# Remakes That Haven't Happened Yet **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149 "2015-06-10T07:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Waymore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Waymore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waymore)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/1 "2015-06-10T07:12:55Z")
It’s cliché to say everything coming out in theaters and on TV is a remake of something else, but there’s a kernel of truth to it. But, what remakes are you surprised haven’t been made yet? Personally, I want to see a Hogan’s Heroes remake. ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/2 "2015-06-10T09:41:51Z")
I always felt that a remake of the reboot of Spider-man’s reboot is way past its due. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/3 "2015-06-10T10:22:24Z")
Monster Squad The Goonies The Day After (well I don’t particularly want to see a remake of this but a big budget World War III film set in the 1980s would be amazing) ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/4 "2015-06-10T10:26:08Z")
Still waiting for a gritty reboot of Inspector Gadget. ---
**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 10, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/5 "2015-06-10T11:51:12Z")
I’d like to see a remake of _The Puppet Masters_, Heinlein’s book. It’s been plagiarized once in the 1950s, then made By Disney in the 1980s with some decent effects, but with the plot annoyingly and unconvincingly re-set to the present day. There have been two shots at Asimov’s _Nightfall_, both awful. It’;d be nice to see someone do it straight. And I’ve long dreamed of filming Fredric Brown’s _Arena_, which has been ripped off numerous times, and supposedly adapted as an episode of _Star Trek_ (but it really wasn’t). You could do a helluva job with modern CGI. And I think you could make the film without the crutch of voiceovers. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/6 "2015-06-10T12:09:51Z")
Phillip Jose Farmer’s _Riverworld_ series has had a half-assed TV movie attempt. I’m kind of surprised there hasn’t been a big money major motion picture attempt. ---
**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 10, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/7 "2015-06-10T12:19:16Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Phillip Jose Farmer’s _Riverworld_ series has had a half-assed TV movie attempt. I’m kind of surprised there hasn’t been a big money major motion picture attempt. It’s had _two_ TV movie attempts. The first one changed the hero from Sir Richard Burton to some American astronaut (I think the makers thought Americans wouldn’t go for a movie with a British hero. They should watch some James Bond. Or Sherlock Holmes). The second brought Burton in, but he was an ambiguous character. Nobody seems to want to play Farmer’s series straight – they change things, seemingly at random. I wouldn’t mind seeing someone take another crack at it, but don’t have high hopes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/8 "2015-06-10T13:34:57Z")
Condorman. The Rocketeer. The Greatest American Hero. I Dream of Jeannie. Scarecrow and Mrs King. ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/9 "2015-06-10T13:37:42Z")
With all the wonders of CGI at the filmmakers’ disposable, I’m really surprised that no one has bothered to do a big-budget remake of _Fantastic Voyage_. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/10 "2015-06-10T13:46:45Z")
The Last Unicorn. There’s a cult-ish cartoon version people seem to love, but no reason a live-action remake couldn’t be made. One was planned some years ago with Mia Farrow as Molly, but fell through. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/11 "2015-06-10T13:49:41Z")
**The Rocky Horror Picture Show**? C’mon, it’s been 40 years! ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/12 "2015-06-10T13:50:14Z")
I’d be curious to see if a remake of Eddie and the Cruisers could work. I like the basic plot but I don’t know how they could update the timeline — Brian Wilson-esque artist struggles because he wants to do a breakthrough album with a new sound but the sound is 15+ years “ahead of its time” and as such the record company stonewalls him and he (maybe? deliberately?) drives off a bridge. With music industry being such as it is today (and for that matter pop/rock being what it’s become), I’m not quite seeing what the parallel is. Similar thought on Network. I’d love to see the modern equivalent, but not really sure what it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/13 "2015-06-10T14:05:05Z")
The Facts of Life. Imagine how cheesy it would be. ---
**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:** [June 10, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/14 "2015-06-10T14:09:39Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **The Rocky Horror Picture Show**? > > C’mon, it’s been 40 years! One was announced a few weeks ago- well a Fox tv-special remake. ---
**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 10, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/15 "2015-06-10T14:13:02Z")
I’d really like to see _Quatermass and the Pit_ (AKA _Five Million Years to Earth_ redone. They could fix up the crude effects used the first time around, and also fix the mistakes. An underappreciated flick. On the other hand, look at how remakes and reboots did a terrible job on _The Day the Earth Stood Still Total Recall The Andromeda Strain_ _Day of the Triffids_ has already been rebooted and done well (the first BBC version , which was much better and more faithful than the 1960s movie). But then they rebooted it again, and made it bad. ---
**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 10, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/16 "2015-06-10T14:20:28Z")
Actually, I’d go for remakes of most of the Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft movies that have been made. The older movie versions have generally been awful. even when H.G. Wells was responsible for the film ( **Things to Come** ) the result was abysmal. (Verne arguably wasn’t much better. Having read his stage scripts for his own stories, I’m convinced he would’ve screwed up a film adaptation if he’d tried it) There were a few good cases – Wells’ **The Man who Could Work Miracles** , for instance. Disney’s **20,000 Leagues Under the Sea**. I like the Harryhausen films because of his effects work, but they’re not really good expressions of the original Wells or Verne stories. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/17 "2015-06-10T15:27:32Z")
What about _This Island Earth_ and _Creature from the Black Lagoon_? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/18 "2015-06-10T15:32:12Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > What about _This Island Earth_ and _Creature from the Black Lagoon_? I wouldn’t imagine that \*\*CalMeacham \*\*has any opinion on _This Island Earth_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/19 "2015-06-10T16:00:30Z")
Isn’t it about time for a remake of _Citizen Kane_? Instead of Hearst, you could base it on Rupert Murdoch. You could make it in color and 3D. Cast John Malkovich as young Kane’s miserly guardian, Charlize Theron as his singer/mistress. And in the title role, and perhaps directing, Keanu Reeves. It would be great! What? FYI, this was [NPR’s 2014 April Fools joke,](http://www.npr.org/2014/04/01/297284760/its-not-a-sled-anymore-remaking-a-cinematic-classic) made with the cooperation of those three stars. Complete with a poster and everything. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/20 "2015-06-10T16:25:18Z")
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