Hogan told People Magazine: Im excited to introduce the new Crocodile Dundee to the world, and he described the film as one that has stood the test of time.
So if we assume the unthinkable: that this project is actually going ahead (though Screen Australia has not confirmed it), what would Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home need to do to capture the spirit of the original three Crocodile Dundee movies, released in 1986, 1988 and 2001?
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Take, for example, a scene from the original film, based in a pub in New York. Mick Dundee (Hogan) chats up a trans woman, before a friend pulls him aside: Ive been trying to tell you all night, that girl, shes a guy! Dundee responds by sexual assaulting her. He grabs the woman in the groin area, then points and yells: A guy dressed up like a sheila! Look at that!
The pub erupts into laughter and applause. There are high fives and back slaps.
Dundee sexually assaults another women later on, in the same way, at an art gallery. His love interest Sue (Linda Kozlowski) consoles the distraught woman by saying: Its OK, hes Australian.
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Sue, a journalist, initially appears to have a reasonable amount of agency, before we learn she is dating her editor and her father is the publisher. During a quiet scene in the original movie (directed by Peter Faiman and written by Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell), Sue complains to Dundee about a previous lover. She says this guy is a lefty type, probably marching right now, for the gay Nazis or something.
Dundee, disgusted, tells her he sounds like a prize ratbag. He then discusses land rights and Indigenous Australians. They dont own the land, they belong to it, he says, going on to compare people discussing land ownership to fleas debating who owns the dog.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. -George Orwell
