After massive success with his documentary, The King Of Kong, Seth Gordon rather underwhelmed as a fictional-film director with the terrible Four Christmases. Since then he’s sensibly honed his craft directing TV shows such as The Office and Modern Family, before returning to movies with the upcoming Horrible Bosses.
Now he’s got another project up his sleeve, WarGames, with Deadline reporting Gordon has been hired by MGM to develop a remake of the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie. The original was about a whiz kid computer programmer who finds a way inside the government’s military computer system, where game-playing gets confused with reality and could start World War III.
Things have changed a lot in the last 28 years, and so Gordon will be given a wide berth to create something new and up to date, based aroung the WarGames premise. It could actually work quite well, as in the age of cyber-crime, Anonymous and LulzSec, there’s a lot of things to play, making this as timely as ever.
This is the latest planned remake MGM has announced. Ever since the company went in and out of bankruptcy earlier this year, they’ve been trying to find ways to make more use of their back catalogue, and one way is the remake old movies. As a result WarGames joins the likes of RoboCop and Carrie, which are also on their way back to the big screen in rebooted form.