# What remakes would you like to see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131 "2005-11-21T20:07:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/1 "2005-11-21T20:07:59Z")
Inspired by this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345921](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=345921) What movies would you like to see remade? (Having already been remade more than once does not disqualify a movie from consideration.) And what changes, if any, would you suggest for the remake? And who would you cast? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/2 "2005-11-21T20:11:12Z")
David Cronenberg needs to remake Howard Hawks’s _Monkey Business._ Tim Burton needs to remake _Arsenic and Old Lace._ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/3 "2005-11-21T20:27:11Z")
I keep sorta hoping someone will remake both Silent Running, and Logan’s Run. Actually I think Silent Running still stands pretty well on its own, but it would be fun to see a more modern re-imagining of Logan’s Run. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/4 "2005-11-21T20:36:20Z")
As I’ve said before, I’d _love_ to see a remake of **The Day the Earth Stood Still** , but faithful to the book this time. No Metalunan Mutants. No rewriting the plot to salve human vanity. No planets with holes in the crust, or turning into suns. I’d like to see **Puppet Masters** remade properly, too. And **I, Robot** , but I don’t think that’s gonna happen. I’d like to see Mark Twain’s **A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court** remade as something that’s not a star vehicle, and a little closer to his vision. Fredric Brown’s **Arena** , which has been ripped off numerous times. They gave him credit for the Star Trek episode with that title, but it’s not a good adaptation at all, (I’ve heard they were working on a similar script, and onl later found out about Brown’s story). With CGI, you could do a helluva job with this. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/5 "2005-11-21T21:00:05Z")
“Ghost Busters” Yep… I said it… I’d love to see GB redone. Dave Chapelle, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and (although I am not that big of a fan of hers) Sarah Silverman. Heather Grahm in Sigourney Weaver part. OR I’d liketo see them do a sequel based on Ackroyd’s original idea of setting it in the future where ghosts are a common nuisance and the GB are as common as exterminators. I’d like to see one of Leone’s westerns remade staying true to the roots. One Upon a Time in the West I think could be done by Tarantino. Harrison Ford or Tom Hanks as Frank, Samuel L Jackson as Cheyene and some youngish actor like Ledger or Gyllenal as Harmonica. (Did you know that in the 70s, a sequel to Good the Bad and Ugly was almost made with Wallach, Von Cleef and Kyle Eastwood) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/6 "2005-11-21T21:19:21Z")
_Queen Kelly_. (Do movies that were never _totally_ made count?) It’s a great story, and absolutely required in order to “get” much of _Sunset Boulevard_. I’d also like to see a big splashy production of _Those Damn Yankees_ – with Bjork as Lola or summat. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/7 "2005-11-21T21:30:22Z")
**Day of the Triffids**. If they followed the book at all, they’d have the perfect SF thriller. I’d also like to see a decent version of **Bye Bye Birdie** – the Dick van Dyke version rewrote the script and made it stupid, while the TV version had Jason Alexander :rolleyes: ---
**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:** [November 21, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/8 "2005-11-21T21:37:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Day of the Triffids. If they followed the book at all, they’d have the perfect SF thriller. It’s been done, but unfortunately it’s not available on DVd or tape, as far as I know. I taped mine off PBS: > **[The Day of the Triffids (TV Mini Series 1981) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081850/)** > > The Day of the Triffids: With John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne, Jonathan Newth. When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/9 "2005-11-22T01:06:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > As I’ve said before, I’d _love_ to see a remake of **The Day the Earth Stood Still** , but faithful to the book this time. No Metalunan Mutants. No rewriting the plot to salve human vanity. No planets with holes in the crust, or turning into suns. Unh… **Cal** , I’m sure you mean _This Island Earth_, right ? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/10 "2005-11-22T01:14:43Z")
_ **NONE!!!** _ Can you gather I’m sick and tired of Hollywood’s apparent inability to create anything new anymore? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/11 "2005-11-22T01:21:19Z")
Assuming that they’d still count as “remakes” after we all decide to pretend that the first botches/desecrations never happened: _I: Robot_ and _Starship Troopers_. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/12 "2005-11-22T01:22:53Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > It’s a great story, and absolutely required in order to “get” much of _Sunset Boulevard_. Speaking of, _Sunset Blvd_ (but kept as a period piece because there’s nothing that really translates to silent movies as an obsolete art form). It’d be a great comeback (sorry… “return”) role for a 70s/80s superstar. Even the musical wouldn’t be terrible (and a Max/Norma prequel could be downright eerie). This thread has come up before, incidentally. I always answer _Bell, Book & Candle_, although this time I’ll add [Desk Set](http://imdb.com/title/tt0050307/) (this time actually _using_ the term “Reference Librarians” as a mega-database vendor attempts to convince a CNN like news network that this system will make anybody able to find information on anything). It would still have a pivotal question about the King of the Watusi, however. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/13 "2005-11-22T01:26:51Z")
_Plan 9 From Outer Space_ as a serious horror film. On second thought…nah! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/14 "2005-11-22T01:30:30Z")
“Son of Sinbad,” Howard Hughes’ Arabian Nights adventure for Dad, made back in the fifties and featuring a bevy of hot babes and tons of sexy dancing. Remade with modern constuming, or lack of it, and modern ethnic dance, but a 50s attention to plotting and set design. A Howard Hughes budget wouldn’t hurt, either. Get every hottie actress in Hollywood that can dance in on it … should be about half a dozen. And of, yeah, the requisite slavegirl auction scene, done with naked or at least mostly naked slavegirls being auctioned. And if a slavegirl or princess or three were to get captured and chained up in a dungeon, well, that would be OK, too. ---
**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:** [November 22, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/15 "2005-11-22T01:44:41Z")
Kerry Conran _(Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow)_, who probably needs work now, ought to consider redoing some of the early talkie genre called “tech-fi”. This featured outlandish projects like tunnels under the sea (_Transatlantic Tunnel_) or humungous floating airfields made of concrete (_F.P.1_). The trouble is, they were always dull and very stingy on the special effects. Not a problem with CGI, good casting and a snappy script. _Desk Set?_ Nothing with Kate the Great in it should ever be remade. This almost defines “diminishing returns.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/16 "2005-11-22T02:07:01Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > I keep sorta hoping someone will remake both Silent Running, and Logan’s Run. > > Actually I think Silent Running still stands pretty well on its own, but it would be fun to see a more modern re-imagining of Logan’s Run. I give you [\*Logan’s Run](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/). I’d like to see a decent (which means it’ll never happen) remake of Fritz Lang’s _Metropolis_. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/17 "2005-11-22T02:22:35Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I’d like to see a decent (which means it’ll never happen) remake of Fritz Lang’s _Metropolis_. I can easily imagine a decent update of _Metropolis_ – but I think what assures its non-happening is the paucity of investers eager to finance a socialist allegory. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/18 "2005-11-22T02:30:38Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > I give you [\*Logan’s Run](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0402344/). > > I’d like to see a decent (which means it’ll never happen) remake of Fritz Lang’s _Metropolis_. How ironic is it that it’s being renewed… I mean, remade… 30 years after the original? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/19 "2005-11-22T13:44:01Z")
Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Maybe this time they could actually film the book as it was written. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131/20 "2005-11-22T14:52:14Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Memoirs of an Invisible Man. Maybe this time they could actually film the book as it was written. Amen, sister. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-remakes-would-you-like-to-see/332131.md?page=2)