The Bodyguard is the most recent beloved movie to get the modern-day remake treatment.
Plans for a new edition of the 1992 Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner film have reportedly been within the works since 2011. The movie starred Costner as Frank Farmer, the titular bodyguard hired to guard Rachel Marron, an actress and musician played by Houston. Over the course of the film, Frank and Rachel fall in love, but they eventually realize that their romance could never work.
Though the movie was critically panned on the time of its release, it has endured as a classic thanks partially to its soundtrack, which featured Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton‘s “I Will All the time Love You,” in addition to “I’m Every Woman” and “Queen of the Night.” Two songs from the movie, “I Have Nothing” and “Run to You,” were nominated for Best Original Song on the 1993 Academy Awards. (They each lost to “A Whole Recent World” from Aladdin.)
In 2012, Costner revealed that there was originally imagined to be a sequel to The Bodyguard released within the Nineteen Nineties — and Princess Diana was on board to star in it. “I said, ‘Look, I’m gonna write this part with you in mind. Is that this something that you prefer to to do?’” he recalled. “And she or he said, ‘Yes, I do.’”
After the royal’s 1997 death, nonetheless, plans for the movie were scrapped.
Tony award-winning playwright Matthew López was attached to jot down The Bodyguard remake in 2021, together with his version specializing in an up-and-coming Latina singer. In April 2025, nonetheless, it was announced Sam Wrench can be directing the remake based on a script by Juror #2 author Jonathan A. Abrams.
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