How about we remake all of M. Night Shyamalan’s movies to have endings that make more sense and don’t try to insult the audience’s intelligence?
Let’s re-make the DaVinci code to contain some actual elements of mystery…And while we’re at it, let’s re-write the books.
Also, any licensed movie directed by Uwe Boll should get a complete re-write and re-make as part of its contract stipulations.
Damnation Alley Seriously, Hell Tanner played as an Air Force officer by Jan Michael Vincent?!!? A sad, sad movie effort
And don’t get me started on Hitchhiker’sGuide to the Galaxy, the parts from the actual books were passable, but the rest…
As for new productions, it’s time to do Zelazny’s Amber series and Haldeman’s Forever War
Fredric Bown’s classic SF story Arena, which was ostensibly adapted as an episode of Star Trek (but really wasn’t*) and was ripped off both before and after that episode. With CGI, you could do one helluva job, and I’ve filmed it in my head several times. I’d love to do it without any voice-over narration, which I think could be done.
*The story goes that Gene L. Coon wrote the episode first, then someone noticed the similarity and they decided to get Brown’s permission to forestall any legal hassles. There’s no “making gunpowder” in Brown’s story, nor a dinosaur-like opponent, and the end is completely different.
Aliens 3 & 4. God knows how they managed to make such a fuck-up of those movies when graphic novel authors had already written many superior continuations of the Aliens plot. You don’t even need Weaver - the Alien is the star and it winds me up that the studios never realised (forcing her idiotic resurrection in 4).
Nobody is allowed to remake Highlander though. Any film where Connery plays a Spaniard with Scottish accent must stand untarnished for all of time.
I don’t get it. “I, Robot” was the name of a collection of short stories with a very loose framing narrative (IIRC). How could the movie be remade as an adaptation of the book?
The Ellison script was published as an illustrated book. Pick up a copy and learn.
http://www.amazon.com/Robot-Illustrated-Screenplay-Harlan-Ellison/dp/0743486595
Inbrief, the sgtpories are not unrelated, and tell a progression on the history of Robots (and of the life of Susan Calvin) through time. Ellison’s script bears comparison to Citizen Kane.
Ah ok, I get what you were trying to say now. Thanks!
Another possibility would be to make one or more short films based on individual stories. Liar! would work well in this format, for example.
If they ever bring back “The Twilight Zone”, this could also be an individual episode.
I’ve been wanting to see The Grapes Of Wrath redone.
Parodies of ideological movies would be great IMO like say a realistic picture of the Reconstruction South in a remake of The Birth of a Nation.
Fandango
I just finished watching an old favorite of mine that I picked up on Blu-ray for $6, and for sure it could be remade, but only if we can somehow get the lead actor to rejuvenate 20 years or so.
Army of Darkness is a great movie, but the special effects available at the time and within the budget constraints they faced are laughably bad.
Groovy.
I agree, the original Robocop movie is good. I think people expect it to be campier than it actually is. The FX were good for its time, but I wouldn’t mind seeing what a re-make would be like in the right hands.
I read that last sentence as “…but I wouldn’t mind seeing what a re-make would be like in the hands of anyone but Verhoeven.”
How about ‘Gone With The Wind’? Angelina Jolie as Scarlett O’Hara! She’d certainly look the part of the starving Southern Belle at the start of the second half of the movie. (Let’s have George Clooney as Rhett Butler and, oh, ok, Brad Pitt as Ashley Wilkes. Melanie…?)
“I’m not Spanish, I’m Egyptian.”
Shucks, since Olivia de Havilland is still alive…