# What films or TV shows are (inevitably) going to be remade? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228 "2005-07-12T20:07:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/21 "2005-07-13T17:07:50Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I hear a remake of “Logan’s Run” is in the works (From the trailer, I tyhought “The Island” was it, but I guess not) I think “The Island” is “parts: the clonus horror.” God help us all… ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/22 "2005-07-13T17:13:56Z")
For those of you clamoring for Voltron, Ultraman, Sailor Moon, or any of the others, there are a couple of live action “trailers” for Battle of the Planets _aka_ G-Force _aka_ Gatchaman _aka_ Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. They were done in 2000 as part of an internet campaign in Japan, and star members of the Japanese boy-band SMAP (which has rotating members, a la Menudo). There was never a movie made, but from the looks of the “trailers”, it would have been _very_ cool. You can find them, if you know where to peer. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/23 "2005-07-13T20:06:54Z")
> [@detop](#): > > \*\* My Mother the Car - the Motion Picture\*\* I could have sworn that this had been moviefied. It turns out I was thinking of the cinematic masterpiece that was **Car 54, Where Are You?** ---
**Author:** ![Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@Nanook\_of\_the\_North\_Shore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanook_of_the_North_Shore)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/24 "2005-07-13T22:49:21Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > You know that’s a video game right? > I don’t think it counts. Oops, no I didn’t. :smack: I remembered seeing the movie, and could have sworn it was an american version I saw. I checked the IMDB, and saw the date and the fact that it was american and didn’t read the rest that closely. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/25 "2005-07-20T01:42:45Z")
> [@Fern Forest](#): > > The Smurfs. Reimagined maybe? [SNAP!](http://cinescape.com/0/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&this_cat=Movies&action=page&type_id=&cat_id=270338&obj_id=49215) I wasted my powers on this? Damn, I should have played lotto. ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/26 "2005-07-20T02:13:09Z")
I have this horrible vision. **Friends: the Movie** , 20-25 years from now. Featuring a cast of flavor-of-the-months that make the original cast look like the Barrymores. A broken, old-before-his-time Matthew Perry makes a cameo, slurring his lines as a wisecracking building super or some such nonsense. That is my vision _I am become death, destroyer of worlds…_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/27 "2005-07-20T02:17:48Z")
> [@Torgo](#): > > I have this horrible vision. > > **Friends: the Movie** …\* The master will not be pleased. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/28 "2005-07-20T13:35:24Z")
Sooner or later we’ll see a _Rawhide_ movie, probably directed by Clint Eastwood. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228/29 "2005-07-20T14:06:15Z")
> [@FisherQueen](#): > > I think “The Island” is “parts: the clonus horror.” > > God help us all… Not so much a “remake” as a “ripoff” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-films-or-tv-shows-are-inevitably-going-to-be-remade/312228.md?page=1)