Maybe Time for a Remake? Hellfighters

check out the IMAX - Fires of Kuwait

Red Adair was just the epitome of cool. I remember as a news director at a major radio station during the first Gulf War how Mr. Adair and his company got those raging fires in Kuwait under control in far less time than was originally expected.

I was amazed shortly after that to read Mr. Adair was something like a technical advisor on "Hellfighters," and I guess he may have had a cult following all along. Mr. Adair's big Texas sized kick-butt attitude definitely set the stage for getting the job done in Kuwait.

that's really a stretch! That's like saying "oh god -- you devil" with George Burns is a remake of "The Exorcist".

Or that Cujo is a remake of Benji....

That's not a remake, that's a poor excuse of a movie that's also the biggest waste of film ever recorded.

It's like saying summer is a just a remake of winter. Apples and oranges baby.

How can you say that tripe is a remake of an amazing film like this? I'm not the biggest John Wayne fan in the world, but even I stop to watch this movie.

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Way too funny but true. I think this would be a movie that could be remade in the spirit of Red Adair and the fires in Kuwait. I have only one issue. There are very few actors that could play such a "big" character. My stepfather flew choppers in Vietnam and then flew for oil services throughout the 70's and early 80's, he had the chance to meet Red Adair on more than one occasion. While my stepfather's ego is like most pilots of that era, big, he said on more than one occasion that Red's was what it was, he was the best in the world and knew it.. then add on to the fact that John Wayne played the first character.. well... i think it would be a hard roll to fill adequately.. to capture that true rugged american spirit, the nitty gritty, hard working, hard playing, live by their own set of rules , ethics and mores good old boy and do it very well.

Red Adair put the fires out in Kuwait in 9 months. It was predicted it would take 3-5 years as there were three fields burning, some of the highest producing fields in the region.

Nicole

There are only a handful of actors who could pull off a remake in the John Wayne mold. Casting would be tough given the soft and sensitive nature of modern day Hollywood leading men. Tom Selleck would be one, though he's not a box office draw of the same caliber as Wayne. Clint Eastwood would have been able to play the Wayne role maybe ten or fifteen years ago, but his best days are behind him. Gene Hackman - great actor but not suited for a role like this. Costner? No. Tom Cruise? Don't even go there. It would be tough to cast indeed, and maybe it's best this one was left alone.

Hollywood could never remake a John Wayne movie. They could never find an actor to play any role that John Wayne has done.

i just watched Hellfighters again last night. Great movie one of my favorites

I love the Duke, but there are some actors today bad-ass enough who could portray Adair.

Russell Crowe

Mel Gibson

Liam Neeson

Michael Madsen

But of course, Robert Duvall or Tommy Lee Jones (channeling Gus McCrae or Woodrow Call of Lonesome Dove) would simply kick ass as Adair in Kuwait.

You are absolutely correct. Also were all the envro protestors when Sadam Hussein was starting all these fires?