Deadline has revealed that Paramount Pictures is putting together a package to bring Hawaii Five-O to the big screen. Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton is developing the project with an eye to directing, while Chris Bremner (Bad Boys for Life) will write the script. Noah Oppenheim (Jackie) is producing.
Attempts to develop the classic 1960s TV series as a movie have been made in the past, while there was a small-screen reboot which ran for a decade on CBS starting in 2010. That starred Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, and Grace Park.
The original Hawaii Five-O followed an elite, fictional state police task force answering directly to the governor of Hawaii. Detective Captain Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), a tough former Navy intelligence officer, heads the small four-man team that handles major, high-stakes crimes across the islands.
As the trade puts it, "Done right, there is a great leading-man role opportunity here for a film shot in a most beautiful location, and franchise potential for the crime procedural premise."
So, where does this leave Spider-Man 5? The report briefly mentions that Cretton "has a lot of irons in the fire, including the inevitable next Spidey instalment and a Naruto film."
Naruto is up next for the filmmaker, so the question now is: does he tackle Spider-Man 5 after that and before he moves on to Hawaii Five-O, or will this reboot be the priority? If the latter happens, Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures will surely seek a new director to continue Peter Parker's story.
This also doesn't bode well for Shang-Chi 2, a movie that it seems doubtful will ever happen after Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' release in 2021.
Cretton has repeatedly played coy when asked about Spider-Man 5, but suggested he'd be interested in returning while discussing Brand New Day's ending. "Listen, we’re definitely not trying to torture people with ambiguity. I feel like what’s very clear is the emotion you’re left with when we cut to black. To me, there’s a very clear feeling of joy — just enough — and then you cut to black."
"I have seen the theories, and I love the theories. I think they’re so cool, and I don’t want to stop that conversation by putting my opinion in the middle of it. Knowing there will be another movie, that conversation will continue in the writer’s room as we figure out — if we figure out — what we’re going to do next."
"That’s what’s so cool about these movies. The fans are so engaged. Everybody on our side is listening to everything," he continued. "Those are conversations we’ve had in the writers’ room as well, and I think it’s fun that everybody is participating not just in analyzing this movie, but potentially in creating whatever happens in the next one."
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is now playing in theaters. A release date for Spider-Man 5 has not been announced.