Remakes and Adaptations You'd Like to See

[The Morningstar]

escape from new york they tried for awhile but never got it going!they have remade all of carpenters movie might as well do this one too!

The remakes of Carpenter's films haven't been good though. I'd rather they not try any more.

 

[:eek:]

This book needs to be made into a movie:

http://www.amazon.com/Ass-Goblins-Auschwitz-Cameron-Pierce/dp/1933929936

 

[rayc1971]

The remakes of Carpenter's films haven't been good though. I'd rather they not try any more.

yeah you got a point! i like rob zombies holloween though! the thing -the fog-sucked!

 

[lordofthenerds]

A reboot of Robocop.

 

[Donnie Darko]

I'd still be good with a one shot Highlander remake. I liked the movie, but I feel like the concept could be done even better, especially with modern production.

 

[protocida]

^ Highlander is getting a remake.

And I'd go for Scanners. With Mark Strong replacing Michael Ironside as Darryl Revok.

 

[BruceWanner]

^ Highlander is getting a remake.

It is? Has there been any news on who's attached?

 

[The Morningstar]

Vertigo's Sandman written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Terry Gilliam! I must see this in live action before i die.

 

[8wid]

Star Wars where the character of Yoda is eliminated. Ben does not die in the first movie, Wookies replace the Ewoks on Endor, Vader's Super Star Destroyer replaces the Second Death Star in the third movie, throwing out the plot Anakin was knocked into a molten pool by his master during a duel, and Boba Fett was a special assasin for the Empire and not a bounty hunter etc. The prequels only exist in flashbacks as well.

 

[protocida]

^ What's the point of that?

 

[8wid]

^It fixes the problems of the first set of movies.

 

[BruceWanner]

Vertigo's Sandman written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Terry Gilliam! I must see this in live action before i die.

Terry Gilliam is the perfect director for Sandman! Spot on!

 

[Sawyer]

Stephen King's The Stand. HBO. 10 part miniseries.

 

[rogue trooper]

Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Please, Tim Burton, do this one!! Just, this time, try a different lead other than Johnny Depp. Clive Owen or Daniel Craig for the title role.

 

[protocida]

^It fixes the problems of the first set of movies.

Not really.

 

[Boom]

I'm on a Lovecraft binge:

Feature films
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Short films
The Haunter of the Dark
The Dunwich Horror

 

[Jochimus]

^It fixes the problems of the first set of movies.

...you're George Lucas, aren't you?

 

[Jochimus]

Seriously, though, one thing pretty weird I wouldn't mind seeing would be a PG-13 Scooby-Doo film cut from the same cloth as "Ghostbusters" and "Gremlins", in which the funny parts are truly funny and the scary parts are truly scary, and Scooby speaks in his familiar grunts and yelps and sounds that might sound A BIT like words but doesn't actually talk, at least in full sentences, anyway. WB/HB has enough animated stuff for the kids, they may as well aim a little older. I wouldn't be averse to it being set in the early '70s, either.

For that matter, I'd also have no problem with a live-action H-Bverse which starts in a world in which the more 'straight' characters like Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, etc. exist, but as the result of time-travel shenanigans in one of the movies, there comes to be an alternate/parallel world in which evolution has been so affected by whatever happened that dinosaurs coexist with literate humans (hence, the Flintstones) and which ultimately evolves into a world populated by talking animals as well as humans (Yogi, Snagglepuss, Jabberjaw, etc.). I can't help it, I've been on a POTA binge the last couple days.

 

[Lord]

Has there ever been a big The Call of Cthullu movie? Well, there was that 2005 silent film, but i think it should be done by a big studio and a good director

 

[The Guard]

There's a SciFi one that was made recently, but it wasn't very good. Guillermo Del Toro was trying to make a bid budget version of AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS for years.

 

[Bruce Banner]

Stephen King's Salem's Lot. As a 70's period piece that it requires.


As you guys mentioned, the works of Lovecraft would be great to see.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I'd like to see a movie or miniseries of Luke Rhinehart's Dice Man. That'd be great if they did it properly.

 

[The /]

Maybe I'm alone, but I'd love to see the Power Ranger films rebooted. Whether it was in the style of the old films or a darker, more serious tone (This is what I'd like to see), I think it could really be cool to see them come back. I do know some people think that they should never be "dark" or "serious" because them being cheesy and "bad" is the whole point, but I really think something could be done in which the MMPR look way cooler than they ever used to.

Actually, I'm surprised that something like this isn't already in development. We know the Ninja Turtles are coming back. And Transformers was brought back. I see everything else is always getting brought back. Where are the Power Rangers at? We're a few years away from the twentieth anniversary of the first film. I just would have thought that something like this could be seen as a big franchise, if done right, but maybe I'm totally off on that.

 

[Gianakin_]

The Anne Rice vampire books. I wish they had made a franchise back then after IWTV. I would've loved to have seen Cruise in an adaptation of The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned. They should definitely do those, or even better, let me do them.

 

[Octoberist]

^It fixes the problems of the first set of movies.

Now I've seen everything. Why not just fix the prequels?