Yee Haw! Those of you who remember the original and because of it started playing Car Wars will be happy to know that it looks like Corman’s going ahead with the remake! I hope they keep the hospital scene. 
But - how will they be able to make the movie without the Howard Cosell pastiche?
Well, they could riff on Marv Albert or Dick Vitale. Not quite the same as old Howard, but certainly plenty of fodder for a Roger Corman film.
It’s possible, Tuckerfan. The thing is, however, that Howard was a voice and style instantly recognizable to anyone watching the film. You really didn’t need to be a sports fan to know his cadences, and at least some of his quirks.
I’ve barely got name recognition for the two you’ve just mentioned. Of course I live in a cave - I don’t have cable, and the only TV show I’ve watched with any regularity when I do visit people with cable is Mythbusters. But, I still don’t see any current media figure having the instant recognition that Howard did.
Well, I couldn’t give two shits about sports and I pulled the names of Dick Vitale and Marv Albert out of my ass. Both of them are fairly distinctive individuals, and while many folks may not know them by name, they’ll probably be able to grok who they’re supposed to represent fairly quickly. And if they go with a Marv Albert-type, then there’s all kinds of twisted stuff they can throw in which will get laughs out of folks, even if they don’t have a clue who he is.
Excellent, this is one film I’ve wanted to be remade. Deathrace 2000 was a great idea, but suffered due to the fact that the roads were basically empty except for the racers. With CGI as seen in the Matrix 2 motorcycle chase the film could be much more exciting.
I just hope to Og they keep the hand-grenade line.
Will Stallone make an appearance?
I hope they keep the human sacrifice in, that fan club president.
They better make it as over-the-top, or more so, than the original. If it’s PG I’m skipping it.
Two words:
Rollar-ball
Oh, my sweet Lord. “Roller Ball.” …The remake.
THIS is what I am fearing as I read this thread. If they are as over-the-top as the original, it could fly. But despite loving the original “Roller Ball,” I only managed to get through about 30 minutes of the remake. When my WTF? meter needle pegged, I quit playing it.
I hope for better for this one, as it is really, really, one of my cult favorites, but I truly do fear the worse.
At last, we can finally end minority privilege once and for all. 
Yeah, but this is a Roger Corman Production. Roger “I had this nifty idea of a monster with a solar powered heart for a movie” Corman. There’s no way it can be anything but sheer, over the top, camp. That’s Corman’s style, that’s how he’s been able to make a profit on every movie he’s ever done (nobody else in Hollywood can say that, AFAIK), I can’t see him changing gears now.
Actually, it’s a Paul W.S. Anderson movie.
The same Paul W.S. Anderson who wasted Kurt Russell in the execrable Soldier.
The same Paul W.S. Anderson who pissed all over not one but two franchises in the shoulda-been-a-dream-project Alien vs Predator.
The same Paul W.S. Anderson who somehow managed to make Michelle Rodriguez not the worst thing in Resident Evil.
Lower your expectations. No, lower. Lower. There, that’s good. Now dig a hole, and push them in. Now climb into the hole and stomp on them.
Now see the movie.
That’s what I was just thinking.
As I said before, this is a Roger Corman Production and even in the films that he didn’t direct, his stamp is all over them. Given that the original wasn’t high art by any stretch of the imagination, and you wanted to do a remake of the original that captured the feel of the original (and on a budget about the same size as the original), who are you going to hire? Are you going to get Ridley Scott? No, of course not. You’re going to get some hack who works cheap and can bang out the movie in no time (remember that one of Corman’s gigs was to see how short he could film a movie, last time I checked he was the world record holder in that regard). It could be worse, after all, he could have hired Verhoeven! :eek:
Verhoeven’s James Cameron compared to Paul W.S. Anderson
I think it’s a great idea in theory, but the director worries me and I hope they don’t pussify it into some PG13 thing starring Will Smith.
And they’ve GOT to keep the hospital scene.
Well, then, there’s no danger of him trying to do “high art” with it, then, is there?