http://deadline.com/2016/08/bradley-cooper-lady-gaga-a-star-is-born-warner-bros-remake-1201804358/
STOP WORLD STOP
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
didja see this one?
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/sofia-coppola-beguiled-remake-nicole-kidman-1201741673/
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 18 August 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
did the world really need three ben-hur movies?
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Friday, 19 August 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
Or A Star Is Born x4 (and apparently there are more in other countries)?
― Justin Truedat (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 August 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
this is the sixth Ben-Hur (film or TV).
I'm generally Siegel-Eastwood fan but The Beguiled isn't that good to begin with.
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 August 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
i think each generation gets the star is born they deserve
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 19 August 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
i downloaded a hip hop track just now and the captcha i had to type in was
See Ben Hur
― johnny crunch, Friday, 19 August 2016 23:26 (seven years ago) link
Hur Ben Hur
― Hamilton, Joe Frank & Two-Thirds of Asphyx (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
Hurge Ben Hur
― Put Out More Flag Posts (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
Ben Hur 2016 flopped. Good.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 27 August 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/remakes/36637/109-movie-remakes-and-reboots-currently-in-the-works
Good luck indeed with Seven Samurai
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 September 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
A remake of The Naked Gun that isn't a spoof?
David Fincher doing Strangers on a Train could work.
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:18 (seven years ago) link
David Fincher doing Strangers on a Train
I opted not to click the above link specifically to avoid such nauseating prospects.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Seriously. Like someone could possibly top Throw Mama.
― I Still Don't Regret My Crazy Town Neck Tat, and Here's Why (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
I think the Goosebumps director doing Seven Samurai was the worst.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
OK, so clicked anyway and, some WTF ones aside (Flatliners?!), most of these are of the "who gives a shit" variety (another Batman movie? You're kidding!). Only SoaT, Don't Look Now, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and a Michael Bay-produced The Birds are all that frightening to me.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
Not a film but, hey Hollywood: instead of making the bizarre decision to let Chris Columbus resurrect Alfred Hitchcock Presents (which, in NOT keeping with the spirit of the original, will apparently feature season-long remakes of Hitchcock films) why not maybe make the second half of the original series or y'know any of the '80s reboot available for people to watch, kthanx.
― I Still Don't Regret My Crazy Town Neck Tat, and Here's Why (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Then there's
http://deadline.com/2016/09/johnny-depp-murder-on-the-orient-express-at-fox-1201828368/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:54 (seven years ago) link
loled at this summing up of cinema-in-2016 by the guy doing the new pumpkinhead:
There’s a lot of Easter eggs for people who know the original — iconic shots and iconic lines that we’re going to use. But we’ve enhanced the setting, and we’ve expanded the characters somewhat, to give it a different kind of experience.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
don't care what they do to murder on the orient express because it has always been dreadful. the train doesn't even move. why be on the train.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
The secret is this is Murder By the Orient Express, where the train eats people.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
all the trains eat people.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Most of these remakes are not ruining anything genuinely classic. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a true classic and any remake of it would not be worth a fig in comparison.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
curious what they'd replace "pilgrim" with. "sjw" maybe.
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
the MAD parody of Murder on the Orient Express is v funny
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:58
Never trust a geeky creator who uses the word "iconic" excessively.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 October 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
iconic shots to appear in remake of pumpkinhead:
1) camera dives into pool w pumpkinhead
2) camera rises thru rafters of theater to reveal pumpkinhead holding nose
3) pumpkinhead stares wistfully at binary sunset
4) pumpkinhead traverses corridor lit by human arms extending from walls holding jack-o-lanterns
5) ape tosses uncultivated squash into air; jump-cut to pumpkinhead
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 2 October 2016 00:05 (seven years ago) link
Not the same thing at all, but speaks beautifully to another of the cliches of journalism and press hype around these kinds of movies: http://www.theonion.com/article/candy-land-screenwriter-under-impression-fans-coun-53517
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 2 October 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link