"Strange Days" (2025 Re-make)

"An extreme taste of reality."

The Pitch: A re-make of the polarizing cult-classic Kathryn Bigelow film "Strange Days," in honor of the film's 30th anniversary in the year 2025. Set in Los Angeles on the last two days of 1999, the story follows Lenny Nero, a black marketeer of an electronic device that allows a user to experience the recorded memories and physical sensations of other people, and Lornette "Mace" Mason, a bodyguard and limousine driver, as they are drawn into a criminal conspiracy involving Nero's ex-girlfriend Faith Justin and the murder of a prostitute. Blending science fiction with film noir conventions, Strange Days explores themes such as racism, abuse of power, rape and voyeurism. The main change in this re-make is that unlike in the original movie in which the A.C.A.B. themes that are present throughout until a deus-ex-machina of one good cop saving the day, here the maintain to the very end so that the ending is no longer dependent on one cop with authority saves the day but instead is the rioting citizens and protestors fighting back against the police is what turns the tide. That, and the conspiracy of the police and even more so U.S. government using the recent murders as an excuse to make the U.S. a rightwing dystopia for the police to control is now real, unlike the original movie in which it is revealed to be a hoax conceived by Tom Sizemore's character to distract the protagonists from his own schemes.

Story added by westfriedkin on December 8, 2024