Here's something I didn't have on my 2025 bingo card. Timothée Chalamet recently pitched a Training Day remake, and NBA star Anthony Edwards wants to play Denzel Washington's iconic corrupt cop role. Look, this was all likely just a joke. The idea came up during the inaugural Believe That Awards this month, where Chalamet was crowned "White Boy of the Year" (yes, really). It was a decidedly casual atmosphere, a 20-minute YouTube livestream with plenty of hijinks, so take all this with a grain of salt.Edwards and Chalamet were joking about the actor moving into directing, and Chalamet brought it up."Whenever you start directing a movie and you need somebody to be your main character, call your boy," Edwards said. Chalamet commented that he needed more "street cred," to the audience's amusement.Then he added, "It could be a Training Day reboot." Edwards got excited. "Let me be Denzel [Washington] and you be Officer Hoyt."Edwards had one non-negotiable demand he mentioned up top, though. "I can't die in the movie. That's the only thing." Smart move, considering how audiences reacted to Washington's character getting gunned down in the original. Test screenings were apparently brutal.The guys were probably just being silly, but this whole thing got me thinking about the legacy of the film. - YouTube youtu.be The Original Training Day In the original film, Washington's Alonzo Harris was a corrupt narcotics officer who weaponized mentorship, manipulating rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) through a single, devastating 12-hour shift in Los Angeles. The...
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