When Rollerball was released in 1975, it offered a chilling vision of a future in which multinational corporations rule the world, diverting the masses by sponsoring a mindlessly contrived, ultra-violent sport—the Davos version of Roman circuses. Twenty-six years later, in an age that has given us News Corp.'s ownership of sports properties on five continents and G.E.'s half-stake in the mindlessly contrived, ultra-violent X.F.L.. Rollerball may well be ripe for freshening up. That's what director John McTiernan (Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October) is banking on: his remake of the old James Caan vehicle will be out this August. The film only looks as if it takes place in a Third Reich gone gaga for Roller Derby; it is actually set "five minutes in the future" in a nameless post-Soviet country. The stars are Chris Klein, showing a butch-er side after American Pie and Election; LL Cool J, making the easier transition from Oliver Stone's football movie, Any Given Sunday; and the model Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. One request: If they're going to remake James Caan vehicles, why not Slither?