What remakes are in development?

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I was surprised to learn that Roger Corman’s low budget camp horror (pardon the redundancy- Roger Corman is by definition low budget camp horror) movie The Hills Have Eyes (the uplifting and timely story of inbred cannibal hillbillies and the lost kids who love, or at least get eaten by, them) is being remade.

Producers are currently debating Katie Holmes, Kate Hudson and others as the lead character in the big screen remake of I Dream of Jeannie. The Producers (sorta kinda a remake) opens this season.

Does anybody know of any other remakes of older movies or TV shows currently in the works?

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Does The Producers count? It was a movie starring Zero Mostel, but was based on a musical (by Mel Brooks), then became another musical with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, and is now a movie that is scheduled for release this year.

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KONG!
KONG!
KONG!

Opens December 16th.

I love films with giant apes in em.

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I vote for Gwen Stefani!

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Is that correct? I thought the Mel Brooks/Zero Mostel film was the first incarnation of this.

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You have one iteration too many in there – The Producers started out as the movie with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. I’ve never heard of a pre-existing stage musical. For the recent Nathan Lane/Matthew Broderick stage version (soon to be released as a movie) Brooks wrote more songs in addition to the few in the original movie.

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There’s talk of Steve Carrell (sp?) playing Maxwell Smart in an upcoming Get Smart movie.

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Thanks for the correction.

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Yours, Mine and Ours is out:

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

VCNJ~

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I actually liked the first version, except for the fact that Lucille Ball (with her smoke raped frog voice) was in her late 50s playing a pregnant woman! (The real woman was 38 when the book/movie came out, and with her two children by the husband brought the total of kids to 20.)

I’m sure the YM&O remake is brought about by the inexplicable success of another remake, Cheaper by the Dozen. That one majorly irked me because the real story was such a great 1920s period piece.

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How about Miami Vice with Colin Ferrel as Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Tubbs?

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With ICE CUBE?!? In the Cary Grant role? Who are they going to get for Myrna Loy’s part, Beyonce? I think I have to go lie down.

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I can’t find any links at the moment, but I’m seen discussions on other boards about remakes of Robocop and Predator.

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Poseiden - Just in case the original and the recent made for TV remake didn’t satisfy your capsized ocean liner jones.
I’m not sure but Slither looks like a remake of Night of the Creeps.

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All the Kings Men starring Sean Penn, Jude Law, Patricia Clarkson (mmm), and Kate Winslett (again - mmm) opens December 16th. This, by now, has pretty much already been worked (so is no longer in the works).

Miami Vice (Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx) which will be Directed by Michael Mann. I don’t like Miami Vice but Michael Mann has directed some of my favorites (The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider) so I’m curious as to what he has in store.

Charlotte’s Web starring Dakota Fanning, who appears to be the only girl working in Hollywood at the moment, the rest must have taken the last few years off. It also stars Julia Roberts, Oprah, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Robert Redford, Andre Benjamin, Reba McEntire, Cedric the Entertainer. All but Dakota Fanning are voices.

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Saw the trailer, before Wallace & Grommet. Looked gawdawful.

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I guess the *Philadelphia Story * remake with Fifty Cent and Wanda Sykes fell through the tubes.

Speaking of rapping remakes, isn’t Great Gatsby being remade as a rap mogul.

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Oh, is it 3 o’clock already?

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That would be G, which was released earlier this year to mixed reviews.

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I just saw a trailer for a remake of Fun with Dick and Jane, a remake of the 1977 George Segal and ** Jane Fonda** comedy about a down on their luck yuppy couple who turn to armed robbery to make ends meet. The new version stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni.