“Easy Rider” gets a remake – adapted to today’s youth

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A remake of the cult film “Easy Rider” from 1969 is in the works. Adaptation rights are held by several people and production companies, including producer Maurice Fadida’s Kodiak Pictures, Eric B. Fleischman and the Jean Boulle Group. According to a report by Variety, their plan is to redesign the film in a new and contemporary way.

The aim of the new edition is to build on the story of “counterculture and freedom that the original left us,” says Fadida. He wanted to offer “today’s youth” a film “that pays serious attention to their own countercultures and challenges”. He adds: “What young viewers experience in their everyday life today may seem crazy to older generations, but it may very well become a societal norm, as was the case with the cultural shift in the late 1960s.”

At the moment the producers are looking for writers and directors who want to realize the project.

Left to right: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson

Easy Rider was written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern. The film describes the lifestyle of bikers in the late 1960s. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who want to make money from contraband drugs in New Orleans.

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