# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/61 "2005-07-13T17:28:17Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > It’s real savage horrorshow, with lots of ultra-violence and a bolshy bit of of the old in-out-in-out. If you’ve not got the yarbles to slooshie such pictures, it’ll make yer glassies pop right out of yer gulliver and fag and shag and fash you. Perhaps you’d best not viddie it, least not without sharpening yourself up with a bit of the moloko-plus and some Ludwig Van. > > Stranger What _he_ said. But if you do develop the varbles (and you call yourself **dare\_devil007\_**?) it’s a pretty good flick. You’re on your own with the vocabulary, but it’s nothing you can’t pick up from context, especially since **Stranger** used most of it above. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/62 "2005-07-13T17:49:28Z")
> [@IMDB](#): > > ‘Sunset Boulevard’ To Be Remade As a Movie Musical > In yet another case of a film going to the stage then going back to film again, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful company has confirmed that it will produce a film version of Lloyd Webber’s musical version of Sunset Boulevard with Glenn Close reprising her stage role as Norma Desmond, the role originally made famous by Gloria Swanson in the 1950 classic. The BBC reported today (Tuesday) that the new film will have a budget of $60 million and is expected to be released during the Christmas holiday season next year. I got nothing else… ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/63 "2005-07-13T18:27:01Z")
> [@brownie55](#): > > I got nothing else… What else could there be. We need to evacuate Manhattan Island, erect 50 foot containment walls, mind all bridges and waterways, and have the perimeter patrolled by heavily armed guards, so that The Webber can’t pollute the rest of the population with his abominable musical adaptations of good stories. Let him make “Escape from New York: The Musical” in Manhattan Island National Security Penitentury. Stranger ---
**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, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/64 "2005-07-13T19:00:48Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > It’s real savage horrorshow, with lots of ultra-violence and a bolshy bit of of the old in-out-in-out. If you’ve not got the yarbles to slooshie such pictures, it’ll make yer glassies pop right out of yer gulliver and fag and shag and fash you. Perhaps you’d best not viddie it, least not without sharpening yourself up with a bit of the moloko-plus and some Ludwig Van. > > Stranger That was just…awesome. Makes me want to read the novel again. Someone mentioned Soylent Green, and I think that could be an excellent remake. Omega Man would be another good one. A lot of sci-fi from the late 70’s/early 80’s is getting redone. [Flash Gordon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421201/combined) is already in the works. Stephen Sommers is writing, so I’m reserving judgement. I fear the essential fromage will be lost. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/65 "2005-07-13T19:14:59Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > That was just…awesome. Makes me want to read the novel again. > > Someone mentioned Soylent Green, and I think that could be an excellent remake. Omega Man would be another good one. > > A lot of sci-fi from the late 70’s/early 80’s is getting redone. [Flash Gordon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421201/combined) is already in the works. Stephen Sommers is writing, so I’m reserving judgement. I fear the essential fromage will be lost. Supposedly that’s been shelved so he can do an update of _When World’s Collide_. ---
**Author:** ![Camus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@Camus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Camus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/66 "2005-07-13T20:23:06Z")
**The Clonus Horror** and **The Exorcist**. I can’t imagine anyone re-making or attempting to revamp those movies. EVER. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/67 "2005-07-13T22:11:26Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > Well, actually it was a partial remake. They recreated the prison break and events leading up to it, added different characters (and eliminated others), then tacked on a stupid vengence ending. I remember catching this thing once on the televisor during the scene where (in the original) McQueen sticks his head out of the ground and sees that they’re thirty feet short. “Great,” I say, “I’ll sit down and watch this for a bit.” The shock of me life awaits when I see people who are not McQueen, Garner, Pleasence, Colburn, Attenbourough, et cetera escaping. “What,” I exclaim, “the bloody hell is this, eh?” > > Terrible. > > Stranger Crap. Now that I read that, you are, of course right. I had completely forgotten about the partial remake in the beginning, and even after you’ve jogged my memory, I still can’t recall much of anything about it. Shows just how totally forgettable that whole thing was. _The Great Escape_ is definitely a movie that is as close to perfect as you could hope to get. A remake could never even come close to equaling it. Let’s see, Tom Cruise as Hilts, Ben Afleck as Hendly, Hugh Grant as Big X, Pauly Shore as Ives . . . damn, where’s that vomiting smiley when you need it? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/68 "2005-07-14T06:17:02Z")
> [@Camus](#): > > **The Clonus Horror** and **The Exorcist**. I can’t imagine anyone re-making or attempting to revamp those movies. EVER. Uh, I take it you haven’t seen the premise of [this movie](http://imdb.com/title/tt0399201/), have you? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/69 "2005-07-14T06:47:09Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > Omega Man would be another good one. That came within a hairbreadth of being remade around 1997 as **I Am Legend** (the original title of the short story on which it was based). Arnold Schwarzenegger was to star and Ridley Scott was to direct. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/70 "2005-07-14T12:22:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **Forbidden Planet** ’s not **The Tempest** by a long shot, even if they stole the setup from Shakespeare, and even have a correspondence of the characters. > > There was a musical based on the film, but from what I’ve heard, I’m glad it wasn’t filmed. _Return To The Forbidden Planet_ kicks ass, and I say this as someone who’s no fan of rock musicals. (It’s "return"ing to the story, not the planet, for obvious reasons). Still I agree, it wouldn’t work as a film. ---
**Author:** ![Cynical\_Optimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Cynical\_Optimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cynical_Optimist)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/71 "2005-07-14T15:17:42Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > They’d better not remake **Rocky Horror**! :eek: Not a remake, but there was a [sequel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_Treatment) made and a [second sequel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Old_Queen) planned. Now let’s see if anyone is brave enough to take a stab at _Showgirls, Gigli,_ or _Glitter._ ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-havent-they-remade-yet-and-shouldnt/312137/72 "2005-07-14T18:09:28Z")
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