I’d like to see a Michael Bay-less Transformers, with robots that looked familar, no she-plastic, and less tip-toeing around the suburban lawn.
But, I’d really like the world to forget the recent monstrosity called The Seeker, so that they could actually make a good The Dark is Rising.
It’s only blasphemy if you would force all of the rest of us to view them that way.
No kidding. I liked the movies, and tried to read the books, and didn’t even recognize him.
And KtK, I’d never force anyone to watch them. I just like color!
Reality Chuck writes:
I’ve said several times on this Board that the BBC adaptation (which has run on American PBS) seems to be quite faithful to the book. Unfortunately, AFAIK, it’s not commercially available (but I might be wrong. My copy is taped from TV)
)The site shows a “BBC Video” box cover, but I don’t know how available it is.
Agree with Starship Troopers and The Puppet Masters (which wasn’t completely awful, but was worse than it should have been)
I, Robot. I think it should’ve been done with Harlan Ellison’s script, which had Asimov’s blessing, althgough others on the Board don’t like that. But it needs to be redone, in any case.
From the Earth to the Moon – the film version of this is atrocious.
War of the Worlds – for God’s sake, do it right, as a period piece.
A Connecticut Yankeee in King Arthur’s Court – not one filmed version, out of half a dozen, resembles in any way Twain’s story. Not even Will Rogers’ version.
Rocket Ship Galileo – it’s the least of the Heinlein juveniles, but it’s still livelier than the vfilm ostensibly made from it, Destination Moon. (Even though that had a screnplay by Heinlein)
Jules Verne’s In Search of the Castaways – the Disney version, sadly, isn’t all that faithful. Two Russian versions are said to be much better. The music from the older one is still very popular in Russia. If we can’t reshoot this, can we at least dub the Russian versions and release them here?
Anything by John Varley – you’d never guess he was an acclaimed science fiction writer from the filmed versions of Millenium, Nightflyers, and Sandkings.
Nightfall – after two versions, Asimov deserves a film that actually bears some resemblance to his story.
Immortality, Inc. (AKA Immortality Delivered by Robert Sheckley. The filmed version with Mick Jagger and Anthony Hopkins (!!!) bears no resemblance to his book. For that matter, they ought to do his The Status Civilization as a film. I still maintain they ripped off big gobs of this for Total Recall.
Oh, yeah. Not that the original ABC TV-movie was bad (I haven’t seen the British TV adaptations), but I’d love to see a big buidget movie treatment of Robert H. Van Gulik’s Judge Dee series. There was a rumor at one point that Paul Veerhoeven was doing a Judge Dee film, but it was mistaken, or he changed his mind. I’d still like to see it.
I’d like to another film about the Hindenburg, but it doesn’t have to be a remake of The Hindenburg (the 70s fim w/ Anne Bancroft).
Except that pretty much every Michael Bay movie would not work as anything other than a Michael Bay movie. You either like big, loud action flicks like Transformers, The Rock or Armegeddon or you don’t.
By the way, he’s remaking Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Which just reitterates some earlier points:
DON’T remake movies that are classics. The remake will always suck. Was there a need to do a remake of Psycho? Or The Omen? OR Planet of the Apes? Or a TV version of The Shining? No. It’s just the same fucking movie with different characters. Or it’s just plain worse when you try to outdo the “YOU MANIACS!! YOU BLEW IT UP!! DAMN YOU TO HELL!!” ending with a crash landing in front of the Ape Lincoln Memorial.
DON’T remake movies with iconic characters made famous by a particular actor. ie Robert England IS Freddy Krueger. Why not remake Rocky? Or Scarface?
DON’T remake movies that are less than 30 years old (ideally at least 40 years old). Gene Wilder is Willy Wonky in my childhood memories. Not Johnny Depp.
DON’T keep remaking the same freaking superhero movies. Batman got a pass because between two directors making the same movie, Tim Burton looses. We don’t need another crappy Punisher film. Hulk is not a compelling character people can identify with (and he never says “Hulk SMASH!!” anyway). We’ve already seen Superman vs Lex Luthor. Fortunately for Captain America, no one remembers the 1990 film (just as they won’t remember the 2011 film).
Basically, just remake old, crappy movies that no one remembers. Movies like Oceans Eleven, The Italian Job or The Thomas Crown Affair.
Ooo, good idea. And give them an actual script this time rather than making them improvise their dialogue based on situations they run into out in the woods. Good improv is hard, and these newbie actors fell back on saying “f*ck” a whole lot as their way of showing they were stressed/scared.
You also won’t (hopefully) get problems like a plane showing up in the sky during a shot without them even reacting to it and debating about whether that could point them the way out of the forest.
I think if they remade The Hulk but this time they…nah, can’t even type it with a straight face. 
I would like to see a remake of Tron, but with current technology. (And no “Bit” or “Byte” or whatever that stupid thing was). I’m picturing the MCP being a WoW server or something.
The amusing thing about this is, Pierre Boulle may agree with you. His original ending to the book the 1968 film was based on is much more along the “Ape Lincoln Memorial” lines than Sterling’s “You maniacs” ending, but according to what IMDb’s trivia page calls a “rumor,” Boulle preferred Sterling’s ending.
Day of the Triffids to be remade by BBC (Again!).
Day of the Triffids (BBC DVD) region 2 though.
How about The Getaway, with Jim Thompson’s original ending?
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Judge Dredd!
And it appears that they are.
I adored the 70s movie Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? with Shelley Winters, but it doesn’t seem to have been a very big hit. Or at least, I don’t know too many people who have heard of it.
Anyway, I think a remade version with someone stellar in the lead (like say Toni Collette) and any director but Tim Burton, this could be really dark and winnow its way up everyone’s new favorite horror movie list. And make us ask the question of why there aren’t more films made about Hansel and Gretel. 
I’d like to see what the Coen brothers or maybe the Nolans would do with The Last of Sheila or The Conversation.
Sorry Cal, but it is a George R.R. Martin story. Obligatory Wikipedia Link (OWL)
BTW, you know that The Incredible Shrinking Man and Robinson Crusoe on Mars are both now available on DVD ?
The Lord of the Rings
What?? 
Tom Scud, did you intentionally change my capital letters?
Yes, but it has to have a budget.
I haven’t seen any, but a good one would be special. I love this book.
That wouldn’t be a remake, that would be a movie based on the novel.
North by Northwest. The original movie was great: it had excellent pacing and a good plot. But I would’ve enjoyed it more if it was set in the present day. I think the original story would adapt well to the present day, plus, special effects have improved since then. The entire time I watched that movie I was thinking to myself “I want to know what happens next (and a modern version of this would make bank)!”.