Quibi reportedly lost 90% of its first-day users after their free trials expired earlier this month, but the mobile streamer is hoping its surplus of A-listers (and newfound allowance of screenshots) will draw them back. Next on the docket? One of the first originals announced by the nascent platform: The Fugitive.
Nick Santora’s spin on the dogged-cop-chases-innocent-man premise touts itself as hyper-modern, with social media and clout-chasing digital journalists amplifying the kind of misinformation that turns our ex-con hero (Boyd Holbrook) into the most wanted man alive. 24 fans will be happy to see Kiefer Sutherland vested up, his fevered bark as gruff as ever. Also, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton is in this? That’s almost enough to get us to restart our subscription.
Watch the trailer below.
The Fugitive will unfold across 14 “quick bites,” with a new installment dropping every weekday between August 3 and 18.
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Militarized domestic police forces have lost their luster as a topic now that they’ve taken to kidnapping middle-aged women off the street who are protesting police brutality.
Radical Moms, coming 2021 to HBO…
*sick guitar riff*
I eagerly await this, Dummy and any vaguely interesting Quibi dramas becoming 90-120 minute long movies on Netlfix or Prime after the contractually mandated 2 year* window…*I think it was 2 years. I’m not invested enough to spend 15 seconds checking.
Kiefer Sutherland working for CTUB is such a desperate try-hard attempt to get people to remember 24.Do. Not. Want.
For a long time, I never understood why people loved 24 so much. The concept of multiple things happening at once didn’t appeal to me. I don’t mind the framing device when used with restraint in movies. Expanding this into an entire TV season sounded exhausting.After Wanda Sykes joked about being against torture while rooting for Jack Bauer to torture people, 24 finally made sense. The show tapped into 9/11 revenge fantasies.
It was an interesting concept, and I watched every episode of it. That said, I can look back on it and realize a lot of what it did was cliched and as the seasons went on incredibly absurd stretches of reality.There was always a mole, Jack was never wrong, etc…it worked for one season but honestly that’s all it should’ve been.Though the one season where President Logan was the villain would be hilarious to go back and watch now.
Why is he so good at playing authoritarians?
I’m astounded by Quibi’s ability to get literally every single thing wrong.
Where’s your Zune coverage?
Maybe it makes more sense in the actual show, but the premise is that their chief suspect for a subway bombing is a guy who was not only still in the station when the bomb went off but was walking directly toward the train that exploded and nearly got killed by it?
“should we review footage from previous days to see if we can spot someone planting the bomb?”“Why would we do that!? Look at this guy right there with a cell phone in his hands! A CELL PHONE!”
i know why it literally makes sense, but the idea that a tv remake of a movie that was a remake of a tv show qualifies as an ‘original’ is very funny to me.
Plus, it was already remade as a TV show in 2000 with Madame Secretary’s Husband playing Dr. Kimble.
I feel like the basic concept of an innocent fugitive is broad enough to be its own genre and not be forever tied to one Dr. Richard Kimble. It’s unfortunate that the original show was named “THE Fugitive”, immediately proclaiming itself as being the definitive tale of a fugitive. Of course, titling this new story with its new characters “The Fugitive” doesn’t help set it apart, either…
The twist is that the antagonist only has one arm in portrait view, but when you turn your phone to landscape it has enough screen space to show both arms.
Quibi missed out on Steven Seagal’s Letterbox 2000.
The twist is, during the critical moment when the fugitive passionately intones “I didn’t bomb that subway” it will be the audience that doesn’t care.
“What happened?”“Our subscriber count did a Peter Pan off this app, right here!”
Quibi: We’ve got The Fugitive!
Me: I don’t care!
If David Janssen isn’t in it avoiding all eye contact and squinting up a storm that’s a hard pass.Also, bring back “Harry O,” now that I’d take a look at.
Needs more Chris Elliott……
The Fugitive being one of my favorite movies of all time, I must say I am so happy that this reboot looks to be the most forgettable reboot ever made on the most forgettable streaming platform ever made. Also, seriously? Taking a simple murder mystery set up and turning it into a 9/11 inspired terrorist plot? What is this, 2003?
Are we (I use the “we” loosely) still trying to make this a thing? The whole concept of QuiBi is just…bizarre.
Not so sure about this “quick bites” format. Each episode is about 7-15 minutes long. Sounds like it’ll be a fast paced watered down version of 24. And I love 24, and really wanna like this new take on The Fugitive, but sounds like it’ll just be set on fast-forward.