It’s exceedingly rare for remakes to ever be worthwhile. Just iterating over some recent-ish remakes in my head (Robocop, Total Recall) I struggle to find anything of quality. Every now and then something like Dune 2021 comes along, but (A) this is very rare, and (B) it wasn’t a remake of something known primarily as an earlier movie, but rather a new adaptation of literary source material, which is arguably something entirely different. Granted, this is a fuzzy distinction, because something like Total Recall also has literary origins, but very few people are aware of that, so the 80s Schwarzenegger flick is considered the “original” material. At some point in the future, we may start to consider classic movies the equivalent of literary source material like Shakespeare, Tolkien, Frank Herbert, whatever. But as of now, most people don’t view classic movies like that because a lot of our emotional investment in these movies is attached to the specific implementation of the original, i.e. the original cast, performances, etc. I mean it’s really hard to just “remake” Harrison Ford’s Han Solo. (Or maybe it’s not… ?)

Anyway, they already remade A New Hope back in 2015. It was called Episode VII: The Force Awakens.