# Remake of Romero's "The Crazies"!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067 "2009-11-10T17:51:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067/1 "2009-11-10T17:51:33Z")
[Trailer](http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3310486041/) Saw this trailer this past weekend and am very excited about it. When the title came up at the end, I just said, “Whoa!” I always felt that _The Crazies_ was one of Romero’s better films, and one that tends to get lost in the “Living Dead” shuffle. I also like the use of the “Mad World” cover from _Donnie Darko_. Any further info or thoughts from the fans out there? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067/2 "2009-11-10T18:23:23Z")
Yeah I’ve been waiting to hear more about this. Another retread, like films have an expiration date and must be rebooted every 30 years. I was reading an item about the upcoming Avatar, and one of the things that counts against it in the minds of market prognosticators is that it’s an original screenplay. Let that settle for a minute. That’s right, it’s considered bad box office to make a movie where the ticket buyers aren’t already safely familiar with the story. They want to go in knowing the ending. This boggles me entirely but goes a long way to explain why the Hollywood papmakers keep churning out the same stale tripe year after year. (To my mind, that was one of the most valuable issues raised by Van Sant’s version of Psycho: it seemed to intentionally question the wisdom of this trend.) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067/3 "2009-11-12T22:06:38Z")
Hmmm… with the current vampire craze going on, you’d think they’d remake [Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(film)) first. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067/4 "2009-11-12T23:27:03Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Hmmm… with the current vampire craze going on, you’d think they’d remake [Martin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(film)) first. **shudder** My father, for reasons known only to himself ( and possibly involving some deep-seated passive-aggression deriving from his occasionally contentious childhood ), rented this on VHS to watch _with my grandmother present_. Top five on my all time uncomfortable moment list. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067/5 "2009-11-13T17:55:01Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Yeah I’ve been waiting to hear more about this. Another retread, like films have an expiration date and must be rebooted every 30 years. > > I was reading an item about the upcoming Avatar, and one of the things that counts against it in the minds of market prognosticators is that it’s an original screenplay. Let that settle for a minute. That’s right, it’s considered bad box office to make a movie where the ticket buyers aren’t already safely familiar with the story. They want to go in knowing the ending. This boggles me entirely but goes a long way to explain why the Hollywood papmakers keep churning out the same stale tripe year after year. > > (To my mind, that was one of the most valuable issues raised by Van Sant’s version of Psycho: it seemed to intentionally question the wisdom of this trend.) All they need to do is package it as what it is- a sci-fi remake of Dances with Wolves. Oscar winnah! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remake-of-romeros-the-crazies/517067/6 "2009-11-14T21:53:46Z")
The trailer linked in the OP won’t play for me, and no I’m not turning off adblocking on IMDB to get it to run (they’ve had some of the most obnoxious ads I’ve ever run across there) but I found one at youtube. No idea if it’s the same one or not, but in case anyone else is blocked by IMDB, here it is. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEMZwQulT1Q)