Some films feature timeless stories that are easily adapted for whatever decade you live in. But others are such a product of their time, they serve almost like time capsules that showcase the world at a very specific moment in history. The idea of remaking, rebooting, or sequelizing one of those films seems almost silly. With that in mind, the people who hold the rights to “Easy Rider” have just announced their plans to remake the classic 1969 film. 

According to Variety, the rights holders to the classic counterculture film, “Easy Rider,” which includes Kodiak Pictures, Defiant Studios, and the Jean Boulle Group, are now on the hunt for writers and directors who are interested in taking Dennis Hopper’s film and updating it for the current time.

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Jack Nicholson is eccentric. Jack Nicholson is also rich enough to afford the luxury of eccentricity. But even in the late ’60s, remember the breakout role of “Easy Rider” didn’t come until 1969, Nicholson did weird, surreal things like walking around nude for months at a time. “As a matter of self-help, he spent three months walking around in the nude, at all hours of the day, no matter who stopped by, his daughter included,” Rolling Stone wrote in a 2013 profile.

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On our latest episode, Over/Under Movies takes a look at two films that, while directly connected, take wildly different paths to tell stories about road tripping across America and finding yourself in the process. My co-host Oktay Ege Kozak made the picks here, and he decided on “Easy Rider” for the overrated and “Lost In America” for the under.

Dennis Hopper‘s seminal 1969 film, about two bike riding hippies (Hopper and Peter Fonda) who pull off a drug deal and decide to cruise across the country to find spiritual truth, is understandably iconic.

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With wind in their long hair and drugs stowed in their motorbikes, a couple of born-to-be-wild men blaze a path on the American highway in the opening credits of “Easy Rider.” It’s a quintessential cinematic moment that epitomized the general mood of an entire generation. American 1960s counterculture was a watershed for free speech and socio-politically charged expression from the younger generation. A plethora of movements would rise out of the period, giving voice to the oppressed and the disenfranchised while flipping off The Man as a direct reaction to the disastrous Vietnam War.

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