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.
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.
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 (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.
Nazis aren’t fun light-hearted villains anymore like they were in Hogan’s Heroes. I don’t see that remake happening
I would like to see a new remake of Godzilla, featuring Steve Martin as a reporter named Raymond Burr.
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.
Don’t forget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZHoHaAYHq8 Conan the Librarian
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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.
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.
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.
The Warriors 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) 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.
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.
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.
Well, after “The Last Remake of Beau Geste”, you really can’t very well have another one!
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.
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.
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).
I dunno, a live action talking unicorn? That’s supposed to be serious? People would make Mr. Ed jokes.
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.