Editing Taxi Driver (section)

== Possible sequel and remake ==
In late January 2005, De Niro and Scorsese announced a sequel.<ref name="New Taxi Driver suggested">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/feb/02/news.xanbrooks |title=Scorsese and De Niro plan Taxi Driver sequel |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=February 5, 2005 |access-date=February 24, 2010 |location=London |first=Xan |last=Brooks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715003107/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/feb/02/news.xanbrooks |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> At a 25th-anniversary screening of ''[[Raging Bull]]'', De Niro talked about the development of a story featuring an older Travis Bickle. In 2000, De Niro expressed interest in returning to the character in a conversation with [[Actors Studio]] host [[James Lipton]].<ref name="Taxi Driver 2">{{cite web |last=Saravia |first=Jerry |url=http://www.geocities.com/faustus_08520/taxidriver2.html |title=Taxi Driver 2: Bringing Out Travis |publisher=faustus |access-date=February 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027025319/http://www.geocities.com/faustus_08520/taxidriver2.html |archive-date=October 27, 2009}}</ref> In November 2013, he revealed that Schrader had written a first draft, but both he and Scorsese thought that it was not good enough to proceed.<ref name="Taxi Driver sequel">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/14/robert-de-niro-travis-bickle-taxi-driver |title=Robert De Niro: 'I'd like to see where Travis Bickle is today' |work=The Guardian |date=November 14, 2013 |access-date=December 28, 2014 |location=London |first=Xan |last=Brooks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124024134/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/14/robert-de-niro-travis-bickle-taxi-driver |archive-date=November 24, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Schrader disputed this in a 2024 interview, saying, "Robert is the one who wanted to do that. He asked Marty and I. [...] So he pressed Marty on it and Marty asked me and I said, 'Marty, that's the worst fucking idea I've ever heard.' He said, 'Yeah, but you tell him. Let's have dinner.' So we had dinner at Bob's restaurant and Bob was talking about it. I said, 'Wow, that's the worst fucking idea I've ever heard. That character dies at the end of that movie or dies shortly thereafter. He's gone. Oh, but maybe there is a version of him that I could do. Maybe he became Ted Kaczynski and maybe he's in a cabin somewhere and just sitting there, making letter bombs. Now, that would be cool. That would be a nice Travis. He doesn't have a cab anymore. He just sits there [laughs] making letter bombs.' But Bob didn't cotton to that idea, either."<ref name = Newman>{{cite news|url = https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/paul-schrader-oh-canada-quentin-tarantino-the-movie-critic-interview-1235006283/|title = Paul Schrader on 'Oh, Canada,' Tarantino's 'The Movie Critic,' and the 'Worst F**king Idea' of a 'Taxi Driver' Sequel |last = Newman|first = Nick|work = Indiewire|date = 20 May 2024}}</ref>

In 2010, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' reported rumors that [[Lars von Trier]], Scorsese and De Niro planned to work on a remake of the film with the same restrictions used in ''[[The Five Obstructions]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/35923/lars-von-trier-robert-deniro-and-martin-scorsese-collaborating-new-taxi-driver |author=Steve Barton |date=February 16, 2010 |title=Lars von Trier, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese Collaborating on New ''Taxi Driver'' |website=[[Dread Central]] |access-date=February 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217185334/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/35923/lars-von-trier-robert-deniro-and-martin-scorsese-collaborating-new-taxi-driver|archive-date=February 17, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> However, in 2014, Paul Schrader said that the remake was not being made. He commented, "It was a terrible idea," and "in Marty's mind, it never was something that should be done".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/taxi-driver-will-not-be-remade-by-lars-von-trier-i-201262 |first=Dan |last=Selcke |date=February 19, 2014 |title=''Taxi Driver'' will not be remade by Lars Von Trier, if anyone was worried |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |access-date=July 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818075005/http://www.avclub.com/article/taxi-driver-will-not-be-remade-by-lars-von-trier-i-201262|archive-date=August 18, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>