# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/21 "2015-06-10T16:32:30Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > What about _This Island Earth_ and _Creature from the Black Lagoon_? According to Google, a Creature remake was in the works for years. Responding to the OP: For older more genteel filmgoers, **On Golden Pond 3D** is long overdue. ---
**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, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/22 "2015-06-10T17:19:18Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I wouldn’t imagine that \*\*CalMeacham \*\*has any opinion on _This Island Earth_. 🙂 I’ve written many times on this Board that I’d LOVE to see a remake of _This Island Earth_, because the movie basically threw out the bulk of the story, and seriously dumbed down what it kept. For the record, Raymond F. Jones’ book had no Metaluna, no “mutants”, no “Exeter” (the chief alien’s name was the Swedish/Indian sounding “Jorgasnovara”), no mind-wiping, no stealing earth scientists by a higher civilization to perform original research (to help aliens who have FTL space travel and Interociters!). And no flying sauicer. That other Cal Meacham doesn’t fly a jet from Washington to California, either.\* To be honest, Jones’ book kinda peters out as it goes along, but the beginning, with its “aptitude test” of building an interociter from the fleeting descriptions of the parts given in a catalog (and NO Schematic Diagram, as in the film), was very clever and well done. The story describes some of the other aptitude tests (which were failed). And it explains the title, something the movie never does. I feel that you could remake it, in spirit closer to the original, while still retaining some of the visuals that made the original film a 50s icon. If I did it, I’d even find some way to work those ludicrous bulbous-brained insectile mutants in. \*I went to all the trouble of becoming a PhD scientist, and no one has EVER offered to let me pilot a jet. Even if I really needed one. ---
**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, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/23 "2015-06-10T17:33:19Z")
Oddly, although the title _This Island Earth_ was oddly familiar, it wasn’t until **CalMeacham** mentioned the “interociter” that my brain slipped into gear and reminded me that I had seen it: it was the film in [_Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117128/combined) (1996). None of the other plot points triggered my so-called memory, but that one did. I also had no idea that Cal Meacham was the lead character in that movie, although I think it’s forgivable that I didn’t connect the Doper with that bit of trivia. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/24 "2015-06-10T17:49:08Z")
Nazis aren’t fun light-hearted villains anymore like they were in Hogan’s Heroes. I don’t see that remake happening ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/25 "2015-06-10T18:01:57Z")
I would like to see a new remake of _Godzilla_, featuring Steve Martin as a reporter named Raymond Burr. ---
**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, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/26 "2015-06-10T18:08:36Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Oddly, although the title _This Island Earth_ was oddly familiar, it wasn’t until **CalMeacham** mentioned the “interociter” that my brain slipped into gear and reminded me that I had seen it: it was the film in [_Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117128/combined) (1996). None of the other plot points triggered my so-called memory, but that one did. > > I also had no idea that Cal Meacham was the lead character in that movie, although I think it’s forgivable that I didn’t connect the Doper with that bit of trivia. It really bothers me that they didn’t include the entire movie of _This Island Earth_ in _MST3K: The Movie_. The MST3K movie actually ended up being shorter than an episode of the TV show! And there was so much good stuff they could’ve poked fun at in the movie. ---
**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, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/27 "2015-06-10T18:19:13Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > _ **Sound of Music II: The Reich Strikes Back** _ Don’t forget: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8) Conan the Librarian and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvLcozLwtE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvLcozLwtE) Gandhi II ---
**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, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/28 "2015-06-10T18:25:46Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Nazis aren’t fun light-hearted villains anymore like they were in Hogan’s Heroes. I don’t see that remake happening How about a remake with an alcoholic Hitler? (The real Hitler couldn’t drink. It made him mean.) ---
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/29 "2015-06-10T18:47:22Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How about a remake with an alcoholic Hitler? > (The real Hitler couldn’t drink. It made him mean.) Is that a whoosh? 'cause, if true… There are a ton of 50’s era SciFi I’d love to see redone. _The Angry Red Planet_, I loved that red filter, _Forbidden Planet_, _The Incredible Shrinking Man_ It would be like being a kid again. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/30 "2015-06-10T18:49:54Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Nazis aren’t fun light-hearted villains anymore like they were in Hogan’s Heroes. I don’t see that remake happening Which is why it should be remade as POWs in an ISIS camp. Everybody speaks English, they make tunnels in the sand, the camp commander and his lieutenants are oblivious fools, and no one minds the cavalier American colonel who barges in on their meetings and prayer services. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/31 "2015-06-10T18:52:00Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Nazis aren’t fun light-hearted villains anymore like they were in Hogan’s Heroes. I don’t see that remake happening They really weren’t light hearted in Hogan’s Heroes, either. My sons and I have been watching the show’s run on Netflix. Schultz (who was clearly sympathetic to the Prisoners) was light hearted. Klink was an incompetent boob, but he was more than willing to have someone shot. I, too, would love to see an update. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/32 "2015-06-10T19:14:38Z")
[The Warriors](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/?ref_=nv_sr_1) was supposed to have been remade over the last ten years of so. It’s been delayed a number of times, most notably because of the death of attached director Tony Scott, but it was widely poo-pooed by hard-core Warriors fans (such as myself). It was going to be replaced to L.A. and feature modern day, real, gangs – Blood, Crips, etc. Last I heard ([according to this site](http://starseeker.com/2014-movie-release/warriors-2011/)) the script had been changed to bring it back to New York, Norman Reedus may star, and it doesn’t mention anything specifically about release dates but there’s a (2017) on the page title, so who knows?. In fact, if I understand everything correctly it is still in full-on limbo. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/33 "2015-06-10T19:15:28Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > According to Google, a Creature remake was in the works for years. True. In the first edition of his definitive book on 50s SF films, _Keep Watching the Skies!_, Bill Warren mentioned that a _Black Lagoon_ remake was on the horizon, supposedly to be directed by John Carpenter. That was in 1982. I’m still waiting. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/34 "2015-06-10T19:18:17Z")
_Arsenic and Old Lace._ Christopher Walken as the villain. They used to re-make _Beau Geste_ and _The Prisoner of Zenda_ every decade or two. We are overdue. A few years ago, there was a rumor of a Captain Marvel movie, with Dwayne Johnson playing Black Adam. Screw that! Dwayne Johnson should play Captain Marvel! I would like to some of the old matinee serials re-made as HBO or Starz series. \* Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, The Undersea Kingdom,\* or, if I am in a really weird mood, \* The Phantom Empire.\* I would like to see Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Kaspak or Pellucidar novels filmed. Some of them were attempted in the 1970s, with really bad special effects. Today, you could do justice to Pellucidar. With modern CGI, you could do a cast-of-thousands epic war movie, like _Cleopatra_ or _War and Peace_. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/35 "2015-06-10T19:30:05Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > They used to re-make _Beau Geste_ and _The Prisoner of Zenda_ every decade or two. We are overdue. Well, after “The Last Remake of Beau Geste”, you really can’t very well have another one! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/36 "2015-06-10T19:46:44Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > What about _This Island Earth_ and _Creature from the Black Lagoon_? They did remake _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ and that was a mess. Better, _Barbarella 3D_. Even better, if Fifty Shades of Puke proves a market for that kind of movie, _Flesh Gordon 3D_ - especially because the good bits got lost. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/37 "2015-06-10T19:52:59Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > True. In the first edition of his definitive book on 50s SF films, _Keep Watching the Skies!_, Bill Warren mentioned that a _Black Lagoon_ remake was on the horizon, supposedly to be directed by John Carpenter. > > That was in 1982. I’m still waiting. I once talked with a screenwriter who was working on a remake. That was in 1992. With the advent of reality TV competition shows, the time is right for another try at Stephen King’s _The Running Man_ that actually uses the concept and story of the novel. Just completely forget about the Arnold version, which had nothing to do with the book other than a few character names. A few technology tweaks are about all it would take. Instead of giving Richards a camcorder and making him mail in daily videotapes, which are used to track his location via postmarks, give him a GoPro, require daily uploads and track him via the IP addresses he uses. ---
**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, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/38 "2015-06-10T20:28:06Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > They did remake _The Day the Earth Stood Still_ and that was a mess. Better, _Barbarella 3D_. Even better, if Fifty Shades of Puke proves a market for that kind of movie, _Flesh Gordon 3D_ - especially because the good bits got lost. After Flesh Gordon II came out (and we didn’t think THAT was going to happen for a long time, but it finally did), I don’t think anyone’s going to be trying it again. And I don’t think any parts were lost – the film has just been released in different versions, but the X-rated original is elusive, and not on DVD. (The version they showed in Salt Lake City at the Blue Mouse theater was REALLY heavily cut). ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/39 "2015-06-10T20:54:47Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > 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. I dunno, a live action talking unicorn? That’s supposed to be serious? People would make Mr. Ed jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/40 "2015-06-10T20:56:22Z")
While not exactly a remake, I’d love to see someone **finally** do a version of **“I Am Legend”** and actually be true to the book. All three previous attempts, _“The Last Man on Earth”,_ _“The Omega Man”_ and most recently _“I Am Legend”_ were all abject failures. It’s as if the people who made those films never read the original work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149.md?page=3)