Remake This SF Movie, and I'll KILL/LOVE You!!!
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Sunday, September 26, 2010 17:38
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What NEEDS to be remade?
What is perfectly fine without the big budget blockbuster white-wash & CGI treatment?
Getting remade (GRRRRR): Fantastic Voyage. WhyTF? A fun, cheesy little 60's film with relatively nice model work & a story as small as it's shrunk down ship. Oh yeah, we need a new one, bad. That'll be as good as the Planet Of The Apes one, I guarantee.
Needs a remake: Valley Of Gwangi. Old west vs. Dinosaurs?? That's SO high-concept!!! They just didn't make it look so believable back then IMO.
Bring it, b**ches!!!!
I turn the floor over to the next contributor. 
The laughing Chrisisall
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Here's another two we needed(yeah): One Million Years BC. Wasn't that great? 
I Am Legend. Did they even READ the book? I guess not. At least CALL it The Omega Man, if that's what you're REALLY remaking (badly, that is)!
Needs To Be Remade: Logan's Run. It's been looked at. So, DO it already!!! & stick closer to the NOVEL this time!!!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Do not touch 2001: A Space Odyssey. All these films are yours, except 2001. Attempt no remakes there.
Leave Blade Runner alone.
Remake Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. No - scratch that. Don't "remake" it; just render it in 3D. That's doable now, allegedly - the doing old 2D movies into 3D, but it's expensive and time-consuming, but those aren't things that have bothered Lucas in the past.
[Ducking and covering, because I know all the Star Wars freaks are going to be coming after me...]
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Quote:Thus spake Kwickothustra.
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Do not touch 2001: A Space Odyssey. All these films are yours, except 2001. Attempt no remakes there.
I agree.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Hello,
If they do Fantastic Voyage, I'd rather they did Fantastic Voyage II, because the author of Fantastic Voyage was perturbed with the tripe he was required to write for the initial novelization.
I wouldn't mind seeing Nightfall redone, even as a low-budget independent flick in the 5-10 million range. The original is barely suitable for television nowadays. It hasn't aged well at all. Heck, it was barely suitable when it was originally made.
I wouldn't mind seeing The Final Countdown redone, or The Philadelphia Experiment.
A good Leyte Gulf movie featuring The Battle off Samar and Taffy III. There's been lots of History Channel movies, but I'd like to see something big-budget and very slightly fictionalized a-la Tora-Tora-Tora.
I'd like to see Starship Troopers remade properly, to cleave to the book, but there's fat chance of that.
--Anthony
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Quote:Very gorram sadly.
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I'd like to see Starship Troopers remade properly, to cleave to the book, but there's fat chance of that.
The laughing Chrisisall
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_short_story)
Hello,
This is the Nightfall I meant, btw. I realized just now there are others.
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I honestly don't care. If something I love is remade, it doesn't go away (and it usually means a new special edition DVD/Blu), so I'll always be able to watch it.
If the remake is good, cool, I have another fun version of a story I like. If it's bad, I don't have to watch it. No biggie.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I agree, but that attitude does not serve this intentionally goofy thread well.
Be ANGRY at wastes of money!!! Let's RIOT over crap tales retold when new ones could be!!! Let's destroy infrastructure over movies that NEED remaking!!
Or, you know, just watch new eps of CHUCK.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:There's always the TV series.
Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Very gorram sadly.
Originally posted by AnthonyT:
I'd like to see Starship Troopers remade properly, to cleave to the book, but there's fat chance of that.
Over on Ex Isle, original series scribe Zack Stentz got us speculating on an Andromeda reboot ( http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?/topic/65936-andromeda-2012-the-reb
oot/ --universal takeaways: bring back RHW, give him an actual budget, don't fire the creator from his own gorram show).
One of my pet projects for when I finally make a name for myself is a reboot of Silverhawks as a (slightly) harder SF space-opera involving long-range sleeper-ships and cyborged peace agents ("partly metal, partly real") who are the only beings that can survive the wear and tear of interstellar travel without being cryofrozen.
I also have a few ideas for a big-budget summer blockbuster based on the Galaxy Rangers franchise. It wouldn't really be a reboot, though: just the first episode brought up to two-hour length (the episode itself uses time-compression to cover a span of several months --the lead goes from "I need to put a team together" to being in command of a well-oiled machine. We never actually see the Rangers as strangers pulling together).
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