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I was reading an article that had Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks trying to get David Twohy to be the director for a remake of Forbidden Planet. Is there anyone that thinks they need to remake this movie because I sure don't.


I'm also not sure what to think about Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong either. I'm sure it will be good my enthusiasm for it is rather underwhelming at this point. I suppose it could be a really cool update of the original but I'm kind of wondering how interested people are going to be in a giant ape these days, even if there are a bunch of dinosaurs to thrown in.


Feel free to comment on the movies I mentioned or suggest your own.

Tsyroc wrote:I was reading an article that had Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks trying to get David Twohy to be the director for a remake of Forbidden Planet. Is there anyone that thinks they need to remake this movie because I sure don't.

I fucking hate Spielberg's films, so no - this is a remake I don't need, nor want.

Of course, if someone else was director then maybe my opinion would change. It's a cool story, and I would like to see it 'modernised' - though the possibility of it being shit might make me reluctant to see it on the big screen.

[EDIT] I just read what you wrote, and it appears Spielberg isn't director anyway. Of course, I don't know who David Twohy is either.

[EDIT2] Same guy who wrote Pitch Black and is now doing Chronicles of Riddick. Not bad.

Wasn't there a planned remake of a relatively recent film?

Dalton wrote:Wasn't there a planned remake of a relatively recent film?

I think there was some big movie from the 80's that someone wanted to remake but I don't recall what it was.

Here it is. They want to remake Back to School with Cedric the Entertainer.

That could be funny but it's definately not necessary.


I remembered the movie I was thinking of. I heard on the radio that they wanted to remake The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler in the Burt Reynolds role. There were some other stars in other parts but that's all I can remember right now.


I realize that Mean Machine was basically a remake of The Longest Yard but the audience of those two movies is quite a bit different. Plus I'm sure it's payback for all of the British stuff we've converted into "American".

Listing those movies which could use remakes would be a rather more compact listing.

There are too few original scripts in Hollywood these days.

Godzilla. It simply didn't need a remake, imo.

I saw Assault On Precinct 13 the other week on TV again and now I recall they're making a remake of that too now. I wouldn't mind, but they're remaking all the damn good films and not leaving them alone and doing the crappy originals instead.

SyntaxVorlon wrote:There are too few original scripts in Hollywood these days.

Oh, there are plenty of original scripts. The problem is that the producers buy the rights and shelve them, oftentimes forever, because while they don't want to take any sort of risk on an untried property, they certainly don't want to take the chance that somebody else will turn that property into a winner. Hollywood buries original material due to executive timidity or gamesmanship. The result is that increasingly there is nothing left to make but remakes —especially since the theory goes "it worked once before, it'll work again".

Hollywood is run by asshats, just ask Harlan Ellison.

If they had half a brain between them, they'd be remaking BAD MOVIES, not fucking with classics.

[Edit: the reason you would remake bad movies would be to take advantage, properly, of a potentially good movie which was crappily excecuted, in case I didn't make that clear.]

Sriad wrote:Hollywood is run by asshats, just ask Harlan Ellison.

If they had half a brain between them, they'd be remaking BAD MOVIES, not fucking with classics.

[Edit: the reason you would remake bad movies would be to take advantage, properly, of a potentially good movie which was crappily excecuted, in case I didn't make that clear.]

Then i nominate Starship Troopers to be remake.

Montcalm wrote:

Sriad wrote:Hollywood is run by asshats, just ask Harlan Ellison.

If they had half a brain between them, they'd be remaking BAD MOVIES, not fucking with classics.

[Edit: the reason you would remake bad movies would be to take advantage, properly, of a potentially good movie which was crappily excecuted, in case I didn't make that clear.]

Then i nominate Starship Troopers to be remake.

They made a sequel which looks to be some damned horror "bugs in the dark when your tech goes to shit" scifi crap. Or just like Pitch Black with the whole "they need the traitor to the Federation" bit on the back. Either way, something I'm not looking forward to. Looked like a "direct-to-DVD" thing since I never even heard about it in theaters, yet there it was in Blockbuster last night.

Now, Wild Things 2 on the other hand, since it looks to be even more sexed up than the original (damn lack of pool scene!) seems "interesting" so to speak...

I understand that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt want one of their new production company's first project to be a remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is a sin in my opinion.

If they want to remake crappy movies, I have a long list that they could work on. Topping it would be such classics as...

Manos, The Hands of Fate
Future War
Space Mutiny
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
The Giant Spider Invasion

...and pretty much any other mst3k movie...except for The Wild Wild World of Batwoman, that one just cannot be saved.

-Damien

Oni Koneko Damien wrote:...and pretty much any other mst3k movie...except for The Wild Wild World of Batwoman, that one just cannot be saved.

-Damien

That sounds like a porno...