The Sweeney and The Professionals films 2011
Big Chris:The question is. Will they get Waterman in to play Haskins?
...And will he sing the song over the credits.
NSYGrinner:Big Chris:The question is. Will they get Waterman in to play Haskins?...And will he sing the song over the credits.
Exactly!
plastic penguin:Well, you couldn't re-create the magic of the originals. The screeching car chases of the professionals is a no-no, especially with the speed cameras around, nor will people tolerate the guns; the censors would be trembling in their pc boots if a production even attempted a clone of Bodie, Doyle and Cowley and Regan and Carter.
Also Ray Winstone aged 53ish and Daniel Craig well into his forties (Dennis Waterman was in his twenties and John Thaw in his thirties). Could it work? course not...
I would have thought there would be every chance of a making the films now un pc and all. Look at the language and characters in Guy Richies gangster films or some even some of the hard hitting dramas.
At one point I maybe would have said it would a difficult thing getting permission to film the stunts and chases on public roads. A high profile movie would want landmark locations rather than back street. We had to say no to ITV wanting to film a fire engine crash scene on Leeds Inner Ring Road tunnels. It was an inconvenience of the road closure timing in that case. They wanted daylight filming in Winter months. Mind you they manage it with the James Bond films.
Nowadays with all the spending cuts I can imagine it would be lapped up. The charges the to the film company for the rights, paying to resurface the carriageway/footway from any damage etc would be a good earner.
They filmed the motorway scene from The Fourth Protocol on a finished-but-not-yet-opened stretch of road* behind my school one summer. We were supposed to be having study breaks, but spent all our time trying to hang out with Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan
I distinctly remember the latter having to change his attire quite regularly, as the scene was supposed to be set in the winter, so he had thick clothes on. Ah, fond teenage memories 
* I see the road's fame lives on via IMDB 
Bond in an XR3i!
Big Chris:Bond in an XR3i!
When in Essex... 
Anyway, he wasn't Bond yet - we knew him as Remington Steele.
Now there's a series that can probably be left back in the 1980s and not remade!
Big Chris:Bond in an XR3i!
But it's still preferable to a Z3
Big Chris:The question is. Will they get Waterman in to play Haskins?
Nah!
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