What new movies will be remade in 20 years time?

Paul_D · 08-26-2003, 06:47 AM

The question occured to me while watching The Italian Job remake trailer: which current films are gonna go through the re-think machine for future generations to discover first-hand?

Of the remakes I can think of, they generally seem to break down into 5 specific categories

1) to exploit developments in film-making technology - updated effects, inflated budgets etc. e.g. Time Machine

2) to realise the specific vision of a filmmaker e.g. Psycho

3) to translate a foreign success to the English-speaking world e.g. The Vanishing

4) to update a classic story, cast teen actors and set it in a high-school somewhere, e.g. Swimfan

5) to rake in bags and bags of cash

So what currently new flicks will be cropping up again in our film-going futures?

Moe Maishlish · 08-26-2003, 02:30 PM

I think we're about due for a remake of Charlton Heston's "Ten Commandments". The biblical events in that movie are just SCREAMING for the special-effects treatments of today.

I'm not necessarily saying it's necessary, but I can see it coming... and it might not be that bad.

Moe.

Rob Bartlett · 08-26-2003, 05:15 PM

We did get an animated version in '98.

Holadem · 08-26-2003, 06:04 PM

Someone is going to want to do a high budget remake of the Blair Witch Project.

Stupider ideas were greenlit, just wait and see.

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Holadem

JohnE · 08-26-2003, 07:55 PM

Th Lord of the Rings?

JK, I just finished watching TTT so the LOTR is on my mind.

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Steeve Bergeron · 08-26-2003, 08:06 PM

How about TPM?

Morgan Jolley · 08-26-2003, 08:47 PM

I think that we're due (not as in they should be made, but will be inevitably made) for some more Hitchcock remakes.

Garrett Lundy · 08-26-2003, 10:11 PM

After the studios rake in phat cash with TROY and the other Alexander the Great-themed film, expect some remakes of other Greek adventure films!

I'm looking forward to:

Clash of the Titans! Jason and the Argonauts! Hercules in Manhattan! The Seven voyages of Sinbad! The 300 Spartans (hopefully from the Frank Miller graphic novel '300).

Moe Maishlish · 08-27-2003, 12:48 PM

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We did get an animated version in '98.

True, but that was themed completely differently than the original classic. It was more a disneyfied comedy-drama-musical than a straight out biblical epic.

A live-action remake with effects-galore and every hollywood actor you could think of (think of the scope of the casting for this one) is just lurking in tinseltown's wings. I don't think it's avoidable... it's inevitable.

Moe.

Ashley Seymour · 08-27-2003, 02:03 PM

The Terminator A contemporary tale of the ongoing conflict between man and machine. Interesting plot twist where a former body builder/ex governor is time shifted from 40 years before the future to save the struggling human race against the machines.

Die Hard An aged janitor (with previous experience as a police officer fighting terrorists in LA and New York) keeping vigil over the waste baskets on the 260th floor of the new Gates Towers in New York. When a new era band of terrorists attempts to steal reams of paper that are placed in a vault with other rare objects d'art our former action hero saves the day with banal quips that reduces the terrorists to wimpering girlymen who gladly flee to the police to gain relief.

Air Force One Our new Hyper Sonic Transport Air Force 1 is hijacked when the President, Jessica Lynch, in on her way to broker a deal between waring factions in California. The states 500 remaining Anglos have taken haven in the Redwoods Natinal Forest and are holding hostage several Spotted Owls and threaten to eat the if a ban on campfires is not raised. President Lynch convinces the hijackers that the HST has shifted course and is actually headed 1000 thousand miles south of the intended destination. The hijackers attempt to don parachutes and excape out the back loading ramp - with regrettable consequences.

Rex Bachmann · 08-29-2003, 12:37 AM

Paul Dalmaine wrote (post #1):

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Of the remakes I can think of, they generally seem to break down into 5 specific categories

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4) to update a classic story, cast teen actors and set it in a high-school somewhere, e.g. Swimfan
5) to rake in bags and bags of cash

So what currently new flicks will be cropping up again in our film-going futures?

I wouldn't say about "currently new flicks", but there's one that's been remade several times over already and [sigh!] is seemingly damned to be repeated over and over and over, at least once a decade, to no good effect, to wit:

SciFiWire: "Body Snatched Again "

dateline: August 27, 2003 9:00 a.m. ET

Quote:

Producers Roy Lee and Doug Davison (The Ring) will produce an updated version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers for Warner Brothers, Variety reported. Warner owns the remake rights after making the 1993 Body Snatchers, directed by Abel Ferrara, the trade paper reported.

No screenwriter is attached yet. The new version is expected to center on a female protagonist who uncovers a conspiracy in a small town where the inhabitants' personalities seem to be changing, the trade paper reported.

Don Siegel's original 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, based on Jack Finney's story, became a cult classic and has been subject to several remakes, including one in 1978 starring Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams.

Damnation!