The Guys Behind Cobra Kai Want To Make A Duke Nukem Movie
Every now and then you run across a Hollywood news item so strange, all you can think is, “Well, good luck with that, you’re gonna need it.” This one definitely falls under that category.
Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, creators of the hit series Cobra Kai, are interested in making a movie. No, not a Cobra Kai movie (it already has a movie, it’s called The Karate Kid). They just licensed the rights to Duke Nukem, the beefy hyper-masculine star of a series of PC FPS games in the 90s.
Duke could not be more out of place for the 2020s. The whole point of him was to offend the easily offended. He’s unapologetically crass and violent and you better believe he thinks of women as objects. He also steals all his lines from movies (according to this, Bruce Campbell considered suing, but decided not to).
We’re not sure what the Cobra Kai guys are thinking here. But we could mine Cobra Kai itself for clues. The series contains several macho-man characters, most of them in the role of villains. The exception is Johnny, the antagonist of the original movie who is still stuck in the past and struggling to relate to this modern world. Point is, none of them are portrayed as role models, so the likelihood of this being a straight-on Duke movie and not a satire is low.
Guess we’ll see what they have in mind, assuming this goes far enough to be produced. Groo-veeee (sorry, Bruce).
PriestTimeTraVelX
June 12, 2022 @ 11:58 am
Is this going to be in two decades of Development Hell like Duke Nukem forever? I was skeptic when Cobra Kai was announced years ago and I end up becoming a Karate Kid fan so these guys must be up for something good.
toddj82
June 12, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
Who do you think would make an excellent Duke Nukem? John Cena! He have the physique and demeanor to pull it off. I have some faith in this one because Cobra Kai should never have worked and yet did. Depending on how they approach it, this could be amusing. However, I’m not going to hold my breath.
MRoberts
June 12, 2022 @ 12:20 pm
The ComicGaters and Friday Night Whites of YouTube will love this movie.Especially the fans of the comic Jawbreakers. Finally a movie with a straight white male. I love pissing of those bigots so I hope they cast John Boyega as Nukem and his love interest is Brie Larson.
Tetsu
June 12, 2022 @ 12:22 pm
I enjoy Duke Nukem, but this would not be appropriate today. Duke has to be toned down a lot or he’ll become the punchline. Who in their right mind wants a Duke Nukem movie? In at least a decade, he hasn’t been relevant. This franchise, I thought, had successfully buried itself a decade ago. Isn’t it around 40 years old and on the verge of being discarded?
Dark_Pinoy
June 12, 2022 @ 12:28 pm
I can’t wait for this to be released on BluRay after 15 years. Why would this be a good idea if no one cares about Duke Nukem? He’s a footnote in the world of first-person shooters.
Natures
June 12, 2022 @ 12:29 pm
I bet this will be better than the Resident Evil adaptations.
Bulma
June 12, 2022 @ 12:31 pm
It would be a lot of fun to make a Duke Nukem movie that defies political correctness and offends everyone. Duke Nukem was out when I was in college, and while I like it, it fit into the greater milieu of bombastic 1990s action films that it was ridiculing.
RedditBannedMe
June 12, 2022 @ 12:32 pm
The Cobra Kai theme is able to make Karate Kid relevant again. So this could be good, some people here are too negative.