# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/41 "2018-10-15T04:01:32Z")
I’d like to see a new adaptation of _The Dresden Files_. The existing adaptation wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but…faithful it was not. I also wouldn’t mind seeing new adaptations of _The Tommyknockers_ and _Needful Things_, the latter of which keeps being rumored and dropped. Oh, and similar to that a version of _Locke & Key_ that makes it past the pilot: the newest attempt to adapt it just fired everyone but the kid who played Georgie in _It_ and is recasting **all** characters but Bohe… ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/42 "2018-10-15T13:17:40Z")
> [@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. You cannot improve perfection. I wouldn’t mind a new series set in the B5 universe, not a remake of the original. ---
**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 15, 2018, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/43 "2018-10-15T13:27:52Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > 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. Why would you want this? I’ve read the original novel (republished in paperback in the 1960s as **Armageddon 2419** ), and it’s no great shakes. It was one of a series of science fiction adventures with its upper crust/military hero battling the Bad Guys with their futuristic weaponry and getting the girl. The original seems racist because it was – the Han were the Yellow Peril hordes that had succeeded in taking over the earth, and which Rogers was fighting against. (It’s because of the Han, I’m convinced, that we had the Oriental-named and -styled _Ming the merciless_ in that imitator, “Flash” Gordon.) It was ploddingly earthbound, and reminds me of a low-rent John Carter of Mars, or of Ralph Milne Farley’s Cabot of Venus. The comic strip based on it brought it to considerably greater interest by changing things – it changed that patrician Anthony Rogers to the more blue-collar “Buck” Rogers. It got the series off the earth and flying around in space ships. And it introduced\* the hand-held ray gun. (prior to this, ray guns were bigger, cannon-like things. Even in Armageddon 2419). It rapidly moved on to radio, and became – I’m convinced, because of these changes – immensely, wildly popular. So popular that it generated imitators, who also had the cute nickname – “Brick” Bradford (largely forgotten today) and “Flash” Gordon, who in Alex Raymond had a much better artist, so he overtook Buck Rogers in popularity. And, Og knows, we’ve had a Flash Gordon film We also had a Buck Rogers series, which wasn’t terribly faithful to its roots, but updated. And we had Star Wars, which drew pretty heavily on that whole tradition. So what would a Buck Rogers movie give you that you really wanted? \*actually, re-invented. A. Merritt’s novel _The Moon Pool_ actually featured a hand-held cone-shaped “raygun” years earlier, but doesn’t seem to have been a big influence. Buck Rogers’ ray guns, though, were quickly turned into paper guns as product promotions, and later as BB guns by the Daisy people. They not only re-invented that hand-held ray gun, they popularized it. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/44 "2018-10-15T16:04:07Z")
I would like to see _Babylon 5_ re-done, with all 5 seasons made in a single shoot. That way, you would not have to re-write major story-lines when a key actor left. Also, you would not have to rush to get the main story finished in Season 4, leaving Season 5 to limp along with the secondary stories. “War of the Telepaths” would have been decent backup story, but it was not interesting enough to be a main story. Also, it would have made a lot more sense if it had been about Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters, not Elizabeth Lochley and Lyta Alexander. (Or, better yet, if Lyta had been there for all 5 seasons.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/45 "2018-10-15T16:42:51Z")
I would like to see the _World War Z_ novel redone as a fake documentary. Same structure as the book, in fact. The movie version of it was bad. I don’t care how much money it made - it was not true to the spirit. It didn’t need Brad Pitt; it needed ordinary-looking non-star actors, because the zombie plague attacked and ordinary people had to react to it. When I am an eccentric billionaire I will make it happen, like Howard Hughes and _The Conqueror_. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/46 "2018-10-15T17:17:30Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > 2.) _I, Robot_ done faithfully to Asimov, ideally using Harlan Ellison’s script (and lots of CGI) Since this was originally a collection of basically independent short stories, I’d like to see a television series version of I, Robot. Perhaps on HBO, where it can get the budget it deserves (and which I already subscribe to). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/47 "2018-10-15T17:28:54Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Here are a few I’d like, as I think I’ve said before: > > 1.) A version of _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_ that didn’t wimp out, wasn’t a star vehicle, and managed to actually capture Twain’s off-kilter wit. > > 2.) _I, Robot_ done faithfully to Asimov, ideally using Harlan Ellison’s script (and lots of CGI) > > 3.) Heinlein’s _The Puppet Masters_ done in its proper period setting, with a good sense of the proper eeriness. > > 5.) H.P. Lovecraft’s _The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_. done straight. Yankee got really, really dark at the end. That would be great. Too soon, but yes, someday. Horror is too banal nowadays, the horror fans want gore, torture, slashers, etc, not a slow mystery build into horror. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/48 "2018-10-15T17:32:23Z")
> [@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.) Holly isn’t a call girl. wiki" _Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs and restaurants, and give her money and expensive presents; she hopes to marry one of them. According to Capote, Golightly is not a prostitute but an “American geisha”.[2]_ And I dont remember the narrator being gay. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/49 "2018-10-15T17:33:51Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > There has been talk of Chris Hemsworth playing Doc Savage. With a decent director and decent writers, it might be good. I agree. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/50 "2018-10-15T17:35:34Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The Lord of the Rings prequel I’d like to see (we’ll forget The Hobbit ever happened) The Hobbit film had many great part. The first film is quite good and the White Council vs the Necromancer was fantastic. But too many over the top battle scenes, etc. Would have been better as two films, not three. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/51 "2018-10-15T17:42:33Z")
> [@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. > > Sent from my HTC U11 using Tapatalk > [@epbrown01](#): > > That sounds cool. Me, I have a morbid curiosity about the inevitable remake of _The Matrix._ It’s almost been 20 years now, so in the next decade or so I expect someone will want to give it a go. A Highlander remake/reboot has been in the works for about 10 years. It looks like a script has been accepted and the film is presently in pre-production with a tentative release date of 2019. There is also a Logan’s Run remake on the horizon. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872/52 "2018-10-16T01:11:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Holly isn’t a call girl. wiki" Holly (age 18–19) is a country girl turned New York café society girl. As such, she has no job and lives by socializing with wealthy men, who take her to clubs and restaurants, and give her money and expensive presents; she hopes to marry one of them. According to Capote, Golightly is not a prostitute but an “American geisha”.[2] > > And I dont remember the narrator being gay. [The first Google hit for Breakfast at Tiffany’s gay.](https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/06/holly-golightly-is-a-call-girl-and-other-revelations-about-breakfast-at-tiffanys) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remakes-you-actually-want-to-see/822872.md?page=2)