What movies should Hollywood remake?

[Celtavian]

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The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Clint Eastwood is a very unique actor. I haven't seen a modern day actor who could possibly fill Clint's shoes in either role (in fact any role he has done). Not to mention Sergio Leone's vision in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly would have to be better by a modern director. I don't see that happening. It just can't be done well in the modern day. Westerns are dying as America gets older. Enjoy the classics of the genre.

 

[s/LaSH]

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?

Hey!

I'm not little!

Seriously, just look at any given Renderosity.com gallery to see what most people will do with the stuff, and look at Lucas to see what most people will see being done with the stuff.

Actors, of course, will still exist - plays and stage shows for one, and perhaps more importantly, in movies made by people who don't want to fork out millions of dollars on computers and millions more for the techies to run them, or in movies featuring people who want their appearance to be famous in its own right, not as a puppetmaster for a 1980 Ahnold wireframe or some such. However, they won't remain the be-all and end-all of the screen - I theorise a fall in massive actor paychecks.


Now, back ontopic, imagine what could happen if you got some Hong Kong wuxia maestro to remake an old Keaton film, or some other (unintentionally) hyperkinetic weirdness from Hollywood's distant past. Just grab a 'best-of' roll, and see what you get back.

I think it's a match made in (opium) heaven...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Last Man on Earth

Would like to see Andromeda Strain but figure casting would kill it from being a good movie.

Logans Run (I think is being done) but then that is life in Hollywood, by 30 the cast will be have dead careers. It would be fun to see a lot of Hollywood faces going to Carrousel.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Now, back ontopic, imagine what could happen if you got some Hong Kong wuxia maestro to remake an old Keaton film, or some other (unintentionally) hyperkinetic weirdness from Hollywood's distant past.

Wow! The first time through I read that as King Kong wuxia maestro... Talk about a wierd mental image -- King Kong leaps into the air and delivers a flying kick to the T-Rex....

If I were a Hollywood director, I'd probably start looking for funding right now...

 

[Kesh]

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

Between this film and Scientology, I have no desire to read Hubbard's books anymore.

 

[d4]

(is that the name? is it blasphemy to suggest that a Harryhausen be remade?)

i'd love to see the Harryhausen Sinbad movies redone was wire-fu computer graphics FX-laden modern action movies, but that's just me.

 

[Pielorinho]

If they remake The Outlaw Josey Wales, hopefully they'll subtitle it: Spittin' at Varmints.

Daniel

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Curse/Night of the Demon (a creepy movie in its own right)

Not a bad idea at all. Though I haven't seen it, I don't know how much it's been changed from the original M.R. James story ("Casting the Runes").

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.

Which is why I said a good director. One who'll know that this just isn't enough.

i'd love to see the Harryhausen Sinbad movies redone was wire-fu computer graphics FX-laden modern action movies, but that's just me.

No, it isn't. I wouldn't mind seeing those, either, now that you mention it.

 

[Merlion]

I didnt know there was more than one Doctor Phibes movie.

I would say remakes of it(them) would be nifty, although I think it would loose something without Vincent Price.

Logan's run is being done, which is good.

It'd be interesting to see updates of, say, War of the Worlds, First Men in the Moon, and some of the other Wells/Verne type stories.

 

[Pielorinho]

i'd love to see the Harryhausen Sinbad movies redone was wire-fu computer graphics FX-laden modern action movies, but that's just me.

I dunno: without the very solid special-effects work of those movies, I'm not sure how fun they'd be. Computer graphics might just make them feel very flimsy, if they were the focus. I'd much rather see them redone with the same technology, only with the state of the art in the technology. Use stop-motion animation, in other words; just use modern filming equipment and all the advances in stop-motion that have come about over the last few decades.

That's what they did with Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, and that's why I liked that remake more than most others. (Lord knows it wasn't Keanu Reeve's role)

Daniel