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There have been so very many stops and starts with rebooting Fletch over the past twenty years that I will believe it when I see it.
Overall I think Hamm is a decent choice. Jason Lee and then Ben Affleck were attached when Kevin Smith was trying to direct it for many years, Zach Braff was gonna be Fletch with Bill Lawrence at the helm, and most recently it was supposed to be Jason Sudeikis directed by Steve Pink. The original movie is so damn good almost in spite of Chevy Chase. It is his best role in many ways, but they infused it with maybe a touch too much mid-'80s wackiness. It succeeds so well despite these tonal shifts because at its core they adapted the novel pretty damn well and it played to Chevy's strengths. With Fletch Lives, for some eternally dumb reason, they did not adapt another one of the novels. Despite the same director being at the helm (a director I like) there was no strong story to fall back on. Just empty Chevy schtick. It killed what could have been a true franchise for him had they kept going back to the source material.
I like Mottola's Adventureland and Day Trippers a lot. Superbad is definitely fun as is Larry David's Clear History, but Paul was slightly disappointing given the cast and premise and Keeping Up with the Joneses was a true dud.
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