The "California Kid" redux....It might fly......

Had someone send me a comment the other day about an old post about the "California Kid." If you don't know-the "California Kid" was a made for TV 1974 movie starring Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow and Michelle Phillips. It was set in 1958 and Vic Morrow was an evil small town sheriff who pushed speeders to their deaths with his hopped up cop car. Sheen was a returned Korean War Hero who's brother was killed by Morrow. Sheen's ride was a '34 Ford built by Pete Chapouris that was black with red,yellow and orange flames. The car and it's color scheme is so iconic that when I bought a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle a few years ago-you could pay extra and get a "California Kid" paint job. Anyhow the film was remarkably good by any standard not just TV. It had good acting and dialogue and a lot of suspense as it built to a fight-to-the-finish showdown on a curvy road between Sheen and Morrow. If you can find it on VHS or DVD it's worth gettting. However the conversation got me thinking-Hollywood is always wanting to re-make old classics and this would be a good one to do in the modern era. The evil sheriff could have a Hemi Charger cop car and the "Kid" could be a Roush Mustang or a Factory Five '33 Ford kit car with a supercharged "5.0" Coyote in it. Sheen's character could be a returning Iraq or Afghanistan vet. You could make the sheriff really evil-he's using returning vets to smuggle guns and drugs back and selling them to gangs. The "Kids" brother discovers this and threatens to go to the Justice Dept and of course has to be eliminated....Then big bro comes for retribution.....Don Johnson or Kurt Russell would be good as the evil sheriif. Bradley Cooper is super-hot right now and he could certainly play the Kid. Or they could think outside the box and get Kid Rock or maybe Lucas Black-he was the Quarterback in "Friday Night Lights" and was in a couple of the "Fast and Furious" movies. There was talk that Quentin Tarantino wanted to re-do the Burt Reynolds classic "White Lightning"-I posted about that a while back. But perhaps the "California Kid" would be a better vehicle.... ( Pun intended ).  Mastermind