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Movies that should be re-made

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Ok, here is a place to list the movies that should be re-made.  This could be for updating, or because the original had a good premise, but they made a crap movie the first time around. 

 

"Flash Gordon"

"West World" & "Future World"

"Earthquake"

"Billy Jack"

"Run Silent, Run Deep"

 

 

 

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

 

And I am not even kidding around. I'd be thrilled to see these three films remade, and ultimately, I think it would solve a lot of problems. The disconnect between the two trilogies could be disolved, by literally allowing them to be two series of films. I'd really like this. I'd love to hear George announce a sequel to Revenge of the Sith.

Then we could have an old Star Wars series and a new Star Wars series, and George can go ahead and tell us he really intended two different series of films since he first began working on The Phantom Menance. I can imagine him saying some thing like, "And I said to myself, this isn't going to work. You can have two trilogies, one from the eighties, and one from the 21st century and sell them as one complete saga. So that is when I decided I would remake the originals. I knew people were going to hate me for deciding to do this, so I never said anything about it until now..." and I would be just fine with this. Make life easier. The yungun's could have their flicks, and my beloved films could vanish into precious obscurity (the best place for anything sacred, really).

"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape

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C3PX said:

Star Wars

Empire Strikes Back

Return of the Jedi

 

And I am not even kidding around. I'd be thrilled to see these three films remade, and ultimately, I think it would solve a lot of problems. The disconnect between the two trilogies could be disolved, by literally allowing them to be two series of films. I'd really like this. I'd love to hear George announce a sequel to Revenge of the Sith.

Then we could have an old Star Wars series and a new Star Wars series, and George can go ahead and tell us he really intended two different series of films since he first began working on The Phantom Menance. I can imagine him saying some thing like, "And I said to myself, this isn't going to work. You can have two trilogies, one from the eighties, and one from the 21st century and sell them as one complete saga. So that is when I decided I would remake the originals. I knew people were going to hate me for deciding to do this, so I never said anything about it until now..." and I would be just fine with this. Make life easier. The yungun's could have their flicks, and my beloved films could vanish into precious obscurity (the best place for anything sacred, really).

 

I agree,this is a great idea.

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I was scared to even bring the subject of a SW remake up.   Now that you have taken the first big plunge into such holy territory, I will follow you guys in with my wish to see all the Ian Fleming James Bond films remade. But remake them all close to the books.  Yes I know films like OHMSS, Thunderball, and From Russia With Love are very close to the books. I would love to see them all done as well as Casino Royal was.   My true wish is to see them done as period pieces, taking place in the years that they had originally been written in, but that is never going to happen.  

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That would be cool FF.

I'll add another film to my list of films I'd like to see remade,

Live and Let Die

 

For those who don't know, the book Live and Let Die was the sequel to Casino Royale. Since the recent film adaption of Casino Royale was relatively close to the book, I had very high hopes that they would continue this trend and carry on down the line of Fleming novels with decent quality films... instead we got Quantum of Solace... oh well.

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Star Wars Episodes 1-3 should have never been made period.

I am sure there are people that wish they would be remade.

And Indiana Jones IV should not be remade, it should not even exist.  The end of last crusade was the perfect ending.

X-men, needs to be taken away from Fox and redone.  X-3 was a mediocre film,Wolverine a giant pile of shit.  This proposed young actor prequel recasting "first class" is dumb.  It is only good if they follow the comics being a throwback to the Kirby Era.  Something Tells me they won't be too faithful to the material.

I'm surprised with how pitiful things are they are not doing astonishing X-men as a film directed by Whedon himself,lol.

 

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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I would love to see a re-make of The Running Man. Apart from the premise of a gameshow where people get killed, the film was completely different to the original novel (Ben Richards was supposed to be scrawny and underfed, yet Arnold Schwarzenegger was cast in the role?!)

I doubt it will ever happen though, because of how the book ends.

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I loved the running man (book). I agree when one reads the book, the movie is just weird LOL. I would love to see a good adaptation of Neuromancer. It was a great book.  Another SCIFI film that should be remade is Starship Troopers. I love the book and I wish that they could have atleast followed it. I don't think the directors even read the book. They just said hey lets make a movie named after this cool looking book. They probably read the back of the book and just worked from there LOL.

Star Wars being remade is meh. The OOT shows a time when George Lucas was an innovative and proud director. It might be nice for some but I don't know. It would just be weird to see somebody else piloting the millenium falcon. Nobody can be Darth Vader like James Earle Jones. I saw the 97 Lost In Space movie and I liked it but the original was not burned into my mind like Star Wars was. To me ANH and ESB can be regarded as perfect. They stood the test of time. Look at the 1930's Popeye cartoons in Black and White, then look at the 50-60's version in full colour. The 60's version looked way better but Popeye just wasn't the same any more. Plus in some regions or versions Bluto was copyright haxed and they had to change his name to Brutus and make him fat.

I would watch Star Wars remade but I probably wouldn't like it. What I would like to see is animations with the original cast going on new adventures. See that millennium falcon blasting through the deep reaches of space.

I have actually thought of doing a Star Wars cartoon with completely new characters in the style of Titan A.E (No plans anytime soon I might just be fanticizing but nonetheless). It would be amazing to see atleast for me. Of course I would have to do it Non-Profit because GL or LF would say NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! in the darth vader voice.

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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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.

 

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dark_jedi said:

Hellraiser is being remade.

I indicated my awareness of that in my post, though it does seem to be stuck in production (ahem) Hell at the moment.

I'm not convinced that the remake will be the kind of remake the material needs and deserves but who knows? I'm prepared to wait and see.

 

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did you see the first pics of what Pinhead was going to look like? damn I hope they re do that,he looked TERRIBLE. The original Pinhead is bad ass!

 

Doug Bradley's Pinhead looks so much better,at least to me.

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Clearly this isn't the direction I was hoping for because in the novella the Cenobite with pins is much more a twisted object of beauty.

The grid is a delicate tattoo the pins are bejeweled and the Cenobite is androgynous.

The thing in that picture looks more brutal and ugly than disturbingly elegant (he looks like a victim from any torture porn movie of the last five or six years).

Really a step in the wrong direction as far as I'm concerned.

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Bingowings said:

Clearly this isn't the direction I was hoping for because in the novella the Cenobite with pins is much more a twisted object of beauty.

The grid is a delicate tattoo the pins are bejeweled and the Cenobite is androgynous.

The thing in that picture looks more brutal and ugly than disturbingly elegant (he looks like a victim from any torture porn movie of the last five or six years).

Really a step in the wrong direction as far as I'm concerned.

 

I agree.

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Looks like we can both breath a sigh of relief.

The Pinhead design isn't real- it was fan-made by Gary Tunnicliffe who has done the make-up effects for the later Hellraiser sequels.

It's his version of how he would like Pinhead to be if he was able to design him for the remake.

It has nothing to do whatsoever regarding the real remake.

So fingers are still crossed.

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Bingowings said:

Looks like we can both breath a sigh of relief.

The Pinhead design isn't real- it was fan-made by Gary Tunnicliffe who has done the make-up effects for the later Hellraiser sequels.

It's his version of how he would like Pinhead to be if he was able to design him for the remake.

It has nothing to do whatsoever regarding the real remake.

So fingers are still crossed.

Now that is some good news indeed,my fingers are crossed to.

 

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EyeShotFirst said:

Star Wars being remade is meh. The OOT shows a time when George Lucas was an innovative and proud director. It might be nice for some but I don't know...

 

I suppose you missed my subtle hints of a SW remake being a bit like waving a slab of raw meat in front of a rampaging lion, then chucking it as far from yourself as humanly possible. All about diverting focus.

If those three films were remade, I'd go see them in the theater for the sake of curiousity. I really think it would be a win win situation for SW fans of every type. George could even change the stories as much as he wished in order to "improve them". Ultimately, the originals would still exist, and I could walk away content if they such, and slightly excited if they turn out to be good.

 

Oh, another film I'd really like to see remade is Daredevil. I think DD is way under rated as a comic book hero. He has always been one of my favorites, and I was excited when I heard they were making a Daredevil movie. I was hoping it would be on par with Spider-Man, but instead it was... unspeakably awful...

Since they have already remade the Hulk (into, from what I understand, another pretty horrible film), I'd really like to see them take DD and restart from scratch without the over the top corniness.

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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.

100% agreed.  I, for one, think Dune could be made into a single 3 and a half hour film, but I don't think any studio would be willing to take the risk on that.

I have a devious scheme to save enough money over the course of my life and build up enough contacts in my (future) career as a film editor to finance an epic, roadshow-style (shot on 70mm - I would choose IMAX but I prefer the 2.20:1 AR over 1.44:1 - with an overture, intermission, exit music, and at the aforementioned 3.5 hours in length) version of Dune from a script that I've begun working on and will continue to until I'm 100% satisfied with it.

It also will actually be shot in the desert, unlike the Sci-Fi miniseries.  It got the story (mostly) right, but the cheap costumes, sets, Fremen eye makeup and the incredibly obvious matte-painting desert ruined it for me.

I wouldn't have a hell of a lot of interest in anything beyond Dune Messiah though - it was OK, but I didn't like Children of Dune that much and don't have any interest in reading the three novels beyond that.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that's just a pipe dream that will never happen.  And even if it did, I doubt I'd ever find a way of distributing it properly.  Plus there's the whole rights issue.

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C3PX said:
EyeShotFirst said:

Star Wars being remade is meh. The OOT shows a time when George Lucas was an innovative and proud director. It might be nice for some but I don't know...

 

I suppose you missed my subtle hints of a SW remake being a bit like waving a slab of raw meat in front of a rampaging lion, then chucking it as far from yourself as humanly possible. All about diverting focus.

If those three films were remade, I'd go see them in the theater for the sake of curiousity. I really think it would be a win win situation for SW fans of every type. George could even change the stories as much as he wished in order to "improve them". Ultimately, the originals would still exist, and I could walk away content if they such, and slightly excited if they turn out to be good.

 

Oh, another film I'd really like to see remade is Daredevil. I think DD is way under rated as a comic book hero. He has always been one of my favorites, and I was excited when I heard they were making a Daredevil movie. I was hoping it would be on par with Spider-Man, but instead it was... unspeakably awful...

Since they have already remade the Hulk (into, from what I understand, another pretty horrible film), I'd really like to see them take DD and restart from scratch without the over the top corniness.

I've heard the Director's Cut of Daredevil is above and beyond higher quality compared to the Theatrical version. But I wouldn't know since I've never seen the Director's Cut yet.

 

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DarkGryphon2048 said:

I've heard the Director's Cut of Daredevil is above and beyond higher quality compared to the Theatrical version. But I wouldn't know since I've never seen the Director's Cut yet.

The director's cut is a complete and total master piece compared to the awfulness that is the theatrical. But by its own merits, it is still a dog of a film. It does successfully remove a few of the problems of the theatrical version, but still holds onto many. The bottom line is, that movie absolutely sucked.

 

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Oh for fuck sake why cant we just leave some movies alone...... To me, sequels will always be more acceptable than just "rebooting" a franchise, it completely devalues movies these days, there could always be that idea lingering that "we can just remake it" and it's turning hollywood into a giant clusterfuck, excuse me, a bigger clusterfuck than it has to be.

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C3PX said:
EyeShotFirst said:

Star Wars being remade is meh. The OOT shows a time when George Lucas was an innovative and proud director. It might be nice for some but I don't know...

 

I suppose you missed my subtle hints of a SW remake being a bit like waving a slab of raw meat in front of a rampaging lion, then chucking it as far from yourself as humanly possible. All about diverting focus.

If those three films were remade, I'd go see them in the theater for the sake of curiousity. I really think it would be a win win situation for SW fans of every type. George could even change the stories as much as he wished in order to "improve them". Ultimately, the originals would still exist, and I could walk away content if they such, and slightly excited if they turn out to be good.

I don't know.  In theory it sounds like a good idea, but this is George Lucas we're talking about here.  I wouldn't put it past him to remake the films, call those the real versions, and never allow the original films to be released again. 

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DarkGryphon2048 said:

I've heard the Director's Cut of Daredevil is above and beyond higher quality compared to the Theatrical version. But I wouldn't know since I've never seen the Director's Cut yet.

The director's cut is a complete and total master piece compared to the awfulness that is the theatrical. But by its own merits, it is still a dog of a film. It does successfully remove a few of the problems of the theatrical version, but still holds onto many. The bottom line is, that movie absolutely sucked.

 

Awhile ago I checked Netflix and they don't carry the Director's Cut. Oh well. Perhaps Marvel will remake the film in a few years?

 

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Honestly, I really don't see that any different than now. 

Only instead of classic films covered in shit, we have pure shit. I don't know about you, but I really like things to act like what they are. I get a cat, I want it to act like a cat. Dumb thing goes and starts acting like a dog, I am tossing it out. The SE is a confusing mess, is it an old film, is it a new film, complete mess. 

I don't think a remade sequel trilogy would have any adverse bearings on an eventual restoration of the original trilogy. It would be a bit like euthanasia for the poor old trilogy. Right now the things looks like crap, tubes coming out of every hole, hook up to life support. Nobody even really cares about it anymore. It has worn out its welcome for most people. The poor movies define dead horse beatings. It feels like the decent thing to do, to retire the poor things. Let the sleeping dog die. Burry the bloody horse corps. These movies deserve to be setting on everybodies DVD shelf, not under going cosmetic surgery every few years and having the little good that remains in them squeezed out for a profit.

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LordVader said:

Oh for fuck sake why cant we just leave some movies alone...... To me, sequels will always be more acceptable than just "rebooting" a franchise, it completely devalues movies these days, there could always be that idea lingering that "we can just remake it" and it's turning hollywood into a giant clusterfuck, excuse me, a bigger clusterfuck than it has to be.

While I agree with you on general principle, there have been cases of remakes actually being (arguably, of course) superior to the original.

The few remakes I feel actually do improve upon the source material:

- The Thing (1982)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - I should note here that I do enjoy the original quite a bit, I just think the Sutherland-starring version is far superior
- Ocean's 11 (2001) - not so much "superior to" as "just as good as"
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

That's all I can think of at the moment.  Then there are the remakes that change enough that they're still good, but not really comparable to the original (such as Seven Samurai vs The Magnificent Seven, or Yojimbo vs Fistful of Dollars).

My point is, while most remakes are unnecessary and utter shit, sometimes they work.