# Remakes That COULD Work **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 29, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967 "2007-05-29T18:41:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/41 "2007-05-31T21:25:40Z")
I was thinking not long ago that a remake of _Barbarella_ might be interesting, if done right. And I just read in “Entertainment Weekly” that Robert Rodriguez is going to make one! Supposedly his version will be more similar to the original graphic novels. Sounds good. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/42 "2007-05-31T21:51:49Z")
[QUOTE=Terrorcotta] I just finished reading 'Mildred Pierce" and was telling a friend about it. She asked if it could be remade as a movie today since sex is more acceptable. I asked whether she meant a retro piece like “LA Story” or “Black Dahlia” or a contemporized version. [/QUOTE] Perhaps you mean “L.A. Confidential”? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/43 "2007-05-31T23:07:25Z")
How about **Planet of the Apes** , but based on the original French novel, _La planète des singes_, with the apes at our own level of technology. I’m jist not sure how to deal with the Jinn and Phillys reveal. Burton’s reimagining was horrible. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/44 "2007-06-01T02:56:49Z")
_Grindhouse_ got me thinking along these lines, I would pay serious money to see a Robert Rodriquez remake of _Frankenhooker_ Wanna date? ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/45 "2007-06-01T03:07:12Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] The Most Dangerous Game and Sunset Boulevard [/QUOTE] I’ve got to disagree with all of you who think that **Sunset Boulevard** should be remade. I put it in the pantheon of **Casablanca** and **To Kill a Mockingbird** as movies which should never be remade, because they cannot be improved upon. [QUOTE=Norma Desmond] All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/46 "2007-06-01T03:16:49Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] As long as they’re doing adaptations of 1980s cartoons, why don’t they make a _good_ version of **He-Man and the Masters of the Universe**? One set on Eternia rather than Earth. And with Orko, dammit! [/QUOTE] Soooo…are we talking Vin Deisel or The Rock here? [QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] I want to see \*\*Greatest American Hero \*\* as a movie. Desperately. [/QUOTE] You say that now. What about when they ask Jim Carey or Will Farrel to play the lead? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/47 "2007-06-01T03:24:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Grindhouse got me thinking along these lines, I would pay serious money to see a Robert Rodriquez remake of Frankenhooker > > Wanna date? Do you realize that **Frankenhooker** is itself essentially a remake of **The Brain/Head that Wouldn’t Die**? [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052646/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052646/) Not only is the plot the same, but at the beginning you see the hero playing with a brain in a large beaker of water, and the brain has a huge eye in the front, just like in the poster for TB/HTWD: > **[The Brain That Wouldn't Die Movie Poster](http://www.impawards.com/1962/brain_that_wouldnt_die.html)** > > Official theatrical movie poster for The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962). Directed by Joseph Green. Starring Jason Evers, Virginia Leith, Doris Brent, Audrey Devereal ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/48 "2007-06-01T04:29:28Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] How about **Planet of the Apes** , but based on the original French novel, _La planète des singes_, with the apes at our own level of technology. I’m jist not sure how to deal with the Jinn and Phillys reveal. Burton’s reimagining was horrible. [/QUOTE] Did you ever see the cartoon series Return to the Planet of the Apes? It was set on future Earth but the apes had 20th century technology. I thought it was rather an interesting alternate take on the concept. > [@msmith537](#): > > Soooo…are we talking Vin Deisel or The Rock here? I thought they’d just use CGI for Orko. ---
**Author:** ![Foldup\_Rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Foldup\_Rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foldup_Rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/49 "2007-06-01T07:50:53Z")
STARSHIP -effing- TROOPERS. brrr… ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/50 "2007-06-01T08:06:30Z")
It’s funny that this thread should appear now, because earlier today I was thinking that if they had remade The Seven Year Itch in about 1974, it could have been a great movie, but if they remade it now it would probably stink. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/51 "2007-06-01T13:38:54Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I was thinking not long ago that a remake of _Barbarella_ might be interesting, if done right. And I just read in “Entertainment Weekly” that Robert Rodriguez is going to make one! Supposedly his version will be more similar to the original graphic novels. Sounds good. [/QUOTE] On last year’s _America’s Got Talent_ was this 7 ft tall flaming queen named Vladimir Malchikhin who looked perfect for the part of the blind “angel” from _Barbarella_. Surprisingly, there’s not a single picture of him I can find on the web. Given that he’s the _most_ bizarre thing I’ve seen on TV (with or _without_ the use of mind altering substances), I’m at a loss as to why this might be. ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/52 "2007-06-01T16:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] As long as they’re doing adaptations of 1980s cartoons, why don’t they make a _good_ version of **He-Man and the Masters of the Universe**? One set on Eternia rather than Earth. And with Orko, dammit! [/QUOTE] The remake is being made. [Link](http://movies.ign.com/articles/791/791404p1.html) ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/53 "2007-06-01T16:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] I don’t think Hollywood is ready to keep the compulsory nudity from the novel intact. [/QUOTE] Nor do this movie without turning into a plotless action flick. It could be a great movie, but Hollywood couldn’t do it well. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/54 "2007-06-01T20:27:29Z")
What is wrong with you people?! Hollywood already has a very serious remake problem, in case you haven’t noticed. And they’re notoriously bad at it. There’s no sense in encouraging them. Same with the TV show movies. Boycott all remakes!!! ---
**Author:** ![fluffyemu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@fluffyemu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluffyemu)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/55 "2007-06-02T13:49:30Z")
> [@](#): > > On last year’s America’s Got Talent was this 7 ft tall flaming queen named Vladimir Malchikhin who looked perfect for the part of the blind “angel” from Barbarella. Surprisingly, there’s not a single picture of him I can find on the web. Given that he’s the most bizarre thing I’ve seen on TV (with or without the use of mind altering substances), I’m at a loss as to why this might be. That might be because you have the wrong name. Vladimir was on the show, but he’s a relatively normal looking acrobat who does handstands as seen in this clip: [http://www.talentedvideos.com/americas-got-talent/acrobat-vladimir-malachikhin/](http://www.talentedvideos.com/americas-got-talent/acrobat-vladimir-malachikhin/) THIS may be who you mean: [http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4789](http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4789) ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/56 "2007-06-02T13:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=msmith537] You say that now. What about when they ask Jim Carey or Will Farrel to play the lead? [/QUOTE] You…you don’t have any right to talk to me like that! My dreams are all I have… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/57 "2007-06-02T18:46:50Z")
[QUOTE=fluffyemu] THIS may be who you mean: [http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4789](http://www.the-trades.com/article.php?id=4789) [/QUOTE] Ah, yes. That’s the fellow. I hope he’s managed to find himself a good gig. ---
**Author:** ![kid40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@kid40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kid40)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/58 "2007-06-03T05:32:28Z")
[QUOTE=Terrorcotta] I just finished reading 'Mildred Pierce" and was telling a friend about it. She asked if it could be remade as a movie today since sex is more acceptable. I asked whether she meant a retro piece like “LA Story” or “Black Dahlia” or a contemporized version. She picked contempory so I retold the story to her as played in NYC with a black family. You know, it worked. (I was rather proud of my version, it starred Queen Latifah as Mildred, Bernie Mack as Burt Pierce and Will Smith as Monty Burgeron.) You heard it here. [/QUOTE] I dont think anyone could play Mildred except Joan Crawford. What about Queen Latifah playing the lead in mommy dearest. That would be interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/59 "2007-06-03T10:33:54Z")
Maybe\* The Sting\* with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. _Maybe_. Robert Redford and Paul Newman would be tough to follow, but I think Clooney and Pitt have enough chemistry to pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967/60 "2007-06-03T10:41:06Z")
_Midnight Cowboy_ should be remade, with Owen Wilson as Joe and Ben Stiller as Ratso. _Star Wars: A New Hope_, starring Owen Wilson as Luke Skywalker, Vince Vaughn as Han Solo, and Christopher Walken as Obi-Wan Kenobi. _Gandhi_ starring that Indian guy from _Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle._ Fuck Ben Kingsley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-could-work/405967.md?page=4)