Fletch reboot movie starring Jon Hamm starts filming this month. Chevy Chase played wisecracking, disguise-wearing reporter Fletch in the 1985 original, an adaptation of Gregory Mcdonald’s Fletch novels. Chase then returned as Fletch for the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives. For the last twenty years, efforts have been underway to reboot the franchise, with everyone from Harvey Weinstein to Kevin Smith to Zach Braff to Jason Sudeikis becoming involved at various points.
In 2020 it was announced that all those efforts to launch a Fletch reboot were finally paying off. Hamm will produce and star in the movie for Miramax with Greg Mottola handling directing duties and Zev Borow writing. Mottola himself just took to Twitter to update fans on the reboot, announcing that the movie is set to go before cameras beginning this month. See the tweet in the space below:
Hamm and Mottola’s Fletch will specifically adapt Confess, Fletch, the second book in the original Mcdonald series to be published (but the sixth book in the continuity later established via multiple prequel novels). The movie is said to be a modernized update that sticks closer to the noirish tone of the books, as compared to the 1980s movies which reworked the stories into broad comedy vehicles for Chase.
The logline for Fletch the reboot reads: “In a mysterious chain of wild events, Fletch finds himself in the middle of multiple murders – one of which pins him as a prime suspect. While on a quest to prove his innocence, Fletch is tasked with finding his fiancée’s stolen art collection, the only inheritance she’s acquired after her father goes missing and is presumed dead.”
Source: Greg Mottola/Twitter