Nobody bats an eyelid these days when anything is announced for a remake, reboot, or reimagining, but the case of forgotten 1995 legal thriller Just Cause raised a few eyebrows based solely on the involvement of one of its key players.
Based on John Katzenbach’s novel of the same name, the story finds a death row convict calling in a law professor to help protest his innocence eight years after the fact. Naturally, Sean Connery’s esteemed veteran discovers key evidence that was overlooked the first time around, but the authorities aren’t interested in seeing the alleged murderer exonerated.
Earning $63 million at the box office and securing a Rotten Tomatoes score of only 26 percent, it would be fair to say that the film isn’t one held in such a high regard that a do-over is deemed an unforgivable sin. However, what makes it interesting is that Scarlett Johansson will be producing and playing the lead role in an episodic overhaul currently in the works at Prime Video, almost 30 years after she played Connery’s daughter in the original.
Overlooking the questionable creativity in having a novel that was adapted for the screen being remade by somebody who starred in the previous version, it’s going to be a full circle moment for the Marvel Cinematic Universe regardless, in what marks her first-ever leading role in a TV project into the bargain.
Ahead of Just Cause V2.0 diving into production, Prime Video subscribers have been revisiting its forebear in their numbers, with FlixPatrol revealing it to be one of the platform’s top-viewed titles this week.