Remakes you'd actually LIKE to see

[DaForce]

I figured that since Hollywood is hellbent on remaking every movie from the last 30 years (Superman Returns, being the latest (yes, yes, I kid..well, maybe just a little)), what remakes would you actually like to see get remade?

I would like to see a remake of Cannonball Run, but only if they can make it cheesier AND only if they can get Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, and Jackie Chan back to reprise their roles.

I would also like to see a capable remake of Logan's Run, but have it actually follow the story set in the books this time around. This I would only want to see if Bryan Singer is NOT anywhere near this project.

There you go, have at it.

[Intelligent_Design]

Flash Gordon
Spawn (The comic book spawn not that other crap)
Swamp Thing
Clash of the titans
Legend
Max headroom
Hard to Hold
deathrace 3000
basket case
The gate
zardoz
Dune
Body Double
The Thing
Ben
A Better Tomorrow
Akira
The Hand
The Creeping Flesh
Cat People
Time After Time
A Clockwork Orange

I think thats it.

[Deacon]

"Journey to the Centre of the Earth". I know they're doing something with Brendan Fraser - apparently for IMAX - but it sounds kinda cheesy. I'd like to see a really big-budget take on it. As long as it wasn't too CGI-centric.

[kah]

TV Remakes of JCE= 93 (http://imdb.com/title/tt0107279/) and 99 (http://imdb.com/title/tt0200755/) I think 99 was ok, but the original was still my favorite.

I thought I wanted to see a new Around the World in 80 Days until Jackie Chan did it. I still haven't seen it.

I agree on the Cannonball Run.

There are not a lot of old big budget films I would want redone. I like the way they used to do movies, with big sets and lots of extras. I'd be afraid of what they would do with Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, or Spartacus. However, I would maybe like to see some character driven movies redone, like the Thin Man Series, a new Road series, with actors we actually like together (ahem, unlike the stupid Chris Farley/David Spade movies), Saturday Night Fever, Robinson Crusoe... etc.

For the most part, I wouldn't really like to see any of the old flicks remade, or more sequels. I have so much more respect for the cinematography and acting of the past, that I wouldn't want to see some new actors/directors destroy a popular story.

I'd rather the theaters spend the money to restore old films, and put them in the theaters for a run, than make a sequel and destroy cinema history.

[Intelligent_Design]

also there is a Death Race 3000 movie planned With Tom Cruise? (http://imdb.com/title/tt0452608/) That will be interesting.

[sickness]

No More Remakes, Dammit!!! I Wanna See New Material!!!!

[conman]

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" would remake well in today's age obsessed botox-world.

[neglet]

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" would remake well in today's age obsessed botox-world.

Yeah, except it would have to star Jessica Alba and Jessica Simpson, since you couldn't have two 50-plus actresses headline a movie. :ohwell:

[DaForce]

Yeah, except it would have to star Jessica Alba and Jessica Simpson, since you couldn't have two 50-plus actresses headline a movie. :ohwell:


Maybe Meg Ryan and Kristie "Dear Lord, WTF Happened" Alley could star in it.

[Nostromo]

"The First Men in the Moon"
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http://www.scifimovies.com/movies/mov0206.shtml

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

The Wizard of Oz
2001: A Space Oddysey

These two films stand alone, and don't need remakes, per se, but I would like to see them remade using the more advanced technology we have today. I wouldn't change anything else, except I would change the ending to 2001 to be more in line with Clarke's book.

Another film that I suspect Spielberg would want to remake is Jaws, due to the problems they had with the mechanical shark at the time.

[Bill_the_Pony]

I would like to see Oz made NOT as a musical, but closer to the actual story, which had some very morbid and dark moments in it, as well as enchanting and mysterious. LOTS of material to mine in all of Baum's books. (The movie Return to Oz in the 80's was on the right track, if ultimately lackluster)

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

I would like to see Oz made NOT as a musical, but closer to the actual story, which had some very morbid and dark moments in it, as well as enchanting and mysterious. LOTS of material to mine in all of Baum's books. (The movie Return to Oz in the 80's was on the right track, if ultimately lackluster)

There were a whole bunch of cool Oz stories. They could make those into features.

[TrekSucksHard]

Flash Gordon
Spawn (The comic book spawn not that other crap)
Swamp Thing
Clash of the titans
Legend
Max headroom
Hard to Hold
deathrace 3000
basket case
The gate
zardoz
Dune
Body Double
The Thing
Ben
A Better Tomorrow
Akira
The Hand
The Creeping Flesh
Cat People
Time After Time
A Clockwork Orange

I think thats it.


Good list- though I think Hard to Hold should be buried and forgotten.

*Walks Away thinking of his own list to do*

[DaForce]

I wanna see Superman Returns remade.


And as an exciting, well-made movie this time around.

[TrekSucksHard]

Here's My List:

Soylent Green
Rollerball (keep it as close to the James Caan original please, not the Mctiernan BS)
Starship Toopers (closer to the book, please)
I Walked With a Zombie
Yojimbo
The Bank Dick
The Third Man
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Silent Running
Little Ceasar
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Go Tell The Spartans
The Eiger Sanction

[kah]

Here's My List:

Soylent Green
Rollerball (keep it as close to the James Caan original please, not the Mctiernan BS)
Starship Toopers (closer to the book, please)
I Walked With a Zombie
Yojimbo
The Bank Dick
The Third Man
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Silent Running
Little Ceasar
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Go Tell The Spartans
The Eiger Sanction

You can only remake the Bank Dick if we can bring back W.C. Fields from the dead.

[Nostromo]

I'd like to see them make the last one or two books in the 2001 series. But since 2010 was a bomb I doubt it will ever happen. :(

Actually - those are good picks for movies. 2010 was a dud but
"2061" and "3001 The Final Odyssey" are superior works and with a good
screen treatment would make great cinema. N

[Sgt. Awesome]

I must say... I disagree with a lot of your old classic choices, particularly the maltese falcon. I love that movie an if I could do anything to change it or make it better, I wouldn't.

I'd like to see Planet of the Apes remade... but like... the original script, not that actual remake crap.

I'd also like to see Hang 'em High remade... because that movie blows... but has so much potential... seeing as it's a Clint Eastwood western.

[Intelligent_Design]

I'd like to see Planet of the Apes remade... but like... the original script, not that actual remake crap.




I never read the original script but the Book kicked ass. Some of the concepts may be to highbrow for today's viewing public though.

[TrekSucksHard]

I must say... I disagree with a lot of your old classic choices, particularly the maltese falcon. I love that movie an if I could do anything to change it or make it better, I wouldn't.

I can't even watch those old Bogart movies anymore- the B&W is so drab and everyone delivers their lines in a monotone voice like robots... we need a remake!

[Bill_the_Pony]

It would probably suck. :smirks:

[Sgt. Awesome]

Exactly! Those drab monotone voices are part of the wonder of the film. I mean... the plot isn't THAT great.

And if they remade it... and it sucked (which is a high probability with remakes these days) there would be hell to pay.

See... modern hollywood isn't a sophisticated beast. If they remade that movie, there would need to be fight scenes, gun battles, explotions. It's a detective movie where everyone carries a piece, that's what would happen. It's FILM NOIR, noir being the french word for black. Black being one half of black and white.

[TrekSucksHard]

Just because its a remake doesn't automatically mean it would suck. If you could imagine Chris Nolan or Quentin Tarantino remaking the Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep that would be cool- just don't consider Michael Bay or John McTiernan and you'll be fine. http://messageboard.cinescape.com/cinescape/forums/images/icons/SmileyWink.gif

[Nostromo]

Did John McTiernan do Die Hard?


Indeed. You go to the head of the class. N:wink:

[Al-Dog]

I’d like to see a remake of a movie that had potential, an interesting concept or idea that wasn’t executed properly. For example, I’d love to see Wild Wild West with Hugh Jackman instead of Will Smith. Or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy directed by Terry Gilliam.

[gerber]

Masters of the Universe

[rappites]

Meatballs

[tstone]

WHAT? Meatballs RULED!

Now, as much as I enjoyed Hitchhikers, a Terry Gilliam helmed version, thats geek-gasmic.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

[Lavoruis]

WHAT? Meatballs RULED!

Now, as much as I enjoyed Hitchhikers, a Terry Gilliam helmed version, thats geek-gasmic.

I'd buy that for a dollar.
Let him do doctor who:D

[Corporal_Hicks]

Remakes I'd like to see?

- The Phantom Menace
- Attack of the Clones
- Revenge of the Sith

[tstone]

Let him do doctor who:D


Oooooo...a Gilliam Doctor Who film? Ohhhhh man, that would be SO cool.

[Asonokirk V 2.0]

Remakes I'd like to see?

- The Phantom Menace
- Attack of the Clones
- Revenge of the Sith

Sadly, you will be seeing these, as in "Director's Cut," "Special Edition," "Enhanced Versions," ad nauseum . . .

[fastcar]

North by Northwest



9 to 5 (Felicity Huffman could play Lily Tomlin's Violet. Yet, somehow I could see this done as an episode of Desperate Housewives with Huffman, Marcia Cross playing Judy (Fonda's role), and Nicolette Sheridan playing Doralee (Parton's role))

[jayce78]

What a great thread . . . .

A book to screen version of 'the Time Machine'

Dracula

Planet of the apes(Original scripment)

Aliens vs Predator

Robocop

007:Moonraker

Hulk

Spider-man I & II( yes the movies are pretty good , but James Cameron could make a hell'ava lot better ones.

Spawn

Highlander: Endgame( And this time finish the production!)

The last 4 bond fims :lol:

Star Wars I:the Phantom Meace

Predator II

War of the Worlds( Big screen Book version)

Batman Returns

The invisible man

X-the man with the X-ray eyes

FireFox

Superman 3(I grew up with this movie / but I'd love to see a good remake!)

X-files: the movie

Startrek: # 5/6/7/9/10

007:From Russia with Love(would'nt that be great!)

Godzillia

Terminator 3

[jayce78]

Sadly, you will be seeing these, as in "Director's Cut," "Special Edition," "Enhanced Versions," ad nauseum . . .


And thats a bad thing , look at Ridley's K.O.H. / what a difference that makes!

[jayce78]

Oooooo...a Gilliam Doctor Who film? Ohhhhh man, that would be SO cool.



Yes , I'd but that for a dolar too! And I'm really cheap . . .

[Al-Dog]

The man from UNCLE

I thought that a movie based on the sixties television show; the man from UNCLE would have been interesting. An updated story about an international spy agency dealing with terrorism and all the other crap going on today could have had potential. I’d cast George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

To bad, it looks like the usual legal difficulties have gotten in the way.

[kah]

I read a lot of the Man from UNCLE books when I was a kid. (Dad's old paperbacks) I LOVED them. We were just talking about that the other day. I told him I'd like to see a movie series, and he said we already had the tv series, and that's likely all we'll get.

[Al-Dog]

I used to watch the series as a kid also. They were talking about a movie last year, so maybe there is still a chance.

[kah]

That would be awesome!

[Al-Dog]

Here are a couple of links from last year.

http://www.robertvaughn.com/hollywoodreporter.html

http://www.themovieblog.com/archives/2005/03/man_from_uncle_production_in_difficulties.html

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/597/597505p1.html

[lauree]

Dune

[Intelligent_Design]

Dune

Post number 1 and you are my Favs!!!!

[Rowanberry]

Dune
Yes, it would be great if someone finally did a proper version. The 1984 movie was so bad that it's hilarious; the miniseries was OK, but quite a few actors in it were miscast.

[kawaiidragonfoe821]

Thats the problem is they never take the original script into context when they deside to remake a movie. the only remake that was any good was Tom Savini's verson of night of the living dead IMO.

[Nostromo]

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ...
The movie / pilot was so so ... but it was a great TV series. Good story and cast would play well on the big screen. :) N

[jayce78]

I'd like to see a more book to screen version of the time machine. . .

[Nostromo]

and the Time Tunnel.
N

[jayce78]

I would like to see big screen book version of 'War of the Worlds' . . .

[awakenangel]

the should remake kiss meet the phatom of the park:rolleyes: better yet do a psyco circus adaptation.
them
zorro the gay blade
count yorgo
the 5 deadly venoms:wink:

[inca]

I'm eager :jump2: to see forecoming Westworld:

http://messageboard.cinescape.com/cinescape/forums/showthread.php?t=1994

[KingVoyeur]

Peter Jackson's doing another remake:

Peter Jackson to remake "The Dam Busters" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5301998.stm)

PJ doing a WWII movie sounds interesting, especially since a lot of information regarding dam busting was classified when then original film was made. Thank God Gibson's not doing this one anymore!

Personally, I'd like to see a remake of "Arsenic and Old Lace." It's in my top 3 screwball comedies ever. For those who haven't seen it, it's about theater critic Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) who goes to visit his 2 elderly aunts on the day he gets married. While there, he discovers that the two lovable old ladies have been poisoning lonely elderly gentlemen who come to rent a room in the house, then burying them in the basement, seeing it as mercy killings. Also living with in the house is Mortimer's uncle who believes himself to be President Teddy Roosevelt (always blowing a bugle, charging up stairs, and believing the bodies in the basement to be yellow fever victims). On top of that, his psychotic and homicidal older brother (Boris Karloff), who has recently escaped a mental institution, arrives with his plastic surgeon (Peter Lorre) and a dead body in tow. Hilarity ensues.

After doing some thinking, I'm still not quite sure who I'd like to see in it, but I think Betty White would be great as one of the aunts. Ryan Reynolds might make a good Mortimer, Robin Williams would probably be good as Teddy, and Steve Buscemi would work in the Peter Lorre role. Not sure about the other aunt, perhaps Cloris Leachman, Judi Dench or Dianne Wiest. The Karloff role is harder to fill since in the original play and film, Karloff's character is said in the police report to resemble Karloff, so the role was made for him. You'd need someone who could carry Karloff's menace and looked quite a bit like him. Jim Carey maybe, or Paul Bettany or Crispin Glover. I think a remake could work if they kept up the pacing of the original and paid attention to detail.

[kah]

NO!!! Leave A&OL alone, you bastard!

NO MORE REMAKES!

[cmitchell]

Anyone remember the T.V. show V? I'd love to remake that with more darker and edgier dialogue and content. I loved the fact that people had to show their blood color to prove what species they were.

[colmatrix]

I think it would be nice to start seeing movies that weren't that bad... redone BETTER than they were originally. Enough making crappy remakes out of classics. Maybe something like Condor-man (my childhood favorite) or The Gate.

[kah]

The tv show Alien Nation.

[sickness]

Do you mean as a movie or a TV show, Kah? Because if you mean movie I'd have to give the idea a thumbs down since the show was spun off of a kickass movie as it was.

[kah]

Do you mean as a movie or a TV show, Kah? Because if you mean movie I'd have to give the idea a thumbs down since the show was spun off of a kickass movie as it was.

No, as a show. I liked it as a show, but it could be way better now.

[sickness]

Well, I thought it was a kickass show, too. Not really much reason to re-tread it. Then again, I find myself more and more against the idea of retreading anything in any medium these days.

[kah]

I agree.

[Sgt. Awesome]

I saw that original Dam Busters movie a few weeks ago... A moden remake, espeically a PJ remake would be very cool.

[cinemafan]

also there is a Death Race 3000 movie planned With Tom Cruise? (http://imdb.com/title/tt0452608/) That will be interesting.

It's set to be released in 2008 and is just another vehicle where we can see Tom Run...lol. I'm not sure where I read that or heard that. But you look at all this movies right from back when he was a kid - and he's definitely perfected his run scenes. Is there any movie that you don't see him run in? Born on the 4th of July maybe?

Anyway this is being produced by his company so it will definitely be a no holds barred action movie set in 2010.

[Al-Dog]

Death Wish - with William H Macy

[McJester]

My ultimate choice would have to be Resident Evil. If they made it almost exaclty the way the game play went... As far as story, timing, creatures... ect. ect. I think it would blow horror movies out of the water... not to mention that piece of shit movie they made off of it! Oh and a sequal popped out of it... what a crock of shit!

Someone said Predator 2, I love that idea... better directing and a faster pace of action... that movie would do well. Predator in the city, how can you fuck that up!

Dracula would be cool... Maybe Frankenstien... or The Invisible Man.
Oh! The Creature from the Black Lagoon!!!

Godzilla would be nice! None of this mommy protecting her babies bull shit!

Deep Blue Sea, lets get a better movie outta this shark escapade.

I think alot of horror movies would be fun to see remade, like Nightmare on Elm Street... with just a whole new look but same story line.

[sickness]

Deep Blue Sea?

They ate me! A muthaf***ing shark ate me!!!

[KingVoyeur]

Dracula would be cool... Maybe Frankenstien... or The Invisible Man.
Oh! The Creature from the Black Lagoon!!!

They actually approached Peter Jackson about doing a Creature remake, but he went with his original King Kong idea. This of course was back in 96 when the studio wisely pulled the plug on that Kong idea considering the Godzilla and Mighty Joe Young remakes were both being released that year. Then, Kong would've sunk and we wouldn't have had LOTR and the recent Kong. Still, I'd actually like to see PJ (or someone equally qualified) to get around to a Creature remake, always one of my favorite Universal monsters.

I'd like to see screwball comedies make a comeback. Something like Bringing Up Baby or My Man Godfrey. No teenagers though, more mature actors and actressess to give the films some diginity. I could see something with Rachel McAdams in it.

[sasquatchb]

Nightbreed.

[McJester]

NIGHTBREED, That was an unusual movie... I love Danny Elfman's score for it. I'd see it remade.

If Peter Jackson did Creature... would it be 3 and half hours long? would it need to be? at least we would be able to count on great cg affects and a well made version.