Kiefer Sutherland to star in Quibi's The Fugitive remake with Boyd Holbrook - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 09-18-2019, 12:24 AM

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/kie...bi-1203338949/

24 alum Sutherland will play the detective and Narcos alum Holbrook will play the fugitive in the remake based on the 1993 Harrison Ford movie. According to Variety, "the logline for the series sounds similar to the original film, but with a few key differences: When a bomb rips through the Los Angeles subway train he’s riding on, blue-collar Mike Ferro (Holbrook) just wants to make sure his wife, Allison, and 10-year-old daughter, Pearl, are safe. But the faulty evidence on the ground and 'tweet-now, confirm-later' journalism paint a nightmarish picture: it looks to all the world that Mike was responsible for the heinous act."

TMC · 07-24-2020, 03:32 PM

Kiefer Sutherland's The Fugitive reboot releases its official trailer

Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook star in the Quibi take on The Fugitive story, premiering Aug. 3.

Quibi's The Fugitive is a "less-good 24" -- a high-octane action-thriller that’s terrified of what might happen if it slows down

"So much s*** happens" in each eight-minute episode of the Quibi Fugitive reboot starring Boyd Holbrook and Kiefer Sutherland, says Tim Grierson. "Ad-driven television has always been a slave to narrative conventions — something dramatic has to happen before we cut to commercial — and even streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu focus on binge-ability by loading each episode with enough stuff that keeps you watching so that you don’t switch off and start consuming some competitor’s content," says Grierson. "But this new Fugitive seems especially hyperactively 'entertaining' in a way that I quickly found exhausting. Ideally, the challenge of conceiving an entire 'episode' as an eight-minute chunk forces an economy of storytelling that’s novel and exciting. (Every line of dialogue — everything the characters do — has to be crucial to the story.) But that format doesn’t allow you to really relax into the series. I watched all four episodes back-to-back, and the maniacal rush of the thing felt deeply mechanical: Here… comes… another… PLOT TWIST! I’m not sure watching these things one episode a day would be any more satisfying. Because there’s no breathing room in the storytelling, the whole thing is a ceaseless churn of punchy exposition and urgent activity. The Fugitive is a high-octane action-thriller that’s terrified of what might happen if it slows down."

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09-18-2019, 12:24 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,743	Kiefer Sutherland to star in Quibi's The Fugitive remake with Boyd Holbrook https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/kie...bi-1203338949/ 24 alum Sutherland will play the detective and Narcos alum Holbrook will play the fugitive in the remake based on the 1993 Harrison Ford movie. According to Variety, "the logline for the series sounds similar to the original film, but with a few key differences: When a bomb rips through the Los Angeles subway train he’s riding on, blue-collar Mike Ferro (Holbrook) just wants to make sure his wife, Allison, and 10-year-old daughter, Pearl, are safe. But the faulty evidence on the ground and 'tweet-now, confirm-later' journalism paint a nightmarish picture: it looks to all the world that Mike was responsible for the heinous act."

07-24-2020, 03:32 PM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 126,743	Kiefer Sutherland's The Fugitive reboot releases its official trailer Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook star in the Quibi take on The Fugitive story, premiering Aug. 3. Quibi's The Fugitive is a "less-good 24" -- a high-octane action-thriller that’s terrified of what might happen if it slows down "So much s*** happens" in each eight-minute episode of the Quibi Fugitive reboot starring Boyd Holbrook and Kiefer Sutherland, says Tim Grierson. "Ad-driven television has always been a slave to narrative conventions — something dramatic has to happen before we cut to commercial — and even streaming sites like Netflix and Hulu focus on binge-ability by loading each episode with enough stuff that keeps you watching so that you don’t switch off and start consuming some competitor’s content," says Grierson. "But this new Fugitive seems especially hyperactively 'entertaining' in a way that I quickly found exhausting. Ideally, the challenge of conceiving an entire 'episode' as an eight-minute chunk forces an economy of storytelling that’s novel and exciting. (Every line of dialogue — everything the characters do — has to be crucial to the story.) But that format doesn’t allow you to really relax into the series. I watched all four episodes back-to-back, and the maniacal rush of the thing felt deeply mechanical: Here… comes… another… PLOT TWIST! I’m not sure watching these things one episode a day would be any more satisfying. Because there’s no breathing room in the storytelling, the whole thing is a ceaseless churn of punchy exposition and urgent activity. The Fugitive is a high-octane action-thriller that’s terrified of what might happen if it slows down." ALSO: Quibi has filleted The Fugitive into tasteless morsels of contemporary crap Boyd Holbrook signed on for The Fugitive for its great script and the chance to work with Kiefer Sutherland, whom he looked up to as kid “I wouldn’t have signed on if it was just a straight remake of something,” says Holbrook
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