What Movie(s) Do you want to see a remake/reboot of?

[Locut0s]

On the other side of the coin to the post JustAnotherGen posted what films would you actually not mind seeing a remake or reboot of?

Perhaps you thought the concept was great but they did a horrible job or it?

Being a bit of a comic book film fan I'd like to see them take another shot at:

The Green Lantern (Ryan Renolds was just all wrong for this roll. An all round mess elsewhere too)
-I see IMDB has a listing for Green Lantern 2, but I'd rather a reboot.

[Scuba]

1. The Groundstar Conspiracy

Put Denzel Washington in the George Peppard role and James McAvoy in the Michael Sarazen role.

[davidpdx]

2. Fletch

They need someone who is younger though. There were rumors there was going to be a reboot of the series (well there were only two made, but there are several books from what I understand).

If they were well made with a good cast I think three would be doable.

[davidpdx]

3. Running Scared (1986)

One of my all time favorite movies. Hines and Crystal.

[Bjorn Against]

4. I am actually really excited for the new Robocop

I know a lot of people are upset that they are even making the movie, but as a fan of the original I am really excited to see the character brought back to the big screen. It is really more of a reboot than a remake, but as long as they keep the satire that the original had and update it for modern times I will be very happy.

[Bjorn Against]

5. I would also like them to do a new 1984 movie

I was pretty disappointed in the original, but the source material has so much potential to be a great movie. The same goes for Animal Farm, the original animated film was terrible but the book is great.

Generally speaking the movies that most need remakes are not the good movies, they are the bad movies that had good concepts. There have been a lot of movies that had the potential to be so good, but poor filmmaking ruined them. These are the movies that I really want to see remade.

[pamela]

6. The Grapes of Wrath.

I know few will agree with that as the original is very good and a classic but I would still like to see a remake. They flubbed the end by deleting the most powerful scene in the novel. I also think modern cinematography would be an improvement over the look of the movie. It's just such a great story, I would love to see it re-introduced to a younger generation.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. It's one of my favorites

But I would love a remake of Arsenic and Old Lace -

Clooney has to play Mortimer Brewster - but if they wanted to shake it up . . . Idris Elba and a multi ethnic cast.


I'm thinking Betty White and Debbie Reynolds for the old Aunts if they were to cast Clooney as Mortimer. And Uncle Teddy could be played fabulously by Nathan Lane or John Lithgow.

Vince Vaugn or Will Ferrel for O'Hara.

Don Cheadle for Dr. Einstein

Zoe Saldana or Eva Mendes for Elaine Harper.



I've put a lot of thought into this over the years.

[valerief]

9. Oh, no, there will never be another Josephine Hull! nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. A Study In Scarlet

As a major Sir Arthur Conan Doyle aficionado, I'd like to see a feature film length adaptation of that Sherlock Holmes novel. It was tried in the 1960s on British TV with the great Peter Cushing in the role of Sherlock Holmes. But the novel's story was greatly abridged; it didn't show how Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first met and became friends, nor did it show the very extensive and exciting story about murder in the American west in Mormon territory. I'd want it set in the proper Victorian era and with an actor who could carry the difficult role of the dark, brooding, complex Holmes as well as Jeremy Brett could. Please, no 21st century adaptation and no Mr.Cumberbatch who I don't think very much of. I love Sherlock Holmes but I'm not a fan of Sherlock.

[Aristus]

10. Fahrenheit 451.

The version from the 1960's was too European, too art-house. Terrific movie, but I don't think it really captured the Bradbury story effectively. Bradbury makes it clear that the story is set in America. The tone, the attitudes, the zeitgeist are all too American to exist effectively in a European setting.

Plus, I think a good director, like Frank Darabont, could capture the story well by including the advances in technology, like the internet. Interactive media was a large part of the lives of the characters. It would be important to depict it realistically.

[scarletwoman]

11. Interesting choice. I love Bradbury, and love Julie Christie.

It was such a long time ago that I actually saw the movie - back whenever it was theatrically released - that I can't really remember much about it, other than having a vague feeling of disappointment.

I'm just afraid that it were being made into a movie today, it would likely miss the point even worse than the original. I don't trust today's movie-makers to have the wherewithal to tell a straightforward story in stark, unblinking terms without a bunch of superfluous garbage thrown in. There's so little sense of true metaphor in today's filmmaking.

[Aristus]

13. Truffaut was a gifted director, and I've always adored Julie Christie.

But none of the admirable elements of the film succeeded in making a convincing statement.

Casting Julie Christie as Montag's wife and the girl was too artsy-fartsy to really work. Truffaut was practically shouting at the audience: "SEE THE DUALITY HERE? SEE WHY MONTAG IS CONFLICTED?"

My dream remake:

Director: Frank Darabont.
Montag: Somebody like Ryan Gosling.
Mildred: Tara Reid, or someone like her; vacuous, selfish, vain.
Clarisse: At one time, I would have said Natalie Portman, but she may be too old now.
Beatty: Kevin Spacey
Faber: Anthony Hopkins.

[scarletwoman]

14. I can neither agree or disagee.

I don't know who Frank Darabont is.
I'm familiar with the name, Ryan Gosling, but if you asked me to pick him out of a line-up, I wouldn't have a clue.
Tara Reid - same thing, no idea of who she is.
Natalie Portman - she pisses me off, ever since Black Swan, so I'm fine with leaving her out.
Kevin Spacey - he can do no wrong in my book.
Anthony Hopkins - tolerable.

I never was actually "into" Truffault, I just happened to catch a few of his films. Like "The Wild Child" and "Day for Night", back in the days when I lived in the City and went to movies.

[Aristus]

15. Frank Darabont directed two of the most highly respected films adapted from

the writing of Stephen King: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.

I think he has the chops to make a film that requires the audience to sympathize with a man who is a willing, even happy participant in a system that tyrannizes free thinkers. Darabont can directed with exquisite sensitivity when he needs to.

Ryan Gosling:


Tara Reid:

[scarletwoman]

16. Okay, I liked both those movies, "Shawshank Redemption" and "Green Mile".

So I can't fault your choice of director. However, I'm not a Steven King fan, so I can't judge whether or not he does a good job vis-à-vis the original work.

Just by the pic of Ryan Gosling, he does not in any way fit my personal vision of Montag (I still have no idea of what work he's done as an actor). My first impression is that I'd prefer someone much more dark and conflicted - like, say, Russell Crowe.

I will grant than Tanya Reid looks like she could be the perfect superficial empty-headed telescreen-addicted bubble-headed wife.

And since we're fantasizing, what about Hillary Swank as Clarisse?

[Aristus]

17. Hilary Swank and Russell Crowe are both too old for the roles.

Montag is thirty, Clarisse is seventeen.

I could more see Russell Crowe as Beatty. And as menacing as he can be, he doesn't have Kevin Spacey's quiet, but ominous sense of an explosion about to happen. Russell Crowe's performance as Bud White in L.A. Confidential (which Kevin Spacey was also in, BTW...) was a tour de force of quiet menace. But it showed him inflicting some brutal beatings.
Beatty can't be thought of as a character who can make your life hell by beating you up. He's a character who can make your life hell by filing a report.

[scarletwoman]

19. You're right. It just goes to show how few recent movies I've seen.

I guess the images I have in my mind of those actors are of their much younger incarnations.

[Aristus]

20. As an aside, this is what one recent critic had to say about Hilary Swank:

"She has lots of teeth, but only one facial expression."

[scarletwoman]

21. Ha! Actually, I've never seen a Hilary Swank movie, just seen pictures of her.

But your quote reminds me of what I thought about the star of what may be the most recent movie I saw in a theater - Natalie Portman in "The Black Swan".

I would say that Natalie Portman has a lovely face, but only one facial expression.

[Aristus]

22. Well, if one is going to have just one facial expression.

it helps to look like Natalie Portman.

[scarletwoman]

23. LOL!

Indeed.

[Little_Wing]

12. Perfect candidate

This is one of those movies made in a transitional moment in film. Despite being set in the future, it seems trapped in 60s. Even Julie Christie seems artificial, although she was one of the most "natural" actors of that era.

Hope this happens.

[Paladin]

18. "Ghost Story" and "Simon Birch" ("A Prayer For Owen Meany")

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The movies of these two books were weak efforts---to put it charitably. John Irving, author of "A Prayer For Owen Meany," disowned the cut-and-paste movie version, insisting on the name change. A new movie of "Ghost Story," properly done by competent people, would be spooking multiple generations in the future, like Kubrick's "The Shining" has managed to do.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

24. Retour De Manivelle - a great French film noir

The title is a French expression that means something that backfires. This 1957 film had four great actors: the seductive French actress Michele Morgan, Daniel Gelin, Peter Van Eyck, and the great Bernard Blier. It was based on a novel by British writer James Hadley Chase. In this film, Van Eyck plays the role of a formerly rich man who's lost his fortune. One night, he emerges drunk from a nightclub on the French Riviera and is nearly run over in the street. A young, somewhat naive man (Gelin) helps him get home to his lavish villa which he shares with his wife, an absolute ice princess (Morgan). Van Eyck offers him a job as his chauffeur. Gelin becomes attracted to Van Eyck's lovely wife. Van Eyck is faced with financial ruin and a wife who is incapable of love and so commits suicide. To punish his icy wife, he removes the suicide clause from his insurance policy, meaning that to collect his money, his wife will have to hide the suicide and make it look like her husband was murdered and he tells her about it before he kills himself. The trick is to make it look like someone else killed him, not her. She enlists Gelin in the scheme who is a slave to her icy charms. But they do too good a job in making it look like someone else murdered her husband and the the police detective (Blier) suspects the wife and her boyfriend. Morgan plays a beautiful icy woman every bit as evil as Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity. An American version of this film could be interesting.

[mackerel]

25. I'd love to see a remake of A Town Like Alice