# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/61 "2015-06-11T18:12:58Z")
A remake I would be very torn about, _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension_ I think I’d love it and hate it both at the same time. I’d also like to see a remake of _[Phase IV](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/)_ but I’m probably the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/62 "2015-06-11T18:19:28Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > Some of the 70s films with updated social commentary perhaps. > **Soylent Green**? **Logan’s Run**? They would have to avoid becoming CGI filled summer blockbusters to work though. Zardoz? “The gun is good! The penis is evil!” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/63 "2015-06-11T18:37:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 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. That actually WAS a remake. It was originally a TV miniseries. ---
**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 11, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/64 "2015-06-11T18:43:42Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > That actually WAS a remake. It was originally a TV miniseries. I know – I’ve got copies of both the movie and the TV series. All the original Quatermass trilogy were first TV series before being filmed. In all three cases, they significantly changed the story of the miniseries to make the movie. But I’d like to see a remake of the movie, as I said, with better effects. Just because something was already remade doesn’t disqualify it – there are other items on this list that were already remade. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/65 "2015-06-11T18:52:32Z")
But the title is _Remakes That Haven’t Happened Yet_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/66 "2015-06-11T18:53:10Z")
Buck Rogers would be fun - but probably a bloated CGI event. Let the dystopian folks get ahold of the future and drop a modern day fighter pilot / shuttle pilot / Elon Musk or Richard Branson employee into it all. Logan’s Run - I agree on re-doing that one somehow. A bt of soylent green tossed in with it. MASH set in Iraq or Afghanistan. Bring an edgy humor to a pointless war. ---
**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 12, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/67 "2015-06-12T13:11:33Z")
I would like to see a decent remake of “Doc Savage”. That one they made back in the 70s was a mess. Done right, it could make a great action movie franchise. ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/68 "2015-06-12T14:58:59Z")
The Goonies, Bloodsport, Roadhouse, Dark Crystal, Gremlins, Ghostbusters, Weird Science. I was going to say Footloose, but apparently they’ve already remade that. ---
**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 12, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/69 "2015-06-12T16:36:15Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I would like to see a decent remake of “Doc Savage”. That one they made back in the 70s was a mess. Done right, it could make a great action movie franchise. Great idea. It has the large cast of supporting heroes, the obligatory woman, and if they let Doc upgrade his garage you could have a bunch of nice CGI vehicles. Question: keep it in the '30s or move it to today? **Lowdown** : Ghostbusters is coming out soon. With a female set of Ghostbusters. ---
**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 12, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/70 "2015-06-12T18:59:25Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Great idea. It has the large cast of supporting heroes, the obligatory woman, and if they let Doc upgrade his garage you could have a bunch of nice CGI vehicles. > > Question: keep it in the '30s or move it to today? > > **Lowdown** : Ghostbusters is coming out soon. With a female set of Ghostbusters. Definitely keep it in the '30s. Updating it would be a huge mistake. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/71 "2015-06-12T19:09:40Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > _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. Pulp fiction just doesnt translate to the Big Screen very well, the characters are very Black and White, and film producers think that we dont like that anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/72 "2015-06-12T19:15:16Z")
To Kill a Mockingbird- The film is deservedly a classic, but takes out about 2/3 of the novel including some of its best scenes and characters; also, an allegation to incest is omitted due to codes of the time. I would love to see it remade as a miniseries that contains more of the book. Gone With the Wind- for reasons I’ve stated many times and similar to above: a miniseries that 1- contains more of the many plots and characters from the novel 2- has an Ashley that’s believable as a teenaged girl’s objet’d’lust 3- is more historical fiction (like the book) than epic bad romance (like the movie) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/73 "2015-06-12T19:23:01Z")
Supposedly a remake of **Forbidden Planet** has been in development Hell for quite some time. I guess that would be OK, but the original is just so good (given the time it was made), I fear any remake will not be able to live up or improve on the original. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/74 "2015-06-12T19:27:02Z")
IDIOCRACY 2: BROUGHT TO YOU BY CARL’S JR. Yeah, it would make lots of money. I like money… ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149/75 "2015-06-12T23:31:51Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > I dunno, a live action talking unicorn? That’s supposed to be serious? People would make Mr. Ed jokes. A…live action talking unicorn, like Mr. Ed???😕 why in the world would they do THAT?? The beautiful unicorn wouldn’t be chawing on a wad of bubble gum or something with some current bimbo’s voice coming out, the unicorn is telepathic and you hear her speech in your head. Duh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-that-havent-happened-yet/722149.md?page=3)