What movies do you think could go well with a remake?

[No Quarter]

Cannonball Run.

Ohhh absolutely! The one with John Candy in it (I think it was #2?) I loved as a kid.

 

[Ry009]

In the works, with Edgar Wright directing.

Thats awesome to hear. Love the book and the movie despite both being very different.

 

[FreoGirl]

The Langoliers

 

[JackOutback]

The Guardian calling for a different approach top remakes/sequels.

Hollywood should look beyond Star Wars and Lord of the Rings retreads for sequels

The blockbuster franchises are showing signs of serious wear and tear, so why don’t the studios take on newer worlds created by the likes of Christopher Nolan and Alex Garland?

www.theguardian.com

 

[faible]

It's been 30 years since this classic

 

[FreoGirl]

The Langoliers

 

[ibd77]

Cannonball Run.

Hell yeah, but not a comedy as most modern comedians are awful.

 

[Gasometer]

Alien

Oh wait, looks like the remake is coming out in August

 

[phantom13]

The question also comes in to mind of how much you stick to the original or how much you deviate

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Is one of my all time favourite movies.

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This one not so much

OLD bump but i think i may have mentioned this before.

The Point Break remake suffers more from the original movie comparisons. Its actually pretty good and has genuinely some of the most incredible stunt work and location shooting in any action movie ever.

If it had a bigger star in the Utah spot (or just a better actor) and didnt have to contend with the originals love (and to be clear i also LOVE the original) i think it would be seen pretty fondly.

 

[No Quarter]

OLD bump but i think i may have mentioned this before.

The Point Break remake suffers more from the original movie comparisons. Its actually pretty good and has genuinely some of the most incredible stunt work and location shooting in any action movie ever.

If it had a bigger star in the Utah spot (or just a better actor) and didnt have to contend with the originals love (and to be clear i also LOVE the original) i think it would be seen pretty fondly.

Prob not wrong

I should watch it again

For some reason I think I recall thinking it was woke

 

[phantom13]

Prob not wrong

I should watch it again

For some reason I think I recall thinking it was woke

They are Eco Terrorists (whatever that specifically means) but they are also the bad guys...

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

As a huge Hitchcock fan, as sacrilegious as this sounds, I would love to to see a rnake/modern Vertigo (PROVIDED) They had the proper actors and crucially director in place (Christopher Nolan would be my choice) to take on such a project/task.


Weird as it sounds, i could honestly see Zac Efron taking Jimmy Stewart's lead as John Ferguson.

Reckon he would be ideal in a remake of arguably Hitchcock's greatest movie as his most intense and polarising lead/main character.

 

[The Sultan]

Word for word remake of 'The Room', but with top tier level actors.

 

[Norwegian Blue]

They Live
The Elephant Man
Flash Gordon
The Man who fell to Earth
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No
Meh
**** no! That movie is perfect.
No

 

[CGuest]

Came across a post on FB before pondering movies that should or could be remade.

Obviously some remakes stink.

The suggestion though was this one:

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Despite it being a colossal flop, I always have had a soft spot for it. Loved it as a younger bloke and would watch it every now and again.

I think with the right script/director/cast it could actually be made in to something that hits better.

Though sadly, with out the great man;

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Loved it, his new movie horizon isn't very good though

 

[kickazz]

Taxi Driver.

But instead of wanting to wash the streets of hookers and junkies, Travis Bickle is on a mission to get rid of the hipsters and w***ers.

 

[kickazz]

Back to the future. Set in 2025. marty goes back to 1995. Shock horror the backwards past!

I can just see the discussion with 1995 Doc on all the cool things in the future, and aside from the ubiquitous free pr0n, Doc being really underwhelmed.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake in the works

James Bond producers are teaming to re-imagine Ian Fleming’s children’s story, previously adapted in 1968

www.theguardian.com

 

[VainGlorious]

The Running Man but a version close the King's book.

In the works, with Edgar Wright directing.

Glen Powell to play the role of Ben Richards (Arnies character)

Josh Brolin cast as a villain.

Keen for this.

 

[raskolnikov]

They Live
The Elephant Man
Flash Gordon
The Man who fell to Earth
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I don't agree with The Elephant Man. It's perfect.

 

[raskolnikov]

As a Stephen King fan some of his older outdated movies could do with a remake.

Thinner
Sometimes They Come Back
Needful Things
Cujo

 

[GROTTO]

Star Wars will eventually undergo a remake. Its inevitable. Its been almost 50 years since the original.

I would be surprised if many people under the age of 25-30 have seen the original.

 

[No Quarter]

Star Wars will eventually undergo a remake. Its inevitable. Its been almost 50 years since the original.

I would be surprised if many people under the age of 25-30 have seen the original.

Couldn't imagine it happening while all these million different spinoffs keep happening

Unless the Disney thing forms the basis of them doing it themselves as part of all of this

 

[phantom13]

Star Wars will eventually undergo a remake. Its inevitable. Its been almost 50 years since the original.

I would be surprised if many people under the age of 25-30 have seen the original.

The most recent trilogy was essentially a remake of the original trilogy anyway really.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Krakatoa: East of Java.

There's the basis of a great disaster movie. Four volcanic explosions, the third of which was so loud it could be heard 3,000 km away in Perth. Each explosion was accompanied by tsunamis estimated to have been over 30 metres high. Several thousand cubic kilometres of material was ejected and blasted up to a height of 80 km.

The 1968 movie has a plot involving an expedition to find some valuable pearls on a sunken ship, a love relationship between the ship's captain and one of the passengers who is looking for her lost son, a large group of convicts who are taken on board then escape, and some bikini clad Japanese pearl divers. All fun stuff.

But it's a disaster of a disaster movie! There's continuity errors, overacting, characters making stupid decisions so the plot can happen, scenes that last way too long, the special effects have dated badly, and there's a musical number that is very out of place. I think it could go well with a remake.