# What movie would you like to see remade, but better? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [July 12, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072 "2020-07-12T00:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/262 "2020-09-28T15:06:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > _Rick and Morty_ also did a FV thing. _Futurama_ as well. Ah, yes, as to _RAM_, I’d forgotten that - but it didn’t have all the espionage/urgency of the original. Didn’t see the _Futurama_ one. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/263 "2020-09-28T17:16:50Z")
In a preface, Steinbeck says that he wrote it so that it could be easily adapted to film, but I note that all the film and TV adaptations had screenplays by someone else. Steinbeck himself wrote a stage version, which was produced as written. There’s also a radio play, written by someone else. I’ve listened to it as an audiobook, which is, of course, completely faithful, since it’s Steinbeck’s own words from the book. > **[Of Mice and Men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. > Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences working alongside migrant farm workers as a teenager in the 1910s, before the arrival of the O... ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/264 "2020-09-28T17:50:46Z")
I kind of wonder if they could remake [“Kelly’s Heroes”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly's_Heroes) and set it in Afghanistan somehow. If they cast it right, it could be a whole lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![urbanredneck2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5f8ce5/32.png) [@urbanredneck2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urbanredneck2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/265 "2020-09-28T20:36:27Z")
Could the classic movie “Casablanca” be redone? The movie is great because of the intense story and the acting of Humprey Bogart and Ingred Bergman (and several others) plus the WW2 backdrop like the bar singing “La Marseiles” and the great lines like “Here’s looking at you kid” and “We’ll always have Paris”. Could it? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/266 "2020-09-28T21:59:51Z")
They have tried. Twice. _Caboblanco_, starring Charles Bronson, and _Havana_, starring Robert Redford. The tries were extremely unsuccessful. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/267 "2020-09-28T22:14:41Z")
_Barb Wire_ (1996) is another _Casablanca_ remake that was less than successful. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/268 "2020-09-28T23:00:45Z")
> [@urbanredneck2](#): > > Could the classic movie “Casablanca” be redone? Save that for the _“Classic films they should never remake”_ thread… Casablanca, The Goonies, Galaxy Quest, The Big Lebowski… and of course The Princess Bride. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/269 "2020-09-28T23:21:09Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I kind of wonder if they could remake [“Kelly’s Heroes”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly's_Heroes) and set it in Afghanistan somehow. If they cast it right, it could be a whole lot of fun. I always thought **Three Kings** with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg was a bit of a re-do of **Kelly’s Heroes**. Not as good, or as fun, but same kind of plot. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/270 "2020-09-28T23:32:15Z")
> [@urbanredneck2](#): > > Could the classic movie “Casablanca” be redone? They made it into a TV show in the ‘80s too, starring David “Hutch” Soul as Rick Blaine. It was as terrible as you would imagine it would be, and lasted five episodes. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/271 "2020-09-28T23:47:12Z")
The Tv series was quite good. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/272 "2020-09-28T23:48:12Z")
More or a parody, methinks. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/273 "2020-09-28T23:50:08Z")
I just tried to watch the “sequel” to The Big Lebowski- turned it off after 15 minutes. Horrible hateful people. “ **The Jesus Rolls**.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/274 "2020-09-28T23:56:27Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The Tv series was quite good. Perhaps my memory is fuzzy. One of Rick’s classic lines in the film was “I stick my neck out for no one.” And he really _meant_ that - until Ilsa walked into his gin joint, which was what made the ensuing events so extraordinary. I recall TV Rick repeatedly asserting “I stick my neck out for no one,” and then proceeding to stick his neck out for _everyone_, to the point of ridiculousness. I wonder if the show is available to view anywhere? It might be interesting to revisit it and see if it’s what I remember. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/275 "2020-09-28T23:58:22Z")
I was talking about the **Highlander** TV series. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/276 "2020-09-29T00:02:12Z")
Whoops, sorry. Missed the little reply arrow on your post. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/277 "2020-09-29T00:40:05Z")
Them adding in the refugees plot in Three Kings was completely counter to the point of Kelly’s Heroes in my book, since the entire point of it was that it was just a heist movie and nobody really had a connection to the war at large. If Kelly and his crew had to save a bunch of Jewish concentration camp victims at the end, that would have really hurt the overall irrelevant tone of the movie. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/278 "2020-09-29T12:14:52Z")
There was also a 1955 TV series _Casablanca_, ostensibly based on the original play _Everybody Goes to Rick’s_ > **[Casablanca (1955 TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(1955_TV_series))** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Casablanca is an hour-long American television series, in the genre of spying and intrigue during the Cold War, which was broadcast on ABC between September 27, 1955 and April 24, 1956 as part of the wheel series Warner Bros. Presents. The third of 20 filmed shows produced for ABC, between 1955 and 1963, by Warner Bros. Television, under the supervision of executive producer William T. Orr, Casablanca is also the only one among those shows to be s... [http://www.vincasa.com/indextvseries.html](http://www.vincasa.com/indextvseries.html) I think I’ve got an episode on my deluxe DVD of Casablanca. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/279 "2020-09-29T17:27:32Z")
Oh another one is Starship Troopers. While I thoroughly approve of Verhoven satirizing the facisty undertones in Heinlein’s novel, it should be possible to do that without turning it into an episode of Beverly Hills 90210. Eso given the current political climate I think another version is overdue. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/280 "2020-09-29T17:47:58Z")
Yeah, I considered “Three Kings”, but the whole part with the refugees changes the film dramatically. Enough so, that I wouldn’t consider it a remake. > [@griffin1977](#): > > Oh another one is Starship Troopers I think “Starship Troopers” would be a good one to remake. Maybe not “remake” exactly, but re-adapt. I think rather than a satire of fascism that had very little to do with the actual book events, characters or philosophical commentary, the re-adaptation should be made as faithful as possible to the book. There’s a lot of room to delve into the nature of violence and the nature of citizenship as described in the book, without making it satire or absurd. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072/281 "2020-09-30T02:17:57Z")
Yes, and ya gotta have powered body armor (hired the _Iron Man_ sfx team to do it right), and the talking ten-second bombs. Ya _gotta!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-would-you-like-to-see-remade-but-better/915072.md?page=15)