Movies that need to be remade...

[Cosmic Bandito]

I was watching Escape From New York last night on AMC, and during the entire viewing I was thinking, "This movie is a classic, but it could be made so much better now." Also, following Plakespear's lead, new director and your choice of main protagonist.

Thinking Danny Boyle directs and cheesy choice of Vin Diesel as Snake (plays the Anti-hero to the T).

Any others?

[non grata]

nice choice... i'd have to say final countdown would prolly be better the second time around.

i think there should also be a list of movies that shouldn't have been remade.

[Plakespear]

With potential directors

The French Connection ( by Tarantino)
The Excorcist (M. Knight Shymalan)
Downhill Racer (Scott Gaffney)

And perhaps...

The Phantom Menace (Kevin Smith)

[Grange]

Charlie's Angels directed by Ron Jeremy.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Waiting for it to come out, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Johnny Depp

Tim Burton

Also hope that Danny Elfman does the music for it as well.

[half-fast]

soylent green

[dewey]

Truman Show -
I disliked this movie, yet loved the concept. I'd like to see it done better.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Thought of a few more, basically every Michael Crichton book that has been made into a movie.
Some of the books were IMO pretty damn good, but absolute trash on film. the 13th warrior was the only one I thought has held a candle to what the book was.

Sphere
Ed Burns
Forrest Whitaker
Jodie Foster
Vince Vaughn

Direction Can we use dead folks? Would have been great under Kubricks lead.


Logan's Run
Always thought this was a fun movie, and could come around again.

Not really sure as to who to put in this one.


Edit, also interested to see what Peter Jackson does with King Kong.

[Benny Profane]

2001
Dr Strangelove
Eyes Wide Shut
Scanners

Directors? 2001, don't know, Dr Strangelove, a collaboration from Burton and Scorcese, Eyes Wide Shut, Gus Van Zandt, and Scanners, Terry Gilliam.

Have you noticed how movie endings are re-edited for TV? I once stayed up late and almost did an Elvis on my old Sony when they sliced off the sad ending to Brazil to make it somewhat happy. And last week I was watching To Die For (oh, Nicole, have my love child), and they re-edited the whole ending from the version I saw in the cinema. Like T. said last week, I have an IQ of 138, it's been tested.

[CantDog]

Originally posted by Benny Profane
Gus Van Zandt

Benny, did you see elephant? Interesting movie.

there was just a thing on NPR yesterday, a danish(I think) director was remaking his movie The Perfect Man(or something similar). His name was Leaf,leff,something l and f. I'm bad at remembering things I hear on the radio. Anyway another director challenged him to remake the movie using 5 obstructions, so the short film is remade as a cartoon, using only short scenes, and three other things I cant remember as well. Luckily I do remember the movie, "5 Obstructions" sounds interesting though.

Ok, here is the info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354575/

[Arty50]

Originally posted by CaddyDaddy77
Waiting for it to come out, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Johnny Depp

Tim Burton

Also hope that Danny Elfman does the music for it as well.

Actually I'm gonna disagree with you on this one. While I'm sure Johnny Depp will be absolutely brilliant, I just can't see anyone topping Gene Wilder's performance. He was perfect, and I don't mean that in the over used sense of the word. I just can't see it being done any better.

That said, I would kill to see these guys make "the Great Glass Elevator." That book is begging to be made into a movie and this crew would definitely do it justice. Plus they wouldn't just be recycling old fare, which is really starting to piss me off.

[Plakespear]

Arty, I read in an interview with Johnny Depp that he would only do Willy Wonka if he could come up with a different, but equally effective, performance as Gene Wilder. I think your idea of a Burton/Depp version of "Elevator" is spot on, though.

[CaddyDaddy77]

Originally posted by Plakespear
Arty, I read in an interview with Johnny Depp that he would only do Willy Wonka if he could come up with a different, but equally effective, performance as Gene Wilder. I think your idea of a Burton/Depp version of "Elevator" is spot on, though.

Read that same thing too. Depp seemed to be pretty hesitant to do something that would be in the same type, that the original movie was cast in. I put quite a bit of faith into Burton's ability to make it a very different movie. What he did in Sleepy Hallow for example is what I would expect.

I really like the idea of re-making Galss Elavator, and as mentioned it would get rid of all of the mentioned problems, and is a great book to boot.


Another one I'm riding the fence on is Dune. I really like dthe original, and loved the books, but would have liked someone to pick up where Dune left off. There was a mini-series on Sci-fi, Children of Dune, which IMO didn't hold a candle to the original. I'm not quite sure of the remake of Dune, but pursueing the series would be interesting.

[Plakespear]

Here's some more:

Soderbergh remakes the Maltese Falcon with Geroge Clooney as Sam Spade.

Baz Luhrman's vision of The Wizard of Oz

Tarantino rewrites and directs Sunset Blvd.

John Woo remakes the Seven Samurai.

[Benny Profane]

Originally posted by Plakespear



John Woo remakes the Seven Samurai.

hmmmm...that would be an interesting casting project.

[dewey]

How about tim burton re-does ghostbusters?

Or Di Palma does Top Gun.

Scorcese does ET - all voice-over style like Goodfellas - "ET was the alien, he was always curing shit with his fingertips".... over panning shot through crowded Halloween party....

[noodles]

Originally posted by Benny Profane
2001
Dr Strangelove
Eyes Wide Shut
Scanners

Directors? 2001, don't know, Dr Strangelove, a collaboration from Burton and Scorcese, Eyes Wide Shut, Gus Van Zandt, and Scanners, Terry Gilliam.

Have you noticed how movie endings are re-edited for TV? I once stayed up late and almost did an Elvis on my old Sony when they sliced off the sad ending to Brazil to make it somewhat happy. And last week I was watching To Die For (oh, Nicole, have my love child), and they re-edited the whole ending from the version I saw in the cinema. Like T. said last week, I have an IQ of 138, it's been tested.

What's your beef with Kubric?

In my opnion, remake of Strangelove can be nothing but inferior to the original. I'd love to see it remastered on the big screen, tho.

[Benny Profane]

My beef with Kubrick, who was my favorite director until Eyes Wide Shut, is that, ultimately, he's a very uptight British man of a certain generation, which, during his lifetime, made him somewhat exotic, because he was a "recluse", the auteur of auteurs, doing what he wanted and blowing us all away. But EWS showed us the downside of being alone - he showed us how out of touch he was with modern attitudes about sex.
But I will always treasure the opening credits of that movie, with those shots of Nicole dressing. Yes, there is a God.

Strangelove just needs to be updated, because, after all, the Cold War is over, and we have something a tad different going on right now. 2001, umm, I don't know, how in the hell do you even touch that one....

[Plakespear]

Originally posted by Benny Profane
he's a very uptight British man

Actually, Kubrick's an American, born and raised in NYC. He moved to Europe ans settled in England because of his unhappiness with the American studio system's way of filmmaking.

Eyes Wide Shut was the longest film shoot in modern history- 500+ shooting days (a typical Hollywood film shoots for 60) With that many shooting days, I thought it would be a huge epic like Saving Private Ryan or Ben Hur. That movie could have been shot in 24 days if the director wasn't senile.

[Odin]

dammit plakespear, You just wanted to bump this to prevent my total hold on the Music, Books, Movies section!

[Benny Profane]

Originally posted by Plakespear
Actually, Kubrick's an American, born and raised in NYC.

Oh shit, yeah, sorry, I just think of him as one who retreated to a former world. Jeez, that's weird. A fascinating man whose Bio I'd like to read.

My favorite scenes: The meeting of the American "official" and the Russkies in the space terminal in 2001, the stuff on the spacecraft before HAL gets pissed, and the whole first half of Full Metal Jacket.