The Transporter Refulled

[944fan]

They have gone and done it. They have only gone and made a remake of the fking Transporter. I quite liked the first one, but was it really necessary to re make it?

Only good point is it looks like it has the latest Audi S8 in it. Seems like the car has more charisma and acting skills than the male lead, whoever he is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeoKyTHn5Kg

[judas]

This definitely warrants a

The whole film industry is pretty much creatively bankrupt.

No idea who the lead is - might as well be a plank of wood.

[Veeayt]

The simple answer is product placement - easy money.

[judas]

Veeayt said:

The simple answer is product placement - easy money.

So, it's basically a two hour Audi advert?

[toon10]

So is this a remake of the original film or is this a sequel with a new actor? Either way what's the point? I'm out.

[aka_kerrly]

What is wrong with film industry, have the writers all run out of ideas!?

The original Transporter films are perfectly fine and don't need updating or refueling or whatever.

Quite the fan of the BMW 7 series in the first film, 735i Manual



and the chase scene for good measure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVKkP41efc

[Beefmeister]

I noticed that just in that trailer the S8 goes from Black to Grey a couple of times. I'd like to think they use two different cars in the film, but going by the first ones I seriously doubt it.

[judas]

aka_kerrly said:

What is wrong with film industry, have the writers all run out of ideas!?

No. The issue is that the industry is now run by highly risk-averse bean counters who all seem to believe that simply rehashing something that made money will make more money. And while people continue to pay to see these soulless remakes it will continue

[boyse7en]

Seriously?

Seems like it was only made a few years ago! (I know, I'm getting old...)

I can kind of understand re-making some old films for a modern audience using better techniques and technology, but there aren't that many new ways of crashing a BMW/Audi

[Oakey]

Did The Transporter even make that much money?

BoxOfficeMojo says an average of $33million gross for each film. Worldwide the entire franchise took $238million.

[Brigand]

Is it a remake though? The trailer just looked like another movie rather than a reboot. Having just looked up the original on IMDB I'm shocked to see its 13 years old now! Geeze I feel old now...

[Oakey]

Well the guy plays Frank Martin and he isn't Jason Statham so I'd call that a remake.

Also, Ray Stevenson plays his father.

imdb said:

From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, comes THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED, a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, launching him into the present-day

Because 2008 was so long ago the world is vastly different to his previous outing?

[MTech535]

OT but I also saw a trailer for a fantastic 4 reboot the other day, and I heard they are having yet another go at spiderman soon.

[Pesty]

MTech535 said:

OT but I also saw a trailer for a fantastic 4 reboot the other day, and I heard they are having yet another go at spiderman soon.

What. No really wtf.

[Brigand]

Oakey said:

Well the guy plays Frank Martin and he isn't Jason Statham so I'd call that a remake.

Also, Ray Stevenson plays his father.

imdb said:

From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, comes THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED, a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, launching him into the present-day

Because 2008 was so long ago the world is vastly different to his previous outing?

Nah, that definitely doesn't sound like remake to me, but does sound like a reboot. They're just taking the franchise and carrying on but with a new actor playing Frank. To be remaking it would be to do the original story again but with the new guy, the trailer looks nothing like the first film.

[Oakey]

Brigand said:

Nah, that definitely doesn't sound like remake to me, but does sound like a reboot. They're just taking the franchise and carrying on but with a new actor playing Frank. To be remaking it would be to do the original story again but with the new guy, the trailer looks nothing like the first film.

Yeah, reboot, that's what I meant.

Either way, it's not a continuation of the first three.

imdb said:

Frank Martin, played by newcomer Ed Skrein, a former special-ops mercenary, is now living a less perilous life- or so he thinks- as an independent agent contracted to transport classified packages for questionable people. When Frank's father (Ray Stevenson), pays him a visit in the south of France, their father-son bonding weekend soon takes a turn for the worst when Frank is engaged by the cunning femme-fatale, Anna (Loan Chabonal), and her three seductive sidekicks on a mission to orchestrate the bank heist of the century

[aka_kerrly]

Oakey said:

imdb said:

From the producers of LUCY and the TAKEN trilogy, comes THE TRANSPORTER REFUELED, a fresh personification of the iconic role of Frank Martin, launching him into the present-day

Because 2008 was so long ago the world is vastly different to his previous outing?

Come on 2008, Audi have done at least half a dozen face lifts since then.

[bobbo89]

I don't know what you're all so arsed about. Transporter films have always just been brain out action films and this looks no different. I wont be going to the cinema to watch it but I certainly will when it crops up on Netflix next year!

[V8covin]

Watched it last night.
Nothing that hasn't already been done to death.The guy playing the lead was a poor poor imitation of Statham,in the acting dept as well as screen presence.And then there's his voice !
It's one of those films you watch when there's nothing else on.
Fair bit of drifting action mind