What movies should Hollywood remake?

[Brother Shatterstone]

The Longest Day. The original WWII film featured the late John Wayne.

Who would you get to play John Wayne?

Note: you’re on very dangerous and blasphemous grounds!

 

[Mog Elffoe]

Anyone involved in remaking Josey Wales or The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly would have to be hunted down and shot on general principle.

Agreed. These movies don't need to be remade, or 're-envisioned' or anything like that. Movies that had great concepts and potential but failed to deliver the first time around are the best candidates for being re-made--like Ocean's Eleven. The original has a great idea, but man it's boring (unless you just want to watch the Rat Pack hanging out.) The remake delivers on the concept where the original didn't (all in my own humble opinion, of course.)

That said, I am looking forward to Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong. The original is probably my favorite movie of all time, but I do get excited just thinking about seeing Kong fighting the T-Rex with today's special effects.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I always would've loved to see a nice big-budget remake of Them or, 20 Million Miles to Earth (is that the name? is it blasphemy to suggest that a Harryhausen be remade?). Come to think of it, a lot of the old 50s and 60s low-budget horror could really be made into decent flicks, with a good director and a more-than-shoestring budget.

Except Robot Monster.

 

[Ghostwind]

Here's one dying for a remake... Forbidden Planet.

 

[Derulbaskul]

Star Wars: Episode I
Star Wars: Episode II
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revolutions

If there was a way to remake Return of the Jedi with the original actors at their original ages, I'd put that on the list too.

I have to agree.

 

[s/LaSH]

If there was a way to remake Return of the Jedi with the original actors at their original ages, I'd put that on the list too.

And you know, if Jar Jar and Gollum have proven anything, it's that soon you'll be able to do this with computers and nobody will notice.

Of course, Lucas will do it first (I'll let the record speak for me on this). But he's been saying for years now that 'real' actors will soon no longer be necessary. Just imagine: 'Marilyn Munroe v.3, $600' in the shop beside 'Ominous Black Cloaks, $50' and 'Dining hall on the Titanic, $199'. The legitimate applications may be outweighed by... less legitimate applications, but it'll be very interesting when that day arrives...

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

The legitimate applications may be outweighed by... less legitimate applications, but it'll be very interesting when that day arrives...

Yeah, they won't have to pay actors anymore. Assuming that's what you mean... that is what you mean, right, you dirty-minded little man?

 

[2d6]

I always would've loved to see a nice big-budget remake of Them or, 20 Million Miles to Earth (is that the name? is it blasphemy to suggest that a Harryhausen be remade?). Come to think of it, a lot of the old 50s and 60s low-budget horror could really be made into decent flicks, with a good director and a more-than-shoestring budget.

Except Robot Monster.

The thing I hate about modern remakes of 50's sci-fi/horror films is that they typically do little more then add buckets of blood and a nude scene while ditching all the things (like story and atmosphere) that made them scary in the first place.

 

[Shadowdancer]

"Battlefield Earth." Except do it as a trilogy, as it should have been originally.

 

[hellbender]

Curse/Night of the Demon (a creepy movie in its own right)
The Devil Rides out
The Wicker Man
Burn, witch, burn! (based on Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife)
I agree on the Phibes movies and the Star Wars 1 & 2

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