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Bingowings
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Movies that should be re-made
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7-Jul-2009, 11:31 AM

Dune needs to be remade (possibly as two films in a series covering the whole Frank Herbert series over many films) the current plans for another film version don't fill me with much confidence.

Hellraiser needs to be remade more like The Hellbound Heart and with a more serious tone. Once again I'm not convinced this is how the proposed remake project will end up.

The Star Wars prequels (yes I've said it too) there is really too much wrong with them to turn them into classics, we can try to fiddle with what we have but in my gut I think the best option is to start again.

The Lathe Of Heaven, such a great idea if remade by someone who kept the story and didn't swamp it with OTT action and special effects it would worthy of a second go.

Millenium, once again a brilliant central idea (the novel, based on the aborted screenplay, based on the short story is such a good read btw) let down by a low budget and chessy sci-fi flavours for the future sequences. A remake would be very welcome.

This will get heads turning but I think a remake of William Blatty's loose trilogy about faith (The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration and Legion) with all the linking characters played by the same actors and some of the stupid additions (like the spinning heads in the first one and the tacked on exorcism in what became Exorcist 3) would make a fine companion piece to the films that already exist. Just as long as Morgan Creek have nothing to do with it and the three stories were blended with linking material (like having the Gemini killer on the news in the background of the first story and having Cutshaw freaking out on the launch pad because of what Regan MacNeil said to him at the party). If they were filmed as one project and shown either as a mini-series or in cinemas it would be a much more palatable alternative to the inevitable remake of The Exorcist that's bound to be thrust upon us some time in the future.