Reboot of the series starring Sacha Baron Cohen

That's an interesting proposal I never thought of.

A lot of people have floated Geoffrey's Rush's name, but that's only because he was the only actor given a shot to do a decent tribute to Sellers' Clouseau, and pulled it off well. But Rush is probably too old to star in a reboot of a film series, and was literally playing Sellers' playing Clouseau.

Cohen might be dismissed at first because people would make Borat jokes, but I think he is really talented at transforming himself, and might pull it off. At the very least, he could come far closer to capturing the spirit the classic Clouseau than Martin even did. But ideally, I'd like to see a more low key Clouseau like the one from the first two movies (The Pink Panther/A Shot in the Dark), than the over-the-top French caricature we got in the 70s movies. The only problem here is Cohen is probably better at doing the 70s version of the character. In any case, he should be on the short list and audition for a reboot.


If any franchise NEEDS a reboot, it's this one. Steve Martin took a classic character and ruined it, we don't want to leave future generations with Martin's pathetic films as the version of the Pink Panther they're exposed to.


Ideally, they should go in the same vein as the recent James Bond/Star Trek/X-Men film, and have the movie simultaneously be a prequel and a reboot of the series. The reboot film would be an origin story about Clouseau's first "case" and how he stumbles his way into solving it and is named an police inspector by the Sûreté. Perhaps we could have a pre-credits sequence showing his time in the French resistance during World War II. To get the whole "Pink Panther cartoon" out of the people's heads, the opening animation would feature the Inspector character but no pink panther character or famous pink panther theme (again, harking back to A Shot in the Dark, and the Alan Arkin movie). Perhaps Mancini's famous "panther" thing and the animated character would pop in for the end credits when Closeau has finally become the incompetent police detective we all know and love.

Definitely need lots of biting satire, quirky humor, exotic locals, and jazz in the Blake Edwards vein... no fart jokes and hamburger lines like the Steve Martin movies. The goal would be to make people forget those movies ever happened.

I had the exact same idea but that was way back before steve martin was cast. the main problem is that Clouseau in these movies is actually a hero aimed at children, the previous films he was an bumbling idiot that through his incompetence somehow solved the case.

I enjoyed the Steve Martin films, but at this point, I say leave the series alone.


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Not actually a bad idea......

No one does Clouseau like Sellers. No one.

Now That's a Great Idea! I saw Hugo too. My first reaction to SBC was that he resembled Arthur Bostrom from ALLO ALLO!. That being said...he'd make a really good Inspector Clouseau!

Not a bad idea.

I am sure there was talk of a reboot not long after this movie was released (after Martin gave up pushing for a 3rd one) but the damage was already done and nobody wants to touch it.