# Remakes you actually want to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872 "2018-10-12T20:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/21 "2018-10-13T15:43:29Z")
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I wanted to see a remake of _Beau Geste_ with all 4 of the Baldwin brothers playing the various Geste brothers. There has been talk of Chris Hemsworth playing Doc Savage. With a decent director and decent writers, it might be good. I want to see some of the old matinee serials remade as cable TV series. _Flash Gordon_ or _Buck Rogers_, done with a _Game of Thrones_ budget. _Dick Tracy_ or _The Shadow_, done with a _Boardwalk Empire_ budget. Roger Corman’s old Edgar Allen Poe/H.P. Lovecraft films were kind of fun. Are there any actors today who could fill Vincent Price’s shoes? I want a _Frankenstein_ film, done with Jack Pierce’s makeup design. I don’t want a remake of _John Carter_. I want two sequels. And while we’re at it, do Amtor and Pellucidar. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/22 "2018-10-13T16:17:53Z")
The Lord of the Rings prequel I’d like to see (we’ll forget The Hobbit ever happened) is Akallabêth, the story of the Downfall of Numenor. How Sauron corrupted the last king of Numenor, Ar-Pharazôn the Golden, and convinced him to build an armada, sail to the Undying Lands, and wage war on the Gods themselves. It did not end well. (spoiler) A cataclysm swamps the armada, drowns the entire continent of Numenor, and the world turns from flat to round in case anybody gets any bright ideas of trying that again. But Elendil and his supporters wash up on the shores of Middle Earth and found the kingdom of Gondor. Sauron survives too, of course. I’ve got the script written in my head. It would be EPIC. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/23 "2018-10-13T16:45:41Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’d like to see a _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ that was accurate to the novella–an 18-year-old call girl and her gay neighbor and no romantic ending. (Still set in the original time period.) I would like to see that. The idea that George Peppard was a ‘kept man’ (kept by a woman, Patricia Neal) is rather absurd, but I suppose they had to do that in the 1961 movie. Similarly, ‘The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone’ is based on Tennessee Williams’ own past, where he was ‘Mrs. Stone’ and keeping a younger Italian man. I love the look of the movie but find it hard to believe a wealthy widow played by Vivian Leigh would arrange through an old-lady-friend-pimp for the ‘companionship’ of younger gigolo Warren Beatty. (Seems there were plenty of gigolos for hire in the 50’s and 60’s and plenty of sex-starved rich older women eager for their services!) I wish a movie would show the truth once in a while, but such efforts are relagated to ‘art films’ and ‘foreign films’. Much admired - but showing the truth of gay for pay would still be a career killer for modern major actors… ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/24 "2018-10-13T20:26:38Z")
There is another _War Of The Worlds_ currently in the works - a period piece. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/25 "2018-10-13T23:00:36Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > “The Incredible Shrinking Man”…maybe. A lot of potential there but I think they’d blow it. This _would_ be interesting. The original film did well with its budget, but it was a “B” picture, so the budget wasn’t really great. Even for the time, a lot of the special effects were of low quality. In addition, there’s a lot in the original novel that couldn’t be done in a film mad in the 1950s – the film hints at sexual frustration between the shrinking man and his wife, which could be more explicit these days\*. And in the novel he was approached, in his reduced size, by a child molester. And they could do a much better job these days with the spider (which actually occupies a very large portion of the novella), and actually depict it as a Black Widow spider, as in the book, rather than a Tarantula. \*despite the fact that there’s a lot of Giantess/Shrinking Man erotica on the web these days, the prospect of it _really_ affecting people was treated in the novel as tragic in its implications. ---
**Author:** ![Catsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@Catsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catsie)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/26 "2018-10-14T05:29:56Z")
> [@The\_Tooth](#): > > I’d like to see Babylon 5 re-done in a style more like Battlestar Galactica or The Expanse and less like Star Trek. No-o-o-o!!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/27 "2018-10-14T05:34:49Z")
Yes. It’s a great story, but the presentation is a bit cartoonish. It’s a product of its time. ---
**Author:** ![Catsie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c0e974/32.png) [@Catsie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catsie)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/28 "2018-10-14T05:39:36Z")
[quote=“Yodalicious, post:15, topic:822872”] I would like to see a reboot of Highlander franchise. Take elements of the original film (which I love, btw), and add the mythology of the tv show. Me, too. And I’d love to see a new take on the ‘Angel’ show, the one starring David Boreanaz as a vampire, if they could do it without messing with the darkness, no pun intended. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/29 "2018-10-14T13:59:58Z")
A recut of _Monsters Vs Aliens_, with 15-20 minute more character development. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/30 "2018-10-14T14:36:55Z")
[quote=“Catsie, post:28, topic:822872”] > [@Yodalicious](#): > > I would like to see a reboot of Highlander franchise. Take elements of the original film (which I love, btw), and add the mythology of the tv show. > > Me, too. And I’d love to see a new take on the ‘Angel’ show, the one starring David Boreanaz as a vampire, if they could do it without messing with the darkness, no pun intended. It is apparently [in the works.](https://movieweb.com/highlander-reboot-2019-release-date-start-date-script/) ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/31 "2018-10-14T14:42:02Z")
I still want to see Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune.’ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/32 "2018-10-14T14:45:43Z")
Remake “Remo Williams” as an anime. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/33 "2018-10-14T15:04:40Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > I’d like to see a John Waters helmed Pink Flamingos remake. > > Rosie O’Donnell could reprise the Divine role. > > Ryan Reynolds and Katie Holmes could be the evil couple. > > And, of course, Kathleen Turner as Edie the Egg Lady. Admit it, you just want to see Rosie eat dog shit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/34 "2018-10-14T16:25:41Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > There is another _War Of The Worlds_ currently in the works - a period piece. Is this an English version? I think it stars Robert Carlyle (recently of Once Upon A Time), I would LOVE to see this just for him. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/35 "2018-10-14T17:24:42Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Admit it, you just want to see Rosie eat dog shit. 😃 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/36 "2018-10-14T17:48:03Z")
> [@JB99](#): > > I still want to see Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune.’ Me too but I am more than happy to ‘settle’ for Denis Villeneuve trying his hand at it. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/37 "2018-10-14T18:12:13Z")
> [@Flare4roach](#): > > I used to love an old movie from the late 60’s called Valley of Gwangi about cowboys discovering a lost valley with living dinosaurs. When I was a kid, I loved me some dinosaurs. I’m sure with today’s skills this could be a great remake. Oh, I remember that. You and I must be close in age, I was a kid when I saw it on TV. As a girl I kind of had a thing for James Franciscus, but the dinos were good too. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/38 "2018-10-14T18:17:53Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I want to see some of the old matinee serials remade as cable TV series. > _Flash Gordon_ or _Buck Rogers_, done with a _Game of Thrones_ budget. I’d like to see Buck Rogers done as the original book did it. It was all set on Earth. But the PC police wouldn’t allow it now, with the racial issues. Damn it, he wasn’t even called Buck in the book. He was called Tony, as his first name was Anthony. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/39 "2018-10-14T19:48:17Z")
_The Black Cat_ (1934) – First and best teaming of Karloff and Lugosi in story of revenge, satanic worship and necrophilia was significantly altered during and after shooting. I’d like to see the story and characters expanded, along with a more modern sensibility. _The Face Behind the Mask_ (1941) – Peter Lorre is Janos Svabo, an immigrant watchmaker horribly disfigured in a fire. He’s saved from suicide by a petty crook and 20 minutes later, he’s the head of the mob thanks to his skill at plotting crimes. I’d like to see this basic premise play out with a female lead, possibly Nastassja Kinski or Angelina Jolie. _Return to Paradise_ (1953) – One of Gary Cooper’s most obscure movies has him adrift in the South Seas. He finds a beautiful island, but has conflicts with its dickwad-cum-dictator pastor. After knocking up a native girl, Coop splits, but he returns years later and struggles to take responsibility with the (now-mellower) pastor’s help. This is prime Kevin Costner material. _I Sailed to Tahiti with an All-Girl Crew_ (1968) – Love to see this redone (with weightless scenes!) as _I Flew to Alpha Centauri With an All-Girl Crew_. _Death and the Compass_ (1992) – Alex Cox ruins my favorite Borges story. A bigger budget and better casting would be mighty helpful in doing the story properly. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/40 "2018-10-15T02:04:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’d like to see a _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ that was accurate to the novella–an 18-year-old call girl and her gay neighbor and no romantic ending. (Still set in the original time period.) Likewise a version of _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_ that was faithful to the original play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872.md?page=3)