The first FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC movie was supposed to be the start of a franchise. Except it sucked total hippo ass.
Make it big-budget and trashy this time. The story is there.
We’re overdue for an updated version of The President’s Analyst (1967). 
Forbidden Planet
Flash Gordon
Collosus
The Time Machine
Legend (without Tom Cruise this time). Actually I think I’d like to see a sequel. Keep Mia Sara in it though.
Animal House
Superman
why redo Animal house? They’d just turn it into a crappy American Pie knockoff.
Shogun…maybe.
Clockwork Orange.
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Gremlins could use some polishing.
Remake the orginal Evil Dead. Shot by shot just update the F/X. (Evil Dead 2 DOES NOT COUNT. I know people love it but I think it sucks.)
the goonies but i bet they would spoil it
So, that would be the animated series, then.
Master and Commander needs unmaking.
I second:
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STARSHIP TROOPERS. I saw the movie before I read the book, and was appalled at just how much a overpaid screenwriter can trash a good novel and make it a ALIENS-knockoff.
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CLOCKWORK ORANGE. Kubrick’s version is perfect for the first half and pathetic for the second half, compared to the novel.
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MATRIX RELOADED/MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. Given the premise and promise of the first movie, there is absolutely no excuse for releasing these pieces of shit to the general public. A twelve year old Star Trek fan with a glue sniffing problem could have come up with better screenplays for these movies.
hmm, The Hot Rock with Roberrt Redford in it from the 70’s. It would make a good Oceans Eleven type film, done by the right people.
I reckon.
This one has been remade, but it’s had lousy distribution. I saw the new British version on American PBS circa 1988, and it’s great – low-tech, but very faithful to Wyndham’s book. With luck, someone will re-release it to DVD:
** Memoirs of an Invisible Man **. Maybe this time they could shoot the movie just like H.F. Saint’s incredible book.
Children of the Corn. Done with teeth and intelligence.
The Odessa File – Don’t change the ending from the book’s!
The Firm – Don’t change the ending from the Book’s!
Arena – Fredric Brown’s short story has been stolen innumerable times, and drastically changed as an episode of Star Trek. But it deserves to be done right.
This Island earth – Raymond F. Jones’ book was pretty damned good. Too bad the jettisoned almost the whole thing to make the dumb 1955 film. No mutants! Exeter’s name is really Jorganosvara!
The Puppet Masters – For cryin’ out loud, they should do at least one Heinlein movie right.
Starship Troopers – For cryin’ out loud, they should do at least one Heinlein movie right.
From the Earth to the Moon – Jules Verne hasn’t fared well in the cinema, and this argfuable the worst and least faithful adaptation.
The Dunwich Horror – H.P. Lovecraft has had a bad time of it, too.
Die, Monster, Die – Hard to believe that Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space” lurks under this mess.
The Haunted Palace – or that Lovecraft’s excellent “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” lies under this monstrosity.
The Time Machine – really needs to be played straight, for once.
Metamorphoses – it was supposed to be the new “Fantasia”, with animation by great Disney artists and a modern rock score by major rock performers. It turned out to be awful. It should bve done right.
BELL, BOOK & CANDLE (this time slightly less misogynistic; I think the Buffy generation would love it- change her brother from a beatnik to an Eminem wannabe warlock rapper)
ARSENIC & OLD LACE (the basic plot is still hysterical but the movie is very dated; I think an update could work [perhaps the older brother now thinks he’s JFK and the running gag is “Freddy Krueger” instead of Boris Karloff]
CAMELOT (one of the best musical scores but probably the worst movie musical ever)
PYGMALION (modern setting, perhaps with an ebonics/racial twist)
It’s been re-done, but the last one was dreadful, I’d like to see His Girl Friday redone with modern setting, but the Sam Spade like clothes and talk.
Lion in Winter Though it would be ruined by the craptacular actors of today, I’d like to see an attempt, though it is nearly a perfect film in my book.
Just about any of the John Hughes films of the 80’s.
and, since I have been thinking of it for a few years, I’m glad to see Peter Pan getting another couple of shots after the dismal Dustin Hoffman/Robin Williams/Julia Roberts outing.
I think they should remake the Michael Caine flick Pulp. The plot is perfect for a remake these days, a trashy pulp novel writer gets invited to write the biography of a reclusive former Hollywood star who was famous for playing gangsters and who associated with real mobsters in his prime. The novelist’s life quickly turns into something out of one his own novels.
Caine and Directer Michael Hodges also made the original Get Carter, a cult favorite, which was remade into another bad Sylvester Stallone flick. Since most people don’t like Pulp, I do but considered it a flawed gem that could possibly be improved upon.
Then again now that I’ve seen the original The Italian Job my boredom during the recent remake has turned to disgust. You take a fun, light jaunty caper flick with a very English sense of style and humor (with a great ending) and even Noel Coward for goodness sake, and turn it into another dull revenge flick with the bland Mark Wahlberg, a stupid tired Napster running joke, and for wit instead of Coward we get uber-slacker Seth Green. And the damn “Job” of the title happens during the opening of the movie. WTF!
Definitely Starship Troopers and Forbidden Planet.
Your wish is granted .
Clash of the Titans - Not just this one, I think all of Greek Mythology is ripe for Hollywood.
Battle of Britain, could be an epic remake…
Forbidden Planet? Why, in the Name of the Krel? It’s one of the best SDF movies ever made, and most of the effects stand up even today. Don’t mess with it.
A few more suggestions:
War iof the Worlds – I’ve never liked George Pal’s version. Ray Harryhausen wanted to do it as a period piece, and his stop-motion style would’ve been perfect for the tripods. They could probably do a good CGI job on them and the martiasns themselves.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – I’ve yet to see a version at all faithful to the story. T\wo of them were just “star” vehicles (for Bing Crosby and Will Rogers).
Master of the World – even with Vincent Price, it’s not a good adaptaion of Verne.