‘La Bamba’ remake in the works!!!

Coming this fall: Viola Davis is Ritchie Valens

BOO!! You don't remake good films -you remake bad films to make them better.

oooooooooooh Donna

We don't need this.

Kids today don’t even know who he is anymore, go to any skibidi Zoomer and ask them if they know La Bamba.

The main age brackets, those who go to the movies, do not know who the Ritchie Valens was, and therefore this is going to be a fucking bomb.

I’m Gen X and I don’t really think I knew who Valens was before the movie. And I probably came out of it more impressed with Bob.

First off La Bamba was not a good movie but it was also not a bad one. Did you grow up in space R7? What Gen Xer doesn't know who fucking sang La Bamba??

We only had country stations on the radio, R8. I don’t think the song La Bamba was a thing for me before the movie. Wooly Bully, yes.

R5 R6 they can learn who he is though. The movie will give him exposure. A lot of them probably didn’t know who Freddie Mercury was before Bohemian Rhapsody came out and now they all know him and listen to Queen

Honestly yes, it was so remote that it might as well have been space, R8. No MTV either.

It was already done well. Why can’t they pick someone who hasn’t already had a movie done about them?

Is Oprah involved with this ? Will Whoopi make a guest appearance ? Will Sarah Haines say she's hearing 'Oscar buzz' before this gets made ?

Why?

[quote]Why can’t they pick someone who hasn’t already had a movie done about them?

I'm waiting.

Oh boy, I can't wait to hear that fucking song being played EVERYWHERE once the movie comes out.

Will it be the true story this time or will Hollywood half-truths win?

r16 The words are "Para bailar la bamba."

Skip this one and give us someone new. John Phillips? That'd have some VERY interesting scenes!

Quién pidió esto?

This time hire a Chicano actor to play Valens, not a Filipino.

This is the original, best version of "La Bamba":

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Richie’s brother Bob died in 2018, besides no one will ever be as hot as Esai Morales was when he played Bob in 1987.

It is weird to field this territory once again so soon after covering it the first time. Why not do a The Jets movie. Tonga pride! Please no Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, though. Save that for Broadway.

Nah, we're good.

I've had sufficient.

The Valenzuela family was probably inspired by Selena Quintanilla Perez's dad Abraham who managed to get a Netflix series years after the biopic that starred JLo.

WHET Lou Diamond Phillips?

So glad for the Hollywood entertainment community’s strike win a couple years back and all their resulting new creative originality

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[quote]It is weird to field this territory once again so soon after covering it the first time.

The first movie was 38 years ago, r25.

Crazy remaking movies that are already really good.

For 40 years I thought Lou Diamond Phillips was Native American.

Why don’t they make a Phil Spector movie?

Will it star Ricky Martin

R34 HBO made one some years back.

Wow this is something I wasn’t asking for but am actually interested.

Imagine dying at 17 and becoming such a legend during your short life that people are still making films about you almost 60 years later.