The director of King of Kong is rumored to be heading up the reboot of one of my favorite childhood films. I sincerely hope if and when this movie gets made it will have a much more evolved AI Joshua.
The world has changed so much since 1983, the games played in War Games were very simplistic games by today's standards, so the idea of a reboot confounds me a little, I just can't wrap my head around what kinds of games Joshua will be playing. In 1983 the games were all text and ASCII art on PC, The difference between games then and now is like comparing an amoeba to a human. It makes me wonder if Joshua will have robotic parts to use controllers/mouse/keyboard or will be directly interfacing in games electronically. And well, lets face it, if Joshua plays an FPS everyone will be crying "AIM BOT" :)
I think the unsung greatness of the origonal WarGames was the great chemistry on screen between Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. Lets just pray that the movie has a great casting director and they will make sure to have readings of actors together to ensure that great chemistry that made the first film amazing is represented in the reboot.
