Movies you like to see remakes of....

[ubergreendragon]

Tell me a movie youd like to see a remake of has to be something kinda old 15-20 yrs old or so since the orgional was made
ill go 1st since i started the topic..

Clash of the Titans

[Kommando]

Star Wars - update the whole trilogy thing.  Maybe have Robert Rodriguez direct it.  The great thing is you could use a lot of the same cast from the prequels.  Hayden Christensen could still be Darth Vader, and Obi Wan would be Ewan McGregor, which means their showdown on the Death Star wouldn't look like a Geezer/Cripple fight.  Johnny Depp would be a shoo in for Han Solo, and I'm pretty sure he's shoot first.  Since its Hollywood, you'd have someone like Orlando Bloom cast as Luke, but at least you know he would be good in the saber fights.  Natalie Portman could be brought back as Leia, and then since everyone knows the lines she might have a chance to act.  Ian MacDiamid could reprise his roll as Palpatine, and Temuera Morrison would take up the role as Boba Fett.  Great thing is, you could just recycle the sounds for R2-D2 and C-3P0 so there would be no need to pay them twice.  Maybe get someone like Ian McKellan to play Grand Moff Tarkin.  It would be a fresh approach, and it would make the trilogy knit more closely together.

[Mr. Hamrick]

actually, and this is coming from me as a filmmaker, I think there are too many remakes being done right now.

having said that:

I would love to do a version of the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird".  I loved the classic film.  I've always wanted to do a remake or a version of it on stage or on film.

and while it might be a bit "blasphemous" . . . I would love to do a remake of the old James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart film "Angels with Dirty Faces". 

[GhostMachine]

I would say a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, but Tri-Star already did that back in `98 and called it Godzilla.

I'd like to see a remake of my favorite Hong Kong gun-fu flick, Hard-Boiled, but I can't really think of anyone cool enough to play Inspector Tequila other than Chow Yun Fat, and there would be absolutely no point in even bothering without John Woo directing it. (Hey, if he can `direct' the Strangehold game that's coming out, which is a video game sequel to the movie, then he can certainly direct a remake of the movie)

[BentonGrey]

I uh....I don't think that remakes are almost EVER a good idea.  The only remake I've ever seen that was actually an improvement was Ocean's 11....and...that's pretty much it.  Honestly, it was pretty much a different film with the same title, so it hardly counts.  Well, I guess you could count movies that didn't get the proper budget, that kind of thing.  In that case, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe would count as a remake, and a good one, after those cheap British films from back in the day.  Even movies that are very dated by their special effects, like Dune, are still head and shoulders above remake attempts.  I would rather filmakers take ideas INSPIRED by previous films, like the upcoming "I Am Legend," which is inspired by the book of the same name and Heston's the "Omega Man."  You know what's even worse though?  Movies that CLAIM to be inspired by other movies, but are just rip-offs and remakes, like Superman Returns.

[ow_tiobe_sb]

I'd like to see remakes of Twins, Replicant, and The Second Coming.

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Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

[detourne_me]

its funny,  i was wondering why nobody's ever remade to kill a mockingbird.
like theres been death of a salesman and god knows how many pride and prejudice remakes,   why couldn't the y update to kill a mockingbird.

or i'd love to see a catch-22 remake,  with the guys from office space and maybe even steve carrell. (actually im not even sure if there was an original catch-22 movie)

oh,  and we definitely need more billy jack.

[stumpy]

Some films are good candidates for a remake, but not that often outside the sci-fi or action genres. I mean Peter Jackson did great work with the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and I'd like it if he got a shot at doing The Hobbit but, even though both of those have been done on film in some form or another, I don't see them as remakes. At least that is the sort of film that benefits from advances in cinematography and special effects, like King Kong, which I do think of as a remake and a good one.

The problem I see with remaking other sorts of films is that it's hard to see how they would improve on the originals. I hate it when a classic film is remade and it was no better than the original. It's like the project got green lighted on the notion that people will recognize the name but they'll be too lazy to go out and rent the original. That would be my worry for remakes of films like To Kill A Mockingbird: how would it be any better? It's not a special effects film and I don't see where newer actors are going to bring much to the roles that the originals didn't. I worry about the Psycho problem, where I watched the Anne Heche version and wondered why they bothered. They could have just re-released the original.


BTW,

Johnny Depp would be a shoo in for Han Solo

:blink:

[Mr. Hamrick]

the thing about doing another version of To Kill a Mockingbird is that I would be just as willing to do a stage version as a film version.  I'd actually be more apt to do a stage version.  The biggest thing about doing a new film version would be the improvement in technology that's been made since the film's release in the 60s.  As for attempts to remake the film, there was a 1997 version that was apparently never widely seen and likely for good reasons.  It's more a curiousity for me than a "I have to make this film" type thing.



As for my thoughts on doing Angels with Dirty Faces, I think doing a somewhat modern version of it could be very interesting. 

[BentonGrey]

Hey, Mr. Hammick, have you ever seen the Batman:TAS episode that's an homage to Angels?  It's called "It's Never Too Late."

[Mr. Hamrick]

Hey, Mr. Hammick, have you ever seen the Batman:TAS episode that's an homage to Angels?  It's called "It's Never Too Late."

i don't recall off hand.  But honestly, i've not watched Batman: TAS in years.  I probably have seen it and just don't recall it by episode title. 

[zuludelta]

(actually im not even sure if there was an original catch-22 movie)

I'm pretty sure there was one. Might have had Gene Hackman in it, IIRC (and I'm too lazy to look it up).

My stand on movie remakes is pretty much similar to musicians including cover songs on their albums: I'm okay with them as long as they are a sufficiently unique experience from the original but they don't stray so much from the source material that they become a different thing entirely.

Of the remakes that I can think of off the top of my head, the ones I enjoyed (although not necessarily to the same degree as the originals) was Cape Fear (starring Robert DeNiro), a remake of the 1962 film with Gregory Peck, and 1996's Last Man Standing, a remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo (set in Prohibition-era America instead of feudal Japan).

[BentonGrey]

Yeah, there's an original 22, but I don't think Hackman was in it.

You know ZD, Last Man Standing WAS just like Yojimbo...it didn't occur to me, as I saw YJ after the American version.  However, that's not exactly a remake, the two films are pretty decently different, even having different titles. (Something I can respect)

[zuludelta]

You know ZD, Last Man Standing WAS just like Yojimbo...it didn't occur to me, as I saw YJ after the American version.  However, that's not exactly a remake, the two films are pretty decently different, even having different titles.

Last Man Standing is actually a licensed remake of Yojimbo, if you look at the credits, it lists Ryuzo Kikushima and Akira Kurosawa as responsible for the story.

[GhostMachine]

Catch-22 was made into a movie in 1970, directed by Mike Nichols. No Gene Hackman in it, but it has Alan Arkin, Bob Newhart, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen and Jon Voight in it, amongst others.

(Haven't seen it; just looked it up in an old Leonard Maltin video guide I have lying around)

How was Last Man Standing?

[BentonGrey]

I had no clue ZD, thanks for the correction.  Still, it's different enough not to bother me.  Taking a movie, resetting it in a different time and place (Sons of Katie Elders=Four Brothers) with a different title doesn't bother me at all, because it's not like they're saying "I can do this better," just, "I love this story, and would like to tell a different version of it."

[Mr. Hamrick]

A Fistful of Dollars is a licensed remake as you put it of Yojimbo as well.

The Magnificent Seven was a remake of Seven Samurai.

I am pretty sure if i put some thoughts into it that I could come up with other remakes that you'd probably agree were good movies. 

[thalaw2]

I would like to see a Blade Runner series if not a remake.  The Mack would be a great remake too, look what it did for Shaft. 

[zuludelta]

How was Last Man Standing?

It's an okay film if you judge it based on its own merits and try not to compare it too hard to Yojimbo. It's a throwback to a time when action films were more than just glorified music videos designed for the attention-deficient.

I had no clue ZD, thanks for the correction.

No problem man. I don't think it's common knowledge, and I only picked up the extensive similarities (not knowing myself that it was a remake when I first saw it) because I'd seen Yojimbo a good half-dozen times when I was a kid (we had Kurosawa screenings every summer in my hometown as part of the annual arts festival).   

[detourne_me]

just looking over the list,  its interesting to see how many gregory peck remakes we'd like to see.  the guy was a phenomenal actor.  he just had a great presence,   its like taking the good heartedness of jimmy stewart and adding a heaping of confidence.  something we don't see much in actors now....  except maybe someone like morgan freeman.

on a side note,  i'd like to see a new version of dirty dozen now too.  heh!  or ... umm war wagon?  i think thats what it was called...  was that another Yul brinner western?

[Uncle Yuan]

I think a remake of To Kill a Mockingbird is a really, really bad idea.  We live in a much more cynical time and the movie is really too black and white.  To modernize" it they'd have to imply that Atticus had something to with his wife's death and make Boo Radley a child molester or something.  Not to mention it is slow and all about ideas so they'd have to add a couple of fight scenes or a romantic sub-plot.  Either way my head would explode (presuming I'd ever go see it in the first place).

[Mr. Hamrick]

nah, not thinking about modernizing it at all, Yuan. 

I'd prefer doing the stage play adaptation and then filming that as a limited for sale thing.  Not doing it as a theatrical release.  The idea that I had was taking it and a couple of other theatrical plays and doing some live performances.  Taking the best performance of each run and pressing so many DVDs of the show and having the cast autograph it then selling the Autograph DVDs on my website for a limited time with the proceeds going to charity.  The idea was given to me in part by a theater professor up at North Georgia College and State University a few years ago.  He suggested doing "Inherit The Wind" in the old courthouse in Dahlonega and having the audience in the seating in the courtroom. 

I came up with four plays that I'd like to have as a part of it.  One of them is a one-act, though, I figured that I would need to put two other one acts with it.  The idea overall would be to make five DVDs available.

[UnfluffyBunny]

I would like to see a Blade Runner series if not a remake.

EXACTLY what I was thinking!  :thumbup:

[TheMarvell]

Godzilla. The 1998 movie was a disaster, and hardly at all can be even remotely considered a Godzilla movie of any kind. I'd like a remake of the actual 1954 movie, like what Peter Jackson did with King Kong: keep the time period, but update the visuals (although there's no need to make it 3 hours...). If they had to make it in modern day, at least do it right this time. No hiding behind buildings (or having humans lose him...ugh), no running from missiles, and no dying from a few rockets after getting tangled on a bridge.

[Viking]

I'd be curious to see what might be done as a remake of The Magnificent Seven.  Which, as Mr. Hamrick has already noted, was a remake (or re-envisioning, if you prefer) of the Seven Samurai.

[Mr. Hamrick]

i was pondering it as a crime thriller but that's all I am saying.

[House Quake]

- Fantastic Voyage
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- The Thing
- The Time Machine
- When Worlds Collide
- Forbidden Planet

Just to name a few.  These all were good stories... but with modern SFX ... the visuals can now do them justice.  Also thier stories IMO leaves a little room for something new with out straying to far from what worked.

[Jakew]

Creature From The Black Lagoon remade by Tim Burton, with a R18+ rating would be great.