One of the biggest, loudest, BOOMiest moves of the 1980s is getting the reboot treatment as writer/director David Ayer has signed on to remake Commando, the seminal Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick.

Ayer, who wrote the Denzel Washington hit Training Day, has agreed to both write and direct the picture, the original of which helped make the future Governator a star. Released in 1985, Commando was Schwarzenegger’s first post-Conan hit and established the muscle-bound Austrian as a new breed of action star.

A report on Deadline Hollywood suggests that Ayer, himself a former Navy soldier, plans to make some pretty significant changes to the story. In the original, Arnie played a former soldier reluctantly brought back into the fight after an evil dictator kidnaps his daughter. Ayer is said to be keen to make the new film more realistic and feature a Commando who’s less muscle and more strategy.

It’s a nervy strategy for a film best remembered for its hammy dialogue and ridiculous explosions, but audiences today have different expectations for their action films. Commando joins Predator in the list of 80s Schwarzenegger flicks currently getting redone and sequel-ized.

No casting decisions have been made or announced, but one has to imagine that every young actor in Hollywood looking to establish himself as a tough guy will be eyeing the role.

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