I never liked The Fugitive, the TV show or the movie. It was one of those shows where a guy travels from place and place and helps people with their problems. The movie with Harrison Ford had to skip all that and just remade the pilot and the series finale. He escapes from the train taking him to prison and -- SPOILER ALERT -- finds the real killer.
Now they're doing a remake.
If they want to make a movie that's REALLY based on the TV show, they'll skip the origin story and have the Fugitive appear in a small Peyton Place-like town where he begins helping everyone solve their emotional problems. That way, they can do sequels.
In fact, instead of an escaped surgeon, he should be a psychiatrist who's been wrongly convicted of killing his wife. And to ease the main character's psychic pain, they should make it clear that his wife was a horrible person and that he's better off without her even if he has to be a fugitive.
The origin story isn't that interesting. They could cover it during the opening credits, or not even that. Just state it on the movie poster. People can read it on the way in.
But it sounds like the only thing they're going to do different is make Dr Richard Kimble an African-American.
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