Pst…The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven, not Roger Corman.
I’d probably like to see this. I enjoyed the first one, and I’m fond of remakes.
Purvis & Wade (aka the idiots who gave us the last two James Bond movies) are taking a stab at a serious Casino Royale. If they’re keeping their cartoonish Bond, this’ll be the third in a row that I won’t bother seeing.
The point is it’s a director whose surname starts with a C.
:smack:
I think it would make it more interesting if they make it like a total period piece - slavishly copy the original series a la “the Brady Bunch Movie” with one exception: totatlly go against type and cast someone like Courtney Love as Genie. Just imagine Major Nelson having to deal with a foul-mouthed, gutter-trash genie who screams, hollers and uses every low-down spell she can cast to get her petty little way. It’d make for a heckuva more interesting adaptation than the terminally sappy, belabored “Bewitched” shite from last summer.
Here’s some movies I found on IMDB that I believe are remakes:
39 Steps, The (2006)
Addicted (2006)
Brazilian Job, The (2006)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (2005)
Casino Royale (2006)
Chaos (2006/I)
Creepshow (2006)
Departed, The (2006)
Eight Below (2006)
Elling (2006)
Evil Dead, The (2006)
Eye, The (2006)
Father Knows Best (2005)
Fly, The (2006)
Foxy Brown (2006)
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (2006)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (2006)
Lake House, The (2006)
Last Unicorn, The (2006)
Lavender Hill Mob, The (2006)
Logan’s Run (2006)
My Sassy Girl (2006)
Oldboy (2006)
Porky’s (2006)
Pulse (2006)
Race with the Devil (2006)
Revenge of the Nerds (2006)
Warriors, The (2006)
Of course, many of these are in production and will never actually be made. Also, some of them are English remakes of foreign films, which explains why the title might be unfamiliar.
I also liked the original Yours, Mine and Ours, although it too was a period piece, although the period was the 1960s in this case. And the San Francisco scenery was nice. And I liked the scene from the Henry Fonda/Lucille Ball film when they were buying massive quantities of food at the grocery store. I’d imagine the equivalent scene in the new movie would show them at Costco. (That family seems like one that could use those massive jars of mayo and peanut butter.)
Half of those do not need to be remade. Who the hell thinks that Porky’s needs to be updated?
I for one look forward to a Race with the Devil remake.
Oh, God, NO!
Produced by Howard Stern no less. Get ready for the lesbocam.
Supposedly they’re going to be remaking Dirty Harry with The Rock in the lead. Yeah, that’ll suck.
Maybe it’s slightly sad, but I’m looking forward to the remake of The Last Unicorn. (Link posted above, in the long list.) I have fond memories from my childhood of the original. I love a good children’s movie. (The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden remains one of my favourite movies.)
A remake of Logan’s Run where the cutoff age has been changed from 30 to 21? What would make it perfect is if it were an MTV production.
Besides, after The Island and what I predict will be Charlize Theron’s ‘Catwoman’, Aeon Flux, aren’t there enough crappy distopia sci fi movies?
You’d think they’d learn from the last time someone attempted to remake it.
No one can fill that sort of a role like Cary Grant – not even Tom Hanks. Certainly not Ice Cube. God, just hit my ass with a mallet, spit in my face, and we’ll call it watched, okay?
“The Evil Dead” remake? With Ashton Kutcher taking over for Bruce Campbell as Ash? Please tell me someone is getting Punked…
I can’t tell from your post, but you do know that the age was 21 in the original novel, right?
Ah, my favorite: a movie that’s a sequel to a remake. Which sucked.
I thought they did that and called it American Pie.
I, uh, liked The Money Pit.
I met Bruce Campbell a few months ago, and he said that this isn’t really happening.
What this a sequel to, Shampoo ?