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The Movie Remake You'd Want to See Most  

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  1. 1. The Movie Remake You'd Want to See Most

    • Casablanca
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    • The Great Escape
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    • The Guns of Navarone
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    • The Dirty Dozen
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    • Chinatown
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    • The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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Yeah, have to say that squeaky voiced bint in Bound is really irritating and Gina Gershon's character is, well I just kept shouting "You're just a **** cliché! You're just a **** cliché!" at the TV screen.

Herecy, young Anthony!!!

Jennifer Tilly is **** lovely, and she could squeak at me 24/7 if I could get to plough here furrow

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Just decided to bump this after watching "Moby Dick" on TV yesterday. Some great OTT performances, Peck especially, but very poor SFX, and it occurred to me that there is so much more in the book that could be explored by a good director with a reasonable budget. So although I'm generally VERY anti-remakes, this one might just have some potential.

BTW, top of this page - an rjw63 spelling mistake! Edit: TWO, in fact.

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Yeah, have to say that squeaky voiced bint in Bound is really irritating and Gina Gershon's character is, well I just kept shouting "You're just a **** cliché! You're just a **** cliché!" at the TV screen.

Herecy, young Anthony!!!

Jennifer Tilly is **** lovely, and she could squeak at me 24/7 if I could get to plough here furrow

Well said Robert.

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Is there any truth to the rumours of a Ghostbusters film with Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd?

Not a remake, as such, but a "20 years on" film with Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd starring as "mentoring busters"?

Yep.

Although no mention of Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd, whoever they are.

Ghostbusters III

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Just decided to bump this after watching "Moby Dick" on TV yesterday. Some great OTT performances, Peck especially, but very poor SFX, and it occurred to me that there is so much more in the book that could be explored by a good director with a reasonable budget. So although I'm generally VERY anti-remakes, this one might just have some potential.

BTW, top of this page - an rjw63 spelling mistake! Edit: TWO, in fact.

Welles should have played Ahab in that, Peck was bloody awful.

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I can't be bothered to read through the whole thread, so apologies if this has already been said. However, I would like to see 'Big Trouble In Little China' remade. Cracking film.

On another note, the remake of A-Team is 100% on now. This is a pic of the cast:

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Not sure if I want a remake of it, as I have such fond memories from it when I was a child. The cast seems alright though.

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other, id like a remake of "the birds"

In my opinion people should stay away from remaking anything by Hitchcock as they will never do it justice. Look at Disturbia as a prime example. Rear Window is such a classic and I never want to see it touched again...

There was news that Michael Bay's company were planning on remaking The Birds though:

It looks like a salutary lesson for Hollywood producers in the Twitter era: never underestimate the power of the fans.

As ideas for new movies go, attempting remakes of classic horror films of the calibre of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby might be said to be just asking for trouble. Now it seems that even a powerbroker of the stature of Michael Bay, the film-maker behind the likes of Pearl Harbor and the Transformers movies, has had his dreams squashed by internet ire.

Cinematical's Horror Squad blog yesterday posted an interview with Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of production company Platinum Dunes, which is part-owned by Bay. The firm, which specialises in remakes of slasher favourites, had announced new big-screen versions of both films; but neither now looks likely to reach cinemas, and the wrath of online film fans would appear to be responsible.

Fuller – whose CV includes poorly-received remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, as well as a forthcoming new version of A Nightmare on Elm Street – appeared to suggest that Platinum Dunes had been overwhelmed by the negativity of readers on its towards the Hitchcock and Polanski remakes.

"As you guys know, we lay ourselves out there and get annihilated out there online all day long, and that movie just opens us up to a whole different level of annihilation," he said.

"As a producer, you pursue a bunch of things and the ones that come to fruition, you make and the other ones you try and it's a good effort. At this point, we're gonna make [Nightmare on Elm Street] and we're gonna make the next Friday the 13th, I hope, and then we'll see where we are with scripts and material, but it doesn't feel like [The Birds] is up next for us."

The Birds remake had been due to hit the big screen in 2011, with Naomi Watts taking the role made famous by Hitchcock's platinum blonde muse Tippi Hedren, and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell taking the reins. But its fate appeared to be sealed when – along with the fan criticism – Hedren herself spoke out against putting a new version into production. "They called and asked what I thought about a remake of The Birds," she said. "And I thought: 'Why would you do that? Why?' I mean, can't we find new stories, new things to do?"

As for the new version of Rosemary's Baby, the 1968 paranoiac Polanski chiller, that one also seems to have withered. The new film – if it ever does get made – will now be called The Sacrifice, perhaps in an attempt to dampen the angry response.

"Whoever's criticising Rosemary's Baby ... hasn't read Scott Kosar's script," said Fuller.

"[The bloggers] haven't read that script, so when they can criticise something they know nothing about, that doesn't resonate with me," he said. "It's where they go after us personally and say that we just do it for the money and all of the things that they've repeatedly been saying, which only bothers me because if I really wanted to make money, I'd be making much bigger-budgeted movies at this point."

It's not all the wrong moves from Fuller and Form, however. The fans wanted Oscar-nominated Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley to play Krueger in the new version of A Nightmare on Elm Street. So the duo are giving them exactly that.

Now, if this is to be believed then it looks like it will be shelved (and hopefully so). Although another website said the following:

We've been complaining for a while about Michael Bay's plan to produce a remake of The Birds, even if it's starring the generally likable George Clooney and Naomi Watts. But now there's an added element that might make the whole thing even more tasteless-- the movie might be made in 3D.

Brenna Lee Roth, a minor actress who's in talks for a role in the film, let the news slip to MarketSaw, a blog specifically dedicated to 3D movies. Roth told them, "I am in talks with the producer of THE BIRDS (remake) and he said he wanted to do it 3D, but I don't really know any more about it."

To be fair, Hitchcock himself was more than willing to experiment with new movie technologies and/or gimmicks-- Dial M for Murder was originally filmed in 3D. But it's hard to separate the 3D concept from films that really make the film for the gimmick, like Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D or My Bloody Valentine 3D. Sure, Coraline did it well, but should we really expect more from the Birds remake than birds just flying at our heads the whole time?

Please don't go near it! Especially not Michael Bay or anyone that falls under his influence....

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