Film Remakes- Remix Edition

[Black Narcissus]

Post your favorite remakes and films that really did not need one. You can also use this thread for remake rumors etc.

Anyway, It seems like Brett Ratner wants to remake Enter The Dragon. WTF!

I won't be surprised if we get a Godfather reboot.

 

[Lord]

Who in their right minds would reboot Godfather? Even Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz would make more sence.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Who in their right minds would reboot Godfather? Even Gone with the Wind or Wizard of Oz would make more sence.

Well, not a complete remake per-se but continuing that storyline with another generation. I remember Coppola talking about being approached to make Godfather 4-6 or as a series.

 

[Sawyer]

Reboot? No interest.

Proposed Part IV centered on Vincent's reign bringing about the Corleone family's end, with flashbacks to Vito's early days as the Don? Morbidly curious.

 

[sueb1863]

Word is there are *two* remakes of 'A Tale of Two Cities' in the works, one from Netflix/ UK Channel 4 and one from BBC Films/ Origin Films.

We'll see if either one ever gets off the ground.

 

[Loki882]

Reboot? No interest.

Proposed Part IV centered on Vincent's reign bringing about the Corleone family's end, with flashbacks to Vito's early days as the Don? Morbidly curious.

That, could actually maybe work. The whole "Vincent becoming Don" thing did leave open at least the possibility of another film.

 

[Loki882]

Good remakes:

-Scarface (the Al Pacino version).
-Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the Donald Sutherland one).
-John Carpenter's The Thing.
-The Departed.
-Ocean's 11.
-The Thomas Crowne Affair.
-Sunshine.
-The Evil Dead.

Decent remakes:

-The Crazies.
-Piranha 3D.
-Dawn of the Dead.
-The Italian Job.
-Friday the 13th.

 

[Lord]

Well, not a complete remake per-se but continuing that storyline with another generation. I remember Coppola talking about being approached to make Godfather 4-6 or as a series.

Oh, that could be interesting, though 3 more movies would be a stretch.

Reboot? No interest.

Proposed Part IV centered on Vincent's reign bringing about the Corleone family's end, with flashbacks to Vito's early days as the Don? Morbidly curious.

Yeah, that's my favorite idea, i believe it had been discussed in the 90s.

Another trilogy would be too much, i mean, each one of the main films was a complete story and closure to the period it was telling, it only ended up becoming a trilogy because the studios were able to make Copola do a 3rd movie. The idea of a 4th film (most likely not directed by copola, but by someone who would nowadays be able to deliver something amazing), with the Corleone's family crumbling due to Vincent's reign, at the same time we see Vito's rise in the past, sounds much more exciting than simply stretching things into another Trilogy.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I really like both INFERNAL AFFAIRS and THE DEPARTED. Of course no need to mention how great both the the Kurosawa and Sturges MAGNIFICENT SEVEN are.

However the difference in 1988's THE VANISHING and 1993's is stunning, no less than that the man who directed the original also directed the American version, with the American version being far less in overall quality, or at least, far more interested in conforming to "Hollywood" standards, which was what was so interesting about the original French language film, that it wasn't a straightforward thriller or revenge film.

 

[Hordakfan]

Good remakes (not adaptations of books).
The Departed.
The Blob.
The Hills Have Eyes.
Night of the Living Dead.
Dawn of the Dead.
King Kong.
Angels in the Outfield.
Father of the Bride.
The Vanishing.
Insomenia.
Ocean's 11.
The Evil Dead.
Maniac.
Magifnicent Seven.
Fistful of Dollars.
The Crazies.


I don't consider any film based on Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities "remakes" of any earlier film, they are new adaptations of source material. I don't consider The Thing is a "remake" of The Thing from Another World. They are 2 completely very different movies and have little in common other than alien and snow as everything is different between the two like the location, the characters and their background, the nature/methods of the alien (The Thing from Another World's monster had only one form being a vegetable humanoid vampire who sucked blood and reproduced itself but was not the original story's imitator where in Carpenter's film/the original book it is a shapeshifting being that can imitate into any living creature/being it touches), the discovery/origin of the spaceship etc. are very different from each other. They are 2 separate films and 2 separate cinematic adaptations of the same original source material the 1938 novella, Who Goes There by, John W. Campbell, Jr. under the pen name Don A. Stuart. and Carpenter's film is a new direct adaptation of the book. The earlier film was just another typical 50's sci-fi monster movie with no ties to the original novella.

Remakes and adaptations are 2 different things. To me, the definition of a remake is when it's based on a motion picture produced earlier and it's screenplay (ones not based on any existing source materials like comics or novellas or books or graphic novels) like say Ocean's 11 or Father of the Bride or Halloween as those are actual remakes. Adaptations means new adaptations of source materials being books, comics, novellas and graphic novels while having nothing to do with the film or films made before them like say any new film version of Bram Stoker's book Dracula for example which aren't remakes of 1931's film and 1922's classc Nosferatu but rather new separate adaptations of the source material, same goes for The Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man and I Am Legend all being separate adaptations of the same book l and have nothing to do with each other.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

While not the original, Fright Night was a solid remake.

 

[Sawyer]

Last House on the Left was a good remake. One of the better ones this past decade has seen.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Amityville Horror was better than the original lol

 

[StarLord]

I haven't seen the original, but I really like Scorsese's Cape Fear.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

While not the original, Fright Night was a solid remake.

I really enjoyed just about everything in the FRIGHT NIGHT remake. Shame it didn't set the box office on fire. I would love to see a film just on Tennant as Peter Vincent.

 

[Loki882]

Yes, the Fright Night remake was really good. Colin Farrell and David Tennant were clearly having a lot of fun with their roles, and Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse did really well as well. And Scorsese is always good, so Cape Fear is no exception.

And I cannot believe that I forgot about The Magnificent Seven, shame on me. The newer 3:10 to Yuma film, the one with Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, and Ben Foster, was quite good as well.

I tend to leave films like True Grit, Let Me In, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc off of the list as I don't really consider them remakes per se. They're simply alternate adaptations of the existing novels/source material. Ditto on comic book/superhero "reboots," as well as the Bond/Star Trek reboots.

 

[Hordakfan]

Yes, the Fright Night remake was really good. Colin Farrell and David Tennant were clearly having a lot of fun with their roles, and Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse did really well as well.

And I cannot believe that I forgot about The Magnificent Seven, shame on me.

I tend to leave out film like True Grit, Let Me In, etc because, while they're good movies, I don't really consider them "remakes" per se. They're simply new adaptations of the original novels/source material. Ditto on superhero/comic book movie "reboots."

Yet you got The Thing on there which isn't a remake but rather a new adaptation of the book Who Goes There, maybe you should get The Thing off your remake list since it's a separate adaptation of the book rather than a remake of the earlier film.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I really enjoyed just about everything in the FRIGHT NIGHT remake. Shame it didn't set the box office on fire. I would love to see a film just on Tennant as Peter Vincent.

Yep, I loved that it didn't try to be the original, just its own thing. Due to crappy marketing / twilight, pretty sure the GA wasn't too thrilled about another Vampire movie...