What should they change or have to change in the remake if it is set in present day? For starters they will probably have to change the way he gets the gun, with gun registration laws being what they are. One other thing I would like to see is a possible scene where Paul uses the sex offender registration to find his next "victim". Just an idea.
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I tell you what, I love Death Wish, the novel and the Movie and I would love them to move the locale to England. The crime is terrible here and the Police are a joke. A gun toting vigilante is something that our cops wouldn't have a clue how to deal with. I'd set it in Manchester and cast Christopher Ecclestone as the vigilante
shareI think Paul should actually punish the ones who set him off in the first place. In the similarly themed "The Brave One" Jodie Foster kills only one or two criminals before she finds and kills the ones responsible for her family's death. Paul doesn't even kill or hurt the guys who murdered his wife and sexually assualted his daughter, leaving her with brain damage, unable to remeber the event. Nobody even knows who did it. Paul just bumps into them once and walks by. They should have been somehow punished. I guess nowadays, they'll have better evidence collecting and forensic techniques to determine who the culprits are.
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Good idea and besides Manchester or Birmingham England, there also some French suburbs around Paris where they have some crime problems of that kind as well as it was shown during the 2005 riots. Another city who could be use for a remake of Death Wish would be Rio de Janeiro in Brazil who'll host the 2016 olympics games but got a big crime problem.
Then there Detroit in Michigan where Robocop was set but I think Paul Kersley could do a visit in Motor City.
That is a really good idea.
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Time-Line? Time is not in lines, it is in circles, that is why clocks are round!
They should make it very faithful to the novel. By having the regards of Paul going through the stages presented in the book before he goes off on killing kids, as well by making sure that the audience this time relate to Paul's fear and angst during the aftermath of the death of his wife, as in the novel the muggers who attacked his wife and daughter are offscreen characters and there's very little to go on without very good descriptions of the men by his daughter.
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I believe that if there to make a remake, they should have Paul actually suffer the aftermath of his wife and daughter's death. In the previous films, he didn't show a lot of emotion. It was somewhat wooden. But, the movie was still awesome as hell.
If I were to choose an actor to portray Paul for a remake, I'd say Liam Neeson would be perfect.