The Forbidden Remake
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Awesome, I'm glad. But, all you have to do is check it out on Rotten Tomatoes: The White Countess to see that it has more haters than lovers. So I hope that you love it, but I won't hold my breath. For sure, I love it. I don't understand why most do not. Sad, but true.
Ghost Busters is a good one. I suppose they could do cool things with it with contemporary CGI and a big budget, but who wants the original cast replaced?
And, The Wizard of OZ. Hands off, please. Though, re-imaginings and sequels and the like are fine. In fact, I'm really looking forward to Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful. And, I have no idea what the play is like, but I'm guessing that a film adaptation of the book, Wicked, could be interesting.
Though it's not technically a remake, I can't help but think of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". We'd seen it remade before, and the results were horrendous. How dare they do it again?!
And yet, it's absolutely brilliant.
All bets are off! Nothing is off-limits! Remake everything!
Except for Nightmare Before Christmas, and Team America. No chance in hell you could catch that lightning in a bottle again.
Okay, so here's the flip-side of the discussion -- if an unremakeable movie is to be remade, who do you want directing it?
I'd like to see Tarantino's take on Star Wars. The Solo-Gredo scene would've been about twenty times longer!
How about Joss Whedon taking on Ghostbusters?
I'm pretty sure Danny Boyle would do justice to remaking ANYTHING.
Should they ever remake Indiana Jones, please oh please, let it be directed by Joseph Weindl!
And yet, it's absolutely brilliant.
All bets are off! Nothing is off-limits! Remake everything!
Except for Nightmare Before Christmas, and Team America. No chance in hell you could catch that lightning in a bottle again.
Okay, so here's the flip-side of the discussion -- if an unremakeable movie is to be remade, who do you want directing it?
I'd like to see Tarantino's take on Star Wars. The Solo-Gredo scene would've been about twenty times longer!
How about Joss Whedon taking on Ghostbusters?
I'm pretty sure Danny Boyle would do justice to remaking ANYTHING.
Should they ever remake Indiana Jones, please oh please, let it be directed by Joseph Weindl!
Sometimes remakes equal or outdo the original. King Kong, Dawn of the Dead, and Straw Dogs are good remakes
I'll need to think on that for a little while. Great question, by the way.
Rian Johnson is one of those directors that really seems to be starting to play in the big-boy playing arena now. I'd like to see what he has in store. Brick was great, Looper was excellent (haven't seen "Brothers Solomon"). My vote is on him for Star Wars Ep VII, actually. Rain Johnson would be my #1 pick if there were to be a Blade Runner remake.
Unremarkable films, though? Hm. The list is so massive that I can't narrow it down just yet.
Brother, you're hurting me
Just the Straw Dogs one. I thought the rest were fairly good remakes. Straw Dogs just did not cut it for me once single bit. James Marsden was solid enough, but everyone else couldn't act worth a damn, the director was snoozing, and the screenwriting was just --- faulty. Again, not to bash your opinion, but that film just didn't have what I was expecting. Hey, maybe my expectations were just too high. That could have been.
-Jesse
"The Bucket List" directed by Jason Reitman. Hey, it might not win Best Picture, but it would make money form me seeing it in theater!
I say god father also, and Our man in Havanna.
Also, films that are just forbidden to make, at all: Twilight saga.
Also, films that are just forbidden to make, at all: Twilight saga.
Brother, you're hurting me
Again, not to bash your opinion, but that film just didn't have what I was expecting. Hey, maybe my expectations were just too high. That could have been.
-Jesse
Well one of the reasons why I like the remake is that the villain's acting was much better. In the original, 3 of the villains spoke in unusually high voices, and I did not buy it. James Wood's and Alexander Skaarsgard's acting, totally made up for that for me.
The Towering Inferno. That's one movie that will NEVER get remade.
All bets are off! Nothing is off-limits! Remake everything!
Oh, to heck with it, nevermind, then.
The Wizard of Oz Remake/Reimagining:
Shot in 3D, HFR. 300 million dollar budget. And that's before marketing costs, so really something like a 400 million dollar budget? Fusion Camera System with Arri Alexas.
Not a musical.
R-Rated, for violence, nudity, sexuality, adult themes, drug use, epic battle sequences, and scary images.
Martin Scorsese directs.
Cowritten by Josh Whedan & Neil Gaiman
Cinematography by Peter Deming.
Gaffer Petr Konrád
Gary Rydstrom Sound Designer.
Leslie Tomkins Art Director.
Kym Berrett Costume Designer.
Thelma Schoonmaker Editor.
Ray Winstone is The Lion.
Don Cheadle is The Tin Man.
Dan Stevens is The Scarecrow. Tough one. I'm still trying to think of who should be The Scarecrow. Any ideas?
Anne Hathaway is Dorothy.
Either Ciarán Hinds or Peter Stormare as The Wizard.
Ricky Gervais is the Munchkin Mayor.
Maggie Smith is The Wicked Witch of the West. I hate to see her play a bad guy, but I bet she'd be great at it. I don't know. Any other casting ideas for this character? I'm drawing a blank. What about Frances McDormand? Any others?
Amy Adams is Glinda.
Auntie Em. I don't know. How about Kathy Bates? Who else?
Toto is a real, honest-to-goodness, frickin' Cairn Terrior, for goodness sake --not just-some-any-damn-breed-that's-small-and-cute-too!
And it'll be a trilogy, of course. The epic battle sequences will probably come more in II and III, like in the LOTR trilogy. Duh.
Coming soon.
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