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I'll need to find them first. I can certainly do that when I get to them.
Movies that should be remade.
I was like oh wow what a great thread....and then I saw your choices.
Die Hard and Jaws should never be remade, you can do a prequel to Jaws based on the Indianapolis.
7 Remakes I want to see
The Princess Bride(1987) - I would love to see Julie Taymor or Bryan Fuller take a crack at the 30 year old classic.
The Wizard (1989) - I'm dating myself here, but with the jumps in technology and a field of very talented young actors around today I can imagine a kick-ass version of this movie.
Fantasia (1940) - I want an IMAX Fantasia
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - This is one of those movies where an all-female version could work really well.
Fantastic Planet (1973) - The original is a weird animated classic, I think the world is ready for a live action version.
Ravenous (1999) - The low budget nature of the cannibal/slasher/period film with a great first act and weak second act. Ideally a remake would just focus on the first part.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956) - For me this is the American Christmas Carol a story so good it should get a new take every ten years or so to adjust to different social norms.
Die Hard and Jaws should never be remade, you can do a prequel to Jaws based on the Indianapolis.
7 Remakes I want to see
The Princess Bride(1987) - I would love to see Julie Taymor or Bryan Fuller take a crack at the 30 year old classic.
The Wizard (1989) - I'm dating myself here, but with the jumps in technology and a field of very talented young actors around today I can imagine a kick-ass version of this movie.
Fantasia (1940) - I want an IMAX Fantasia
Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - This is one of those movies where an all-female version could work really well.
Fantastic Planet (1973) - The original is a weird animated classic, I think the world is ready for a live action version.
Ravenous (1999) - The low budget nature of the cannibal/slasher/period film with a great first act and weak second act. Ideally a remake would just focus on the first part.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956) - For me this is the American Christmas Carol a story so good it should get a new take every ten years or so to adjust to different social norms.
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Logan's Run...
I love the original too, but it's so dated (with the special effects, half of it being shot in a water-treatment complex, etc.)[Michael York] He could play the old man in the remake!
I love the original too, but it's so dated (with the special effects, half of it being shot in a water-treatment complex, etc.)[Michael York] He could play the old man in the remake!
Meanwhile Jessica 6 would have to wear sci-fi overalls covering every inch of her body so that the film maker's aren't called sexist.
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I watched that about a week ago and did think it would be interesting to attempt it now. I have always wondered if it’s possible to adapt the Bible (some books at least) as if it were just a novel (so not delivering anything like a sermon for sure).
But I think star power would be a hindrance here; no matter how brilliant of an actor were to be chosen, I would find it bizarre to see DDL or whoever as Moses. I imagine I’d just be seeing DDL like Angelina Jolie in The Tourist where I kept thinking, Here goes Angelina Jolie. I think it would only work with an unknown actor, and who’d take a risk like that?
But also, these aren’t really stories it would make sense to enhance narratively, so not sure great writers would help. I feel like if there’s one context where it’s best to just stick to the story, the Bible is it.
But I think star power would be a hindrance here; no matter how brilliant of an actor were to be chosen, I would find it bizarre to see DDL or whoever as Moses. I imagine I’d just be seeing DDL like Angelina Jolie in The Tourist where I kept thinking, Here goes Angelina Jolie. I think it would only work with an unknown actor, and who’d take a risk like that?
But also, these aren’t really stories it would make sense to enhance narratively, so not sure great writers would help. I feel like if there’s one context where it’s best to just stick to the story, the Bible is it.
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Good luck with that. There are just so many burned-in opinions about what every line in the Bible means. Then there's the whole issue of whether a story like Moses would be presented from a Christian or Jewish perspective. I have no idea how a script writer would navigate all this, but it would be fascinating to see someone try to do it, especially with all of the aspects of the story that seem to violate "reality" as we know it. It's a fascinating story and there must be some history to uncover there. It would make a terrific movie, especially without Charlton Heston delivering his pompous lines.
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Best thing to do is take a movie that had decent premises or could have been great, but weren't executed that well.
The Thing (2011)... should be completely redone... with a full Norwegian cast, fully subtitled... with a new story instead of just being a remake of the movie it was trying to be a prequel to, which also managed to retcon the original at the same time.
Also, mentioned above ^^ Jaws... it has already been remade several times, Deep Blue Sea, The Meg etc... and sometimes with other creatures like Crocodiles and stuff too.
Basically any creature feature made after Jaws, is trying to be Jaws.
Waterworld could do with a remake though.
Love the movie as it is, but, there was so many unused ideas and stuff that was filmed and cut from the final movie.
Could be a proper epic movie, especially given today's media panic mongering about global warming.
The Thing (2011)... should be completely redone... with a full Norwegian cast, fully subtitled... with a new story instead of just being a remake of the movie it was trying to be a prequel to, which also managed to retcon the original at the same time.
Also, mentioned above ^^ Jaws... it has already been remade several times, Deep Blue Sea, The Meg etc... and sometimes with other creatures like Crocodiles and stuff too.
Basically any creature feature made after Jaws, is trying to be Jaws.
Waterworld could do with a remake though.
Love the movie as it is, but, there was so many unused ideas and stuff that was filmed and cut from the final movie.
Could be a proper epic movie, especially given today's media panic mongering about global warming.
I found out today that Waterworld is up for a remake with Dan Trachtenberg writing and directing.
Apparently it's going to be a TV series.
Universal Content Productions is the showrunner, the same people behind massively, enormous and huge hits like... the Ted TV show spinoff, the Quantum Leap sequel series, the US remake of the UK show Queer As Folk, and The Purge TV series...
They're also working on a TV series remake of The Burbs, and Cape Fear
Honestly, I can't see UCP remaking Waterworld off the original scripts.
It'll probably be a scene for scene remake of the movie using a lot of greenscreen, or, will be a prequel based around the initial flooding of the world.
They'd need a level of budget that would rival Amazon and Netflix combined, to make Waterworld in its original form.
Waterworld in 1994-95, had a budget of $175m, which in 2025 is around $400m, and they only managed to film around an 8th of the script.
>Have no desire to see The Princess Bride remade but I do like the idea of a female reboot of Revenge of the Nerds
Agreed on the first but Revenge of the Nerds doesn't work...too much of that movie is about getting in the pants of the sorority girls and that male-centric stuff doesn't fly these days. It wouldn't be the same movie.
>The Wizard (1989) - I'm dating myself here, but with the jumps in technology and a field of very talented young actors around today I can imagine a kick-ass version of this movie.
I remember a major selling point was the movie had early footage of the unreleased Super Mario 3. I wonder if they'd do that with a modern game with the remake.
Agreed on the first but Revenge of the Nerds doesn't work...too much of that movie is about getting in the pants of the sorority girls and that male-centric stuff doesn't fly these days. It wouldn't be the same movie.
>The Wizard (1989) - I'm dating myself here, but with the jumps in technology and a field of very talented young actors around today I can imagine a kick-ass version of this movie.
I remember a major selling point was the movie had early footage of the unreleased Super Mario 3. I wonder if they'd do that with a modern game with the remake.
Absolutely. I agree it would be a minefield, but we’re speculating, right?
Nevertheless, I'd be fascinated to see someone try, although, using someone else's money, not mine.
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the original movies shouldnt get remake, they should leave original movies alone
Case in point: The Wizard of Oz (1939) was a remake of a silent version from 1925.
Now, of course it could be argued that we're comparing a sound movie to a silent one, or a film with color to a black & white one, or even the fact that the first movie was a far cry from the book, while the second one was a little closer, so it's kind of a stretch to call the newer film a "remake" as opposed to another interpretation of the book utilizing the (then) current technology.
Still, the list of films we consider classic or "the definitive" versions, that are remakes of earlier versions, is pretty lengthy.
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The Green Knight is incredible. It’s very unique and somewhat Lynchian.
Great movie! Arguably the best movie of 2021.
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Chinatown is set in 1937 and portrays the manipulation of a critical municipal resource—water—by a cadre of shadowy oligarchs. It was the first part of Towne's planned trilogy about the character J. J. Gittes, the foibles of the Los Angeles power structure, and the subjugation of public good by private greed.The second part, The Two Jakes, has Gittes caught up in another grab for a natural resource—oil—in the 1940s. It was directed by Jack Nicholson and released in 1990, but the second film's commercial and critical failure scuttled plans to make Gittes vs. Gittes, about the third finite resource—land—in Los Angeles, circa 1968.
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Spiderman really needs a reboot. Property is just laying dormant. We're all waiting to experience the Peter Parker origin story again.
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Well, they already did like, 4 versions of Spider-Man inside of 10 years, and 3 versions of Hulk in the same amount of time as well... wouldn't surprise me if by 2030 we had 6 more different Spider-Mans's and another 7 or 8 versions of Hulk as well.
Mr Fantastic has had 4 or 5 versions in just the past 5 years hasn't he?... So anything's possible.
I mean, RDJ rejoining the MCU as Doom so quickly as well on top of all that... we might even see 6 or 7 different Iron Mans's's before 2030 too.
Superman's been redone like, 4 or 5 times over the past 15 years... and how many different times has Daredevil and Arrow been rebooted and restarted in the past couple years?
They've just go nobody of any discernible talent in the writing/producing room anymore, they just keep rebooting, reusing, restarting and flogging dead horses up to twice a year, every year, because there's no original ideas coming out of any of their heads.
Mr Fantastic has had 4 or 5 versions in just the past 5 years hasn't he?... So anything's possible.
I mean, RDJ rejoining the MCU as Doom so quickly as well on top of all that... we might even see 6 or 7 different Iron Mans's's before 2030 too.
Superman's been redone like, 4 or 5 times over the past 15 years... and how many different times has Daredevil and Arrow been rebooted and restarted in the past couple years?
They've just go nobody of any discernible talent in the writing/producing room anymore, they just keep rebooting, reusing, restarting and flogging dead horses up to twice a year, every year, because there's no original ideas coming out of any of their heads.
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