Taxi Driver Sequel, or remake

Now bear with me here, Robert Deniro's still alive, he can play the Travis in modern day society. I mean think of all the people who would watch this film and not even know of the original. I mean it's a steal art country, and people are pretty much making sequels or cheesy remakes, to classic movies. Personally, I can't stand most remakes and some sequels here and there, "The Mummy" was awful, bad example. Where's all the cheese coming from to make these horrible movies? Anyways, your thoughts in general.

i dont like taxi driver because they are sooo hopeless persons they cant belive in god they are tooo restless persons however they are hardworking and managable persons
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You're kidding right?

He's trying to tell us something guys.

To add to the randomness--- if Ryan Gosling played Travis, Andy Dick played Easy Andy, Lindsay Lohan played Iris, Lisa Lampanelli played Betsy, and Sacha Baron Cohen played Sport....I'd probably download it...

I do agree TD's are hardworking and manageable persons, though

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Taxi Driver is a good movie but it's quite hard to watch many times,quite depressing and filthy. :/ Remake would be interesting but honestly,I doubt that it will be better than original unless cast is like the post above said.

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I feel where your coming from, I could only watch through it a little bit, before I turn off the TV and go outside. It's more of a movie about someone you don't want to become like. He's got Insomnia, schizophrenia, and just playing the field like a typical loner. It's something guys tend to understand a lot, the porn theaters, the loneliness. This film isn't intended for everyone, but something very disturbing about his smile in the movie, tends to make the audience cringe.

Travis Bickle was a Vietnam veteren, if there were a remake, he should be an Iraq/Afghanistan war veteren, it just fits in way better. No one can relate to loneliness better than them. So why not make a movie they can all relate to, other than war movies.
Somebodys got to relate to this movie wheather they work grave shifts, or just really depressing jobs. I personally can't relate to being a taxi driver, but I know most of the drivers are immigrants. They're greatful as hell to be working as taxi driver's suprisingly.

Revisiting the character decades later is an intriguing premise. If I remember correctly, De Niro even expressed interest in getting a script going for it on his episode of Inside the Actor's Studio.

That's where I heard it from. I'd like him to consider giving it a chance. Who knows what Travis would be like now?

Hmm, that's not exactly a guarantee of quality these days, is it?

Depressingly, I came up with the idea of a Taxi Driver sequel several years ago as a joke about Hollywood's tendency to stomp on the memory of great films in order to make a few bucks. As I remember, the plot ran something like:

Travis is now married with a daughter, and runs a modestly successful private taxi firm. He learns that Iris is being menaced by drug-dealing Afgan baddies (for some reason) and sets off to help her ("it's just something that I godda do" he explains to his wife). But when the baddies realise he's on their case they kidnap his daughter to try and scare him off. Easy Andy tools him up with a whole range of automatic weapons and after lots of car chases and leaping through the air in slow motion while firing two guns at once with big explosions happening behind him he manages to save his daughter. Iris dies a hero's death, giving up her own life so that the father and daughter can triumph.

If you can't see why this is a sickeningly crass idea then human civilisation is doomed.

How could do a remake of Taxi Driver? That's weird and also despicable

I like the movie where it left off, people thinking Travis is a hero for saving Iris, yet him obviously still messed up, with that final shot of him quickly glancing in the mirror as if he saw something that wasn't really there (I totally cop to not noticing that the first time I saw it---that's why I love the extras on DVD---this was on the Special Edition DVD, the commentary or behind-the-scenes, can't remember which).

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Technically its a superb movie and a definite classic. Sometimes however I think that it glorifies vigilantism. It might not be Scorsese's intention but a lot of people believe it praises male masculinity and that violence does solve issues. Its satire has waned throughout the years, and there are more effective films that muse on the notion of violence (Battle Royale, A Clockwork Orange, A History of Violence etc).

I would definitely be interested in a serious sequel directed by Scorsese and with Robert De Niro as an older Travis.