That was good. DeNiro was more menacing than Mitchum, though I enjoy the original as well.
Death Race 2000.
OOOOOoooooooooooooo!! Boy howdy, are you on the money! Maybe Faye Dunaway for Norma?
It’s in production.
Why only Crawford? I think many actresses today could do soft and tough with good cheekbones and a rolled up 40s do. Susan Sarandon might be interesting.
It seems I remember reading that Truman Capote once said he could see a remake of Breakfast at Tiffany’s with Julia Robers as Holly Golightly. Comments?
Do you mean Julia Roberts? Her first credit in IMDB is 1987, while Capote died in 1984, so I doubt it. However, I did have to look up those dates. Maybe someone else associated with BF-at-Ts said it.
The problem would be finding replacements for Cecil B Demille and his contemporaries. One of the best things about the original was the parallels of the characters and the actors. So that is inherently lost in a remake.
Ewan would also be good as Sam Lowry in** Brazil**. I think his inherently honest face is what prompts my choice in this. Both **Brazil ** and **Sunset Blvd ** are about honest men who get in over their heads.
Since we know that can’t happen, can we get somebody interested in doing John Steakley’s Armor?
Dracula, after all these years, has still never been done properly.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope. No need to hide the gay aspect these days. Also, no need for experimental film techniques. Focus on the story and I bet this could be a decent remake.
I like the original, but I’m one of the few.
So who would you cast to remake Peter Sellers , the Party.
Apocolypse now probably would not translate well to Iraq, but blackhawk down has possibilitys.
As well, you could probably remake the good, the bad and the ugly in Iraq and just switch the mexicans for Iraqis, or even funnier dont and exclude the Iraqis.
Declan
Cool - I wanna see spiky armoured battlecars running over pedestrians in post-apoc America done with a budget of more than $1200. Wonder if they can get Stallone again?
The Breakfast Club 2010
This is a movie I would like to see but I am also a sucker for a good cameo. This would be the breakfast club the next generation movie. Yeah I know the originals are old enough to be grandparents now but go with me.
The same archetypes of school kids except now the offspring are the opposites of what their parents were…
The Brain made lots of money so he his daughter is a Princess
The Jock wanted a son but got a daughter so she is Neurotic
The Delinquent’s son is the new Brain
The Princess had a life of leisure so her son’s a Delinquent
The Neurotic ended up going all holistic and health nutty and her son is the Jock
Make it the same movie but instead of being against 1 anal teacher, they rebel against the whole school. Making it more like a Ferris Bueller’s day off meets the Breakfast Club (yeah and name the principle Mr. F. Bueller). Wackiness ensues and through the movie the kids learn about themselves and each other (just like in the 1st movie). Then at the end their parents come and bail them out of a tight situation and that’s when we discover that the original Breakfast Club is their parents.
Told you I was sucker for a good cameo.
It would only work though if you could get Ringwald, Hall, Estevez, Sheedy and Nelson back to play the parents.I don’t know whether you know this, but “all-black remake of a classic movie/tv series” is pretty much a cliché by now, at least in the comedy field.
Kind of a bastard child of Sunset Boulevard and Performance.
I’m not a big fan of remakes. Even in cases where they may be technically superior to the earlier version, I tend to enjoy watching the originals more for their historical and cultural value.
Most of the counterexamples given in this thread are not remakes of movies, but adaptations from another medium: The Maltese Falcon, Moby Dick, The Ten Commandments, The Lord of the Rings.
“The Sea Beast” is in fact a completely different story only tangentially related to Melville’s novel. The silent movie “The Ten Commandments” was set largely in the present day. “The Lord of the Rings” was only half finished (thank Eru).
Jackson’s King Kong can’t hold a candle to the original, despite the whiz-bang CGI.
Didn’t Truman Capote envision Marilyn Monroe as Holly Golightly? I can’t imagine him thinking Julia Roberts would be a good surrogate. Besides, I hate to seem ageist, but Holly needs to be younger.
It’s been a couple of years since I read it, but I thought it was awesome. Of course the question becomes can they actually do it well?
I’ve said this before, but Silverhawks as hard scifi. Keep most of the original designs, or at least only change it enough to get rid of the strikingly 80s stuff. Give Melodia and Bluegrass actual songs. I’d like something with Timestopper, only because he was such a cool but underused character.
Since Hollywood seems to be flat outta ideas all together why no just start at the beginning?
Just start remaking all the hits from each decade
Gone with the Wind
Godfather
Scarface
Spaceballs
Better yet remake some serious bombs and try tomake them better
like Solarbabies or Yor - Hunter from the Future.
A remake of Tarzan of the Apes would work if it was set not in the actual late-19th/early-20th century, but in a Burroughsian fantasy version of pre-WW1 Africa. Sort of the way Raiders of the Lost Ark and Pirates of the Carribean were set in idealized cliches of their time periods.