# What movies HAVEN'T they remade yet (and shouldn't)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137 "2005-07-12T06:01:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/1 "2005-07-12T06:01:50Z")
Is there anything left? Anything that was 1) really bad to begin with and should not be brought back to life. 2) halfway decent but no point in rehashing. 3)A classic that should not be fucked with. Whatever the catagory, somebody’s going to bring it back, rather than strain themselves having a new idea… So…what haven’t they done yet? What’s the worst idea ever? You get a prize if they do indeed make it in the next 5 years.\* \*Really bad ideas for television shows that should not be made into movies but probably will be, also count. But as that’s too easy you won’t be eligible for the final drawing. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/2 "2005-07-12T07:44:32Z")
I feel reasonably confident that even the worst of the Hollywood vultures won’t ever remake _Gone With The Wind_. They already screwed enough with the legacy with _Scarlett_ (and yeah I know the Mitchell estate authorised it; still not an excuse). ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/3 "2005-07-12T08:38:35Z")
I doubt anyone would ever touch **2001** , **Blade Runner** or **Soylent Green**. That said they remade Planet of the Apes. I expect a remake of **Logan’s Run**. The story is perfect for Hollywood to screw up. It’s got a love story, bad guy vs good guy running about, and room to write in a plucky robot sidekick to sell toys. They can cut costs by CGI-ing half the movie. When you think about it someone could take a perfectly groovy 70’d sci-fi movie and rip it apart. Quick, someone call Lucas. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/4 "2005-07-12T08:59:26Z")
_The Great Escape_ - there’s just no way they could remake this movie and not make it suck by accidentally inserting some stupid anachronism like something with an LED on it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/5 "2005-07-12T09:20:43Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > I expect a remake of **Logan’s Run**. [Already in the works](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/combined?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTF8cT1sb2dhbnMgcnVufGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=2;ft=20;fm=1). ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/6 "2005-07-12T09:54:06Z")
I would hope that **Casablanca** is never remade. Some films just need to be old. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/7 "2005-07-12T11:00:39Z")
> [@Sage Rat](#): > > I would hope that **Casablanca** is never remade. Some films just need to be old. Haven’t seen Barbed Wire? 😉 ---
**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 12, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/8 "2005-07-12T11:37:54Z")
I fully expect there to be _Rawhide The Movie_ sooner or later. Clint Eastwood will direct. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2005, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/9 "2005-07-12T11:50:38Z")
> [@](#): > > The Great Escape - there’s just no way they could remake this movie and not make it suck by accidentally inserting some stupid anachronism like something with an LED on it. > **[The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (TV Movie 1988) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095252/)** > > The Great Escape II: The Untold Story: Directed by Jud Taylor, Paul Wendkos. With Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Tony Denison, Charles Haid. Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis. Interesting in that they dramatized the poprtions of Paul Brickhill’s book that weren’t treated in the original movie. Boring, though. Prison break movies shouldn’t be boring. Movies they shouldn’t remake: I agree with **Casablanca** (A ripoff of the basic plot’s not the same as a remake) and **Gone With the Wind** and **2001**. \*\*Robinson Crusoe on Mars Forbidden Planet The Day the Earth Stood Still West Side Story Fiddler on the Roof\*\* I still can’t believe that anyone would remake **Psycho, a Man for All Seasons, Seven Samurai, and Rashomon**. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/10 "2005-07-12T12:43:10Z")
**Barbarella** Of course, a remake would be so bad I would have to see it. Maybe they could get Simon LeBon to play Duran Duran. (Tee-Hee-Hee) ---
**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:** [July 12, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/11 "2005-07-12T13:02:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Barbarella Of course, a remake would be so bad I would have to see it. Maybe they could get Simon LeBon to play Duran Duran. (Tee-Hee-Hee) Actually, I’d _love_ to see this remade. The effects were so cheesy and the acting so bad (deliberately, I assume), that it was hard to see the original satiric comic strip in the film. Jane Fonda was great (as were Milo and Law), but I’m sure we can find someone to take their places. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/12 "2005-07-12T13:11:15Z")
Donald Duck in MathMagic Land. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/13 "2005-07-12T13:19:42Z")
Gone with the Wind, of course. Ben Hur. I’m afraid someone will yield to temptation and redo the chariot race and the galley battle. Citizen Kane What director would want to try to improve on what all the critics think is the best directing ever? ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/14 "2005-07-12T13:26:06Z")
Mad Max and/or the Road Warrior. These would be Americanized and lose any of the cultural underpinnings that made them (at the time) so unique. See beyond Thunderdome for an idea of how the franchise can be messed up then double the suckatude. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/15 "2005-07-12T13:34:55Z")
I thought that **Casablanca** had already been remade with David Soul as Rick. Or was this so bad that it doesn’t count? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/16 "2005-07-12T13:37:26Z")
_The Yin and Yang of Mr. Go_ _Cannibal Women in the Avacado Jungle of Death_ _Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine_ Because, honestly, why? ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/17 "2005-07-12T13:48:28Z")
If they remake _Say Anything_, I am officially old and pissed. If they cast Lohan and Kutcher, I may apply for a gun license. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/18 "2005-07-12T13:51:57Z")
A Clockwork Orange They’d take out the tits and make it PG-13. ---
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/19 "2005-07-12T15:09:32Z")
**Zardoz**. Without Sean Connery, what would be the point? ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/20 "2005-07-12T15:16:11Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Movies they shouldn’t remake: > > I agree with **Casablanca** (A ripoff of the basic plot’s not the same as a remake) and **Gone With the Wind** and **2001**. > \ > Forbidden Planet There have been two series based on Casablanca. And the Bard’s play has been remade quite a few times since 1612. **kingpengvin** - When Mad Max was first released in the US, Mel Gibson was dubbed, because his Australian accent was too thick. Ironic, since he’s born in the US. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137.md?page=2)