I keep waiting for an out-and-out remake of Metropolis, but it’s so damn influential that it’s practically been remade a thousand times anyway.
The sad thing is that Hollywood is awash with new ideas, but the studios are controlled by lawyers and accountants with no creative judgement whatsoever. They have no idea how to judge which concepts will be successful, and which will flop, so they have decided audiences will flock to see the same stories that were successful years ago. It is fear of failure, pure and simple.
I’ll nitpick a lot. It wasn’t a remake- it was a totally different story with the same title.
I actually enjoyed the Steve Martin one for what it was- once I abandoned any hope it was a remake of CBTD.
Latest sign: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, starring (shudder) Owen Wilson.
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You are, of course, correct. This is a large part of why the soon to be released remake of Yours, Mine and Ours has me so annoyed. From the trailer it seems that it departs rather drastically from the original movie and book. Possibly to the same degree as the Martin film of CBTD.
Well, the Danny Kaye movie certainly wandered off pretty far from the Thurber story as I recall.
Prove them wrong, audiences.
Well doesn’t the current box office slump imply that audiences have started to realise that you don’t always have to go see the film no matter what.
The problem is that unless the audiences are going to the ‘indie’ films, and not simply waiting to buy the movie on DVD, instead, the studio bean counter types aren’t going to change strategies.
Really? How so?
(FTR any version of Logan’s Run that doesn’t have a youngish Jenny Agutter running around half the movie in in a diaphonous nightey, and the other half running around in a soaking wet diaphonous nightey, is pointless.)
If it continues for long enough, maybe. There are too many confounds right now- a bad crop of films this year, economic and fuel stuff… I’d like to think so, but I don’t think the studios will change their way of business based on a couple of months.
Lagomorph… I’d have to see it again.
If it continues for long enough, maybe. There are too many confounds right now- a bad crop of films this year, economic and fuel stuff… I’d like to think so, but I don’t think the studios will change their way of business based on a couple of months.
Lagomorph… I’d have to see it again.