as Duke.

That's... Actually an awesome idea!

Edit: what kind of shitty gif search does gaf use? Thad gives me nothing.

 

[Sub_Level]

My vote goes to Alan Ritchson as Duke.

Yep he would be great. I would've said John Cena but we already got the fantastic Peacemaker, it would be redundant for him.

 

[Apocryphon]

Peacemaker sold me on Cena. Maybe he'd still be interested in this. Not sure about the Kobra Kai creaters involvement though. Why would we want them attached?

 

[WitchHunter]

Does Cena believes that he is an actor?

 

[01011001]

They need to get Uwe Boll on board! Thats the only way this is going to work

well, he would at least not give a damn about offending people that's for sure.

 

[daveonezero]

Hoping for the best for both.



You'll instantly know who hasn't seen Cobra Kai if this happens.

True but I could see this changing.

Honestly this just made me think Zabcka would actually be a perfect fit.

Basically Johnny kicking alien ass for hours.

 

[intbal]

*I know this doesn't apply since this isn't a Netflix production, but the meme still works.

 

[killatopak]

I'm not so sure how Duke will fare nowadays.

 

[El Muerto]

Willing to bet the movie is going to start out with Duke finding out he was cancelled due to his behaviour in the past games. Then he has to save the world to redeem himself. The movie is probably going to be satire about the old games rather than more of what Duke Nukem was about.

 

[iHaunter]

IDK. I couldn't watch Cobra Kai, it was pretty cringe. Not a good sign for me.

 

[realcool]

*I know this doesn't apply since this isn't a Netflix production, but the meme still works.

 

[kiphalfton]

You'll instantly know who hasn't seen Cobra Kai if this happens.

Lol.

They've poked fun at fat people, gender identity, etc. on the show. Nothing crazy, but at least don't tiptoe around it like every other show.

 

[Fuz]

There is NO WAY they'll do a proper Duke movie nowadays.

 

[bitbydeath]

Peacemaker sold me on Cena. Maybe he'd still be interested in this. Not sure about the Kobra Kai creaters involvement though. Why would we want them attached?

The show does have that 90’s feel to it which this would need.

 

[The Pleasure]

*I know this doesn't apply since this isn't a Netflix production, but the meme still works.

Jojos Bizzare Adventure: Steel Balls Run

 

[JonSnowball]

I wonder how badly they'll fuck this up. It's not difficult - Duke is basically an amalgam of 70s - 90s action heroes, a one-liner spewing "ultimate alien ass-kicker" but Gearbox already did their best to turn him into an outrageous smug douchebag over the last decade, and meme humor rules all now....so they'll just have him be one gigantic joke, or something worse.

Preferably the film won't end up going into production.

 

[Sophist]

It’s time to kick-ass and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of gum.

This quote actually came from the movie They Live that duke nukem inspired from.



A movie like this but with someone built like Arnold Schwarzenegger would be an acceptable adaptation.

 

[93xfan]

Kobra Kai was okish.

A Duke Nukem movie in 2022 is almost impossible with the current insane pop culture trigger wars.

I thought it was fantastic! Perfect way to bring back a classic.

 

[Yoda]

Not sure Duke can be made nowadays, at least not in a way which is faithful to his depiction in the games.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Sub_Level]

Not sure Duke can be made nowadays, at least not in a way which is faithful to his depiction in the games.

Hes just a tongue-in-cheek badass macho man who rescues babes and btfo’s aliens. In the Gearbox version of DNF he is also a prick and overall asshole cunt. I fear we will get the Gearbox depiction if the movie gets made (it wont lol)

 

[Kikorin]

Is almost impossible to do a faithful transposition of what Duke Nukem was today, but I've to say that I enjoyed Kobra Kai a lot and it was surprisingly fun, with characters that made lot of sense for a sequel to an 80s classic. Not the usually terrible Netflix roster, but well written characters all around.

 

[Maestr0]

Made me remember this

 

[Wohc]

Duke Nukem nowadys? Duke opening doors for women and saying "Good day, ma'am" instead of calling them "chick" and slapping their asses? But even that would offend certain people, because it implies that women are weak and need men to open doors.

 

[Wildebeest]

This quote actually came from the movie They Live that duke nukem inspired from.



A movie like this but with someone built like Arnold Schwarzenegger would be an acceptable adaptation.

Duke Nukem is more like Bruce Willis in Die Hard than Arnie in anything. That you would turn your nose up at someone like Roddy Piper playing him is hilarious. I don't know what sort of shitty pretext a modern movie would need to justify that sort of OTT violence for a "relatable wisecracker". It's one of those films where someone messes around with a man's kids or dogs, isn't it? John Wick. Funny thing is Duke Nukem is more open-hearted since he would fly off the handle if any hot women were in danger.

 

[Guardian's Light]

Kobra Kai was okish.

A Duke Nukem movie in 2022 is almost impossible with the current insane pop culture trigger wars.

Well, if Deadpool movies exist, I don't think an ok Duke movie would really be that hard

 

[lh032]

What is the ethnicity of Duke in this movie?

 

[Kokoloko85]

Shake it bab….. cancelled

 

[kyussman]

How the fuck does that work in 2022,lol......I guess it doesn't and they'll just make some weird alternate version of the character that won't offend anyone.

 

[JordoftheDead]

Not sure Duke can be made nowadays, at least not in a way which is faithful to his depiction in the games.

Yeah that 80s machismo and ’shake it baby’ would not fly these days without it being some post modern take or self satire.

 

[Fuz]

How the fuck does that work in 2022

It WOULD work.

They just won't let it happen.

 

[kyussman]

It WOULD work.

They just won't let it happen.

Yea,there would be an audience for a crazy over the top character like him......but in 2022 it wouldn't be allowed.Which begs the question what the hell would this be if it got made,lol.

 

[Deerock71]

If Johnny Depp can beat Amber Heard in a court with a jury, then this movie might just be the next Citizen Kane.

Side note (and 100% true), I once shook Howie Long's hand and asked him if anyone in Hollywood ever wanted him to play Duke Nukem. He actually said yes and asked me what that was. I got to chat it up with Howie Long about Duke Nukem. He'd STILL be a great fit.

 

[Kadve]

How the fuck does that work in 2022,lol......I guess it doesn't and they'll just make some weird alternate version of the character that won't offend anyone.

Make him into a women acting the same way towards men. Then it cant be offensive. /s

 

[Solarstrike]

I'm not so sure how Duke will fare nowadays.

Duke Wokem

 

[nkarafo]

A movie about a hyper masculine, straight white male protagonist?

Come on, we all know how it's going to end up.

 

[Stuart360]

Oh Jesus, not in 2022 clown world please. Duke meant a lot to me as a teenager, please dont do this to him.

 

[nkarafo]

Well, if Deadpool movies exist, I don't think an ok Duke movie would really be that hard

Deadpool is just a funny guy. Not a macho alpha male womanizer.

 

[Fuz]

Well, if Deadpool movies exist, I don't think an ok Duke movie would really be that hard

Deadpool is very PC.
Duke isn't.