Youre done with it yet you constantly bring it up.
Also Bela Lugosi is Dracula but that didnt stop Christopher Lee making the part his own did it?
You've also never answered why you simply cant stop watching these films? If you have no interest in anymore then why not just stop watching them?
Except Dracula is a literary character and anyone can play him and Pennywise is a literary character from a book so anyone can play him.
People are actually defending recasting iconic film characters with different actors. And even more so with the recent release of Solo. They actually think that all film characters are fair game for a new actor portraying them.
And it's fine that they feel that way. But me and one of my youtube friends Mike (Ocpcommunications) vehemently disagree and we just don't understand. Sure. there are exceptions, like Bond or characters from novels or regular books or comic books. But for the most part, me and him want beloved film characters to remain pure and untouched by half-assed or horrible attempts to recapture lightning in a bottle.
Some roles have actors that were born to play them and there really are no substitutes. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Peter Weller as RoboCop, Bill Murray as Peter Venkman, Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger are all examples of this. And any actor that will attempt to play the character will pale in comparison. They have the charisma and personality that is unique only to them and that is what makes these characters so iconic and what brought them to life.
And don't give me the "They will make it their own" response. Make it their own means they will take the character and make it something completely alien to the character we all know and love in order to separate it from the original, potentially swap the genders, or just half-heartedly attempt to capture the same magic.
We have never seen a single remake or reboot with an iconic character or film have a lead that is anywhere near as memorable or as effective as the original for these same reasons. The track record is abysmal and that is why I don't agree with the idea of every character in every film is fair game for a re-imagining.
What's the better option, continue to dig up popular characters out of the grave every ten or twenty years and try to do the impossible and find the perfect actor to play the role again, or stop doing that and put that effort into finding new characters for a new generation?
There need to be limits. Otherwise, you get some bloated dude as Pinhead and a crispy frog faced Freddy who sounds like Sling blade. We would rather these iconic characters be retired on film and only brought back in books, comics, and video games then see lazy attempts by Hollywood to bring them back with new faces in "new" films just to piggyback off the success of the previous franchise.
Let these characters that you love die and become legends, instead of live forever and become total jokes and nothing but hollow cash grabs.
But if this new Halloween film is truly THE LAST Halloween movie, i hope Laurie just KILLS Michael ONCE and FOR ALL and have him thrown into a lawnmower or a grinding meat machine at the end so he would never ever come back and be destroyed once and for all, this time for good if Carpenter promises this to be the last one.
