# Death at a Funeral (2010) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068 "2009-03-19T20:42:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/1 "2009-03-19T20:42:09Z")
Really? Are we that bereft of new ideas that we need to remake - excuse me, reimagine - **[Death at a Funeral](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795368/)** (2007)? (Pardon me if this post turns out to be a reimagining of someone else’s - I did try to search for it.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/2 "2009-03-19T20:49:43Z")
The difference appears to be that instead of a farce featuring British actors, it’s one featuring African-American actors. ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/3 "2009-03-20T01:27:01Z")
They are also remaking “The bodyguard” (too lazy to find the link). Surely this must be a sign. Tomorrow, for the first time in 15 years, I’ll confess my sins, you never know. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/4 "2009-03-20T02:13:55Z")
They also remade State of Play, coming out this year. The original dates from 2003. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/5 "2009-03-20T06:16:16Z")
I’m pretty well tuned in to pop culture and I watch a lot of movies. I barely remember _Death at a Funeral_ coming out. I maybe saw one or two commercials for it. The only thing I thought when I saw the commercial was “Hey its the guy from MI5.” If done well with a good cast it may reach a wide American audience which the first one did not. It only did $8.5 million in the US. I think there is plenty of audience out there for a new movie. ETA: Looking at the IMDB page for the new one I would say there are some major differences. The new one will be a Chris Rock written comedy with a mostly black cast. (most of the cast is labeled as “rumored”) Rock did the same thing with \*Heaven Can Wait/Here Comes Mr Jordan \*with bad results. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/6 "2009-03-20T06:36:14Z")
I thought the original definitely had its moments but I’m hoping the remake (not that I plan to see it) will cut the shit- literally (if you’ve seen it you know the scene and if you haven’t it’s a spoiler). I don’t see the need for a remake though and while I like Chris Rock as a comic he simply doesn’t make good movies (major scenery chewer). Next up: **Tyler Perry’s THE READER** - Madea’s seduction of a teenager (Chris Brown) causes some stuff to happen, and there’s a Christian moral to it in the end. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-at-a-funeral-2010/490068/7 "2009-03-20T07:15:22Z")
I can’t get too bent out of shape about a remake of Death at a Funeral. It was mildly amusing but nothing to write about so there’s actually a chance to improve upon it. My ire is reserved for [the Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s remake of Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy](http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/nov/07/spielberg-smith-oldboy-remake). Spielberg has some apologizing to do after Indy 4 and ruining a perfectly good movie by sanding off all of the edges isn’t really the way to do it. Sorry for the hijack.