Rated 1.5 out of 5: 27 years later, this ’90s adventure film is getting a remake

In 1997, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Jon Voight took us on the trail of the largest reptile in the Amazon jungle: the anaconda.

After 27 years, the world’s biggest snake will return to cinema. Announced in 2020 by Sony Pictures, shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic, a feature film written by Evan Dougherty (Divergent, Tomb Raider) and Tom Gormiken (A Talent in Solid Gold) – who will also direct the film – is to have a meta. Approach If we are to believe the latest statements Jeff Snyder during The Hot Mic podcast.

Just like his previous film, “Gone in Gold,” which featured Nicolas Cage playing a different version of himself, the new “Anaconda” is set to feature famous actors playing enhanced versions of themselves in the film’s adventures when things take a realistic path.

To date, no actors have been announced for casting, so we don’t know if the original cast of Luis Llosa’s film and sequels Anacondas: In Pursuit of the Blood Orchid (2004), Anaconda 3: The Heir with David Hasselhoff and the TV movie Anacondas 4 : Blood Trail will play their role again. In 2015, Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, the killer crocodile film series from Lake Placid, is released.

in anaconda Jennifer Lopez He played an anthropologist who came with his team (including ice cube), make a documentary about the unknown people of the Amazon. Then the team helped Paul Sarrone (Jon Voight), a snake hunter whose boat was wrecked. But very quickly a crazed hunter takes the team hostage and sets off in pursuit of the largest of the reptiles, the Anaconda, which destroys its prey before swallowing them whole.

With a worldwide box office of $135 million, this film, which was hated by critics and rated 1.5 out of 5 stars by internet users of AlloCiné, ended up becoming a 90s action movie classic.