Man on Fire | Official Trailer | Netflix

Or Tony Scott directing. I like how Max Payne 3 was a Man on Fire tribute

Right. The Tony Scott/Denzel film is so seminal that movies and video games have spent the last 20 years copying its formula and chasing that dragon.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has lowkey been typecast in legacy roles. He’s following Denzel in this, then he was Morpheus in Matrix 4, Candyman and then his character in Wonderman has a meta element of being an actor taking on the role of a rebooted character.

Agreed, he’s always good but in that film it’s like he really felt the role.

Yeah this is one of his greatest portrayals of an absolutely tortured person who finds peace in protecting a completely innocent person. He's had similar roles, but none of them have the same impact for my money than Man on Fire. The whole movie was great and everyone's performance added something significant. Good f****** luck on this project. I'll watch it, but I'm not expecting it to be half as good.

For sure, the movie is a classic. Also when I first knew Dakota Fanning was gonna be a star.

Denzil made it so everyone forgot that the movie was a remake. Scott glenn stars in the original.

I felt the same way with Bradley Cooper following Kris Kristofferson in *A Star is Born* but he pulled it off masterfully. The Denzel version of this movie is forever goated in my house, but I will still certainly watch this as a similar but different story and hope they tell their version well.

I mean Denzel followed Scott Glenn. The original Man on Fire was set in Italy in the 80s.

I’m calm. I’m calm. I have all the time in the world. You don’t. But I do.

They might skip it. It has been 22 years since the movie, and it would take too long to explain what a pager is, let alone a pager watch.

That's my f*****

Looks like there was a shot of him leaning over a guy delivering a threat in Spanish, so... yes.

I wish……you had……more time.

I wish. You had. More time.

Every now and then, Walken takes a role and reminds everyone why despite the memes and jokes, he’s one of the best actors of his (incredibly stacked) generation

"Forgiveness is between you and God, I'm just here to arrange your meeting"

"Goddamn, Creasy! I didn't know you were gonna paint your masterpiece!"

Cressi Bear. You know that when the little girl starts calling him that that Denzel is going to burn everything to the ground.

Every now and then, Walken takes a role and reminds everyone why despite the memes and jokes, he’s one of the best actors of his (incredibly stacked) generation

I have a fever and the only thing that can cure it, is more paintings from Creesi

Is that how they spell it in the movie? The usual spelling of that name is Creasey or Creasy

Dakota Fanning was the girl in the Denzel movie. She's still acting, but her sister Elle Fanning is a bigger star nowadays.

It just makes me want to watch the OG

This trailer is ridiculous in all the worst ways. First it's the annoying pop song trailer filled with drums and stings. Stupid and derivative. But more than that it's way to grand a scale. In the original film Denzel isn't taking on dozens of armored militarized police units with fully automatic weapons. He's getting shot at by off duty cops with 9mms driving around in Crown Vics and 1989 Ford Rangers. It's not the spectacle that made that movie great it was the emotionality. The biggest problem for me though is that trailer lacks any and all emotional connection between the lead actor and the kidnapping victim which is what set Man on Fire apart from every other action movie. The original story (not plot) was about a self-loathing and sjicio man being confronted unexpectedly with the possibility of redemption. Peta was Creasey's redemption personified. She was young and innocent and if she could find something about Creasey to love then Creasey must have some ounce of good in him that justifies why he should live another day. When he tries to commit suicide he has no idea why his corrupt soul was spared by a faulty round. When Peta is taken away from him he realizes he was saved that night to punish those true corrupt souls who would harm such pure ones. Did anything in this trailer make you feel a connection to the main character or the Peta (who is way too old for this part btw)? No. They don't even bother to explain how they know each other. [Compare it to the original trailer](https://youtu.be/eDDh50B6kA4?si=_W2Vw4yr9uE2zW2z) where the entire focus is the relationship. No huge set pieces. Just a focus on Creasey and Peta. This trailer is soulless trash meant for the algoritjm

They actually reunited in the film Equalizer 3.

You may be interested to know that [Denzel’s movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328107/) was actually the [second adaptation](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093489/) of the source material. So was technically a remake itself.

The Denzel version was itself a remake. The original is from 1987 and stars Scott Glenn as Creasy. This series is an adaptation of both the original 1980 novel and its 1992 sequel.

My comment was going to be "Seems unnecessary, but I'll still watch it." Denzel played such a great role that it'll be hard to detach from his performance.

Basically R rated Taken before Taken.

She’s in an episode of CSI as well that’s one of the best. First time I saw her and she stuck with me. Cool to see her pop up in movies later.

Thank you! People are really missing this and not realizing it’s not a remake of the movie, but adapted from the books (which the movie was adapted from too)

Everything needs more Ben Kingsley. Kingsley in the Walkins role would work. Just got done with Wonderman and the two have great chemistry.

*Get it. Get the rhythm. Get the rhythm. There you go*. There you f****** go

That's what I came here to say, they lifted the scream haha

It’s based off the book series which predated the first movie. 

Because the original was shit compared to what Denzel and Tony Scott did. People don't know about the first one for a reason.

I don’t think Quinnel, the author, ever expected this book to have so many movies made from it

Yes, you can read a Wiki page, we're all very impressed

This isn't chat, Pete.

I don't think it's that as much as the Denzel version is just one of the better films to ever be made. I'm definitely giving it a shot, but it's ballsy to make a remake of a remake that is a 10/10 movie.

I had no idea. And actually a damn good cast: Scott Glenn, Joe Pesci, Jonathan Pryce, Danny Aiello

Scarface is not the original either. Try to make a remake with Chalamet and you'd get the same response from people.

People don’t forget. They just don’t know. And they don’t know because the 2004 film was f****** awesome and at some point you just gotta say that someone did it the best so let’s just leave it alone.

The Denzel one was a remake...

Seriously. I don’t even know why they would attempt to remake this movie.

I'm just a professional, I'm just a professional, I'm getting sick and tired of hearing that.

The Denzel one was a remake/re-adaptation

The Scott Glenn version? https://youtu.be/zkTs6zf8kBs?si=Q4QHgYhenfO6xBwv I prefer the Denzil Washington remake but it's cool you prefer the original.

The 1987 original?

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It's based off a series of novels so they're rebooting the first in order to continue with the rest.

It's another adaption of the books - the Washington/Scott version itself was not the first: https://youtu.be/zkTs6zf8kBs?si=Q4QHgYhenfO6xBwv