# Episodes or movies you want to see redone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 23, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383 "2025-04-23T02:45:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/21 "2025-04-24T16:10:28Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I actually like _Black Sunday_, though it really could be remade without a lot of changes. But alas, they would change it, and make it “relevant”, and “edgy”. I envision it as set in the 70s, as written. Sort of a period piece. But the Mossad agent character, played by Shaw, bore little resemblance to the book. Physically, I imagine him looking a bit like a young Tom Jones. Dern played the pilot much too manically. I envision him as the classic “kept to himself” type that nobody really suspected. Much more quiet, calculating in a sinister way. And we should see some of the events that damaged him so much (bad childhood experiences, Vietnam POW). The Harry Potter people were smart - they followed the books closely. I wish that was done more often, though I understand why some deviations are necessary. But a book like Black Sunday needn’t be modified much, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/22 "2025-04-24T16:53:50Z")
The _Bourne Supremacy_ and _The Bourne Ultimatum_ without the Shaky-Cam, please. No need to redo the movies, just use AI or CGI to remove most of the shake from the existing movies. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/23 "2025-04-24T19:33:40Z")
> [@Chad\_Sudan](#): > > **[Idiocracy](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)** (2006) should be remade. At a minimum, the grating voiceover narration should be taken out. This movie captured our present plight! Done properly, it could have been a cultural touchstone. They wouldn’t have to put the guy in suspended animation for a whole 500 years. Set the start of the remake in 2006, and have him wake up after 20 years. The premise would work just fine. Ooh, I got one-- remake 'It’s a Wonderful Life", but without the Heaven / angel stuff. Make it a hard sci-fi about quantum uncertainty and the Butterfly Effect. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/24 "2025-04-24T20:27:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Make it a hard sci-fi about quantum uncertainty and the Butterfly Effect. And he doesn’t get back at the end. (and I’m the one always complaining that they just _have_ to make everything “dark”.) Wouldn’t that be a little like _Sliding Doors_? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/25 "2025-04-25T01:02:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Wouldn’t that be a little like _Sliding Doors_? Maybe? Never saw it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/26 "2025-04-25T01:37:07Z")
But what if you _had?_ ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/27 "2025-04-25T02:17:29Z")
I smiled. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/28 "2025-04-25T13:24:53Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > Wouldn’t that be a little like _Sliding Doors_? > > Maybe? Never saw it. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > But what if you _had?_ I did the complicated quantum calculations overnight. It turns out the box office returns for the studio to justify greenlighting a “Sliding Doors 2” were short by only 2 sold tickets. So in the universe where I saw the movie in the theater and took a date, SD2 went into production, bombed, and sent Paltrow’s career off the rails. She never won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare in Love’, never appeared in any Marvel movies, and was not able to found Goop, depriving the world of products like candles scented like her vagina. So, to everybody in this quantum universe, I apologize for not having seen the movie 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Eclipse\_Chaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Eclipse\_Chaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eclipse_Chaser)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/29 "2025-04-26T17:00:25Z")
The “Jump the Shark” episode of X-files. It felt like a betrayal when they killed off the Lone Gunmen. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/30 "2025-04-26T19:16:12Z")
The **Firefly** movie. Not _just_ because they killed off some of our favorite characters, but because the plot was so Hollywood-formulaic. Special mention should go out to the second and third **Highlander** movies. The second was horrifically awful. The third wasn’t nearly as bad, but wasn’t good. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/31 "2025-04-26T20:25:36Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > Special mention should go out to the second and third **Highlander** movies. The second was horrifically awful. The third wasn’t nearly as bad, but wasn’t good. There can be only one ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/32 "2025-04-26T21:10:33Z")
In the late 1960s, there was talk of Chuck Connors playing Doc Savage. I think it still would have been a George Pal production, so it probably would have sucked just as bad as the Ron Ely film we ended up with. But with a better script and director, it might have been awesome! More recently, there have been rumors of Chris Hemsworth playing the role. Probably won’t happen, but we can hope. I would like to see some of the old matinee serials remade as big-budget TV series. _Buck Rogers_ and _Flash Gordon_, with _Game of Thrones_ budgets. _Dick Tracy_ and _The Shadow_, with _Boardwalk Empire_ budgets. I want a re-make of _Canadian Mounties versus Atomic Invaders_. I have never seen the original, and I admit it was probably terrible, but the title alone makes me want to see it made with superstar actors and state-of-the-art effects. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/33 "2025-04-26T21:22:08Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > n the late 1960s, there was talk of Chuck Connors playing Doc Savage. I think it still would have been a George Pal production, so it probably would have sucked just as bad as the Ron Ely film we ended up with. But with a better script and director, it might have been awesome! More recently, there have been rumors of Chris Hemsworth playing the role. Probably won’t happen, but we can hope. About ten years ago I heard that Dwayne Johnson was going to be doing a Doc Savage movie, but I can’t find any specifics on director or potential plot. I’m assuming the project fell through. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/34 "2025-04-28T08:53:20Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > Special mention should go out to the second and third **Highlander** movies. The problem with the Highlander sequels is that the original movie was essentially the end of the story for the whole group of immortals. Hard to have a sequel to that. The TV show was more successful because it ret-conned that, which kind of makes the original movie completely irrelevant. So the real re-make should be the original Highlander movie. Make it the story of his life. You could probably keep 90+% of the story intact, just drop the whole “This is the Gathering” part. Then you could make lots of other movies about the other immortals. I always wanted to see more of [Kastagir](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091203/characters/nm0702934/?ref_=tt_cst_c_9). He seemed like a guy who was really enjoying just living an immortal life. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/35 "2025-04-28T09:59:02Z")
I would like to see two 80s fantasy movies given this treatment. Firstly **Krull**. I would love to see all the VFX updated to modern level, and the sets to not feel so studio-bound. I’d like Lysette Anthony’s real voice to be restored. And I want the end fight against The Beast to be reworked, so that the Princess is given some agency, such as the two of them using their shared wedding flame to defeat him. Also, use the glaive more. Secondly **Ladyhawke**. I love this movie as is, except for the synth music, and don’t really want it touched. But I could see a complete remake as a limited TV series, allowing the story to explore the origins of the curse, and expand on each of the sequences so we get to know all the characters properly, including the villains. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/36 "2025-04-28T13:21:35Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I would like to see some of the old matinee serials remade as big-budget TV series. _ **Buck Rogers** _ Been there, done that, still sucked. $800K/episode in the early 80s was a significant budget. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/37 "2025-04-28T13:39:53Z")
This topic comes up every now and then here. And my stock answer has always been [The Fountainhead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead_(film)). It was made in 1949 and (IMO) was miscast and poorly executed. It’s a great story that deserves to be made into a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/38 "2025-05-02T19:07:58Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@mbh](#): > > > > _ **Buck Rogers** _ > > Been there, done that, still sucked. > > $800K/episode in the early 80s was a significant budget. Give the 80s Buck Rogers the Battlestar Galatica treatment, and you might be surprised. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/39 "2025-05-03T14:57:14Z")
I want them to take the whole _Mission: Impossible_ franchise into a recording studio and loop all of the necessary dialogue to make the Tom Cruise character be named Jim Phelps. Because Jim Phelps IS THE GOOD GUY, that’s why! ---
**Author:** ![We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@We\_re\_wolves\_not\_werewolves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/We_re_wolves_not_werewolves)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383/40 "2025-05-03T15:02:32Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And he doesn’t get back at the end. just like the tv show “Quantum Leap”! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/episodes-or-movies-you-want-to-see-redone/1017383.md?page=3)