Your Reboots and Remakes

[Silvermoth]

I agree, it's too early for an Avengers reboot.

...

But since this is all a bit of fun, I'll recast it anyway!

Captain America - Sam Jaeger

Iron Man - Richard Coyle (I wanted to move Steve and Tony's age a bit closer)

Thor - Tom Hopper (No, he's not a wrestler turned actor, he studied drama at Bruford College)

Black Widow - Svetlana Khodchenkova

Hulk - Lee Pace

Ms Marvel - Kate Hudson

Black Panther - Elijah Kelley

 

[sideburnking]

I'm going a bit older with this one:
"The Phantom Tollbooth."
The book by Norton Juster was awesome, one of my all- time favorite children's books, and the original movie with Butch Patrick as the protagonist Milo and animation by Chuck Jones was very good, but it is most definitely showing its age.
Considering how much special effects animation and creature effects have evolved since then, I would LOVE to see what they could do with that story now.

 

[CConn]

Please don't start posting actor pics in my thread. It's the Internet equivalent of a toothache.

 

[Lord]

Metropolis could be epic if done right by a new Director, but it would have to be not only somebody with a passion and love for the original film but also a vision. Say whatever you can about Peter Jackson's King Kong but that was one of the best examples of what a remake must be like, follow what was interesting with the original and also improving elements.

 

[CConn]

But that's also exactly what I warn against; a pompous and overblown film by a director trying to make the movie more than it ever should be.

 

[Art Damage]

Give Del Toro the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and make it a full fledged R rated film. Get the tone and story from the original, bloody and cynical first run comic series.

 

[CConn]

Mmm, yes.

 

[Max J Power]

Good idea. A TMNT film done like the comics could be the homage/satire of gritty superhero movies in the way that the original comics were for the darker hero comics of the 80s.

 

[Zanham]

I want to reboot and remake everything ever done in the past, present, and future of all histories ever written as well as history unwritten.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I would have properly do a prequel to ANOES, with Jackie as Freddy but with a new story to it. It would be a combine sense of ANOES and Freddy's Dead backstory stuff.

I would have it as a pre married Donald Thompson (as played by Ray Stevenson) arriving in Springwood, where it basically him against Krueger, both on a friendly sense and him against the Springwood Slasher scale. And I would have Krueger, both as killer and member to the PTA and community. I would try and show that Freddy did have a life and that being a father and husband was the sanity in that life, until the cracks begun to happen.

Everything basically ends with a massive fight that leads to Freddy's arrest due to kidnapping baby Nancy (since she would be the void that Freddy's daughter left after they took her away). However, since Donald arrested without a warrant, Freddy is a free man which leads to Donald and the parents burning Freddy, with the film ending with Freddy swearing eternal vengeance.

 

[Gianakin_]

Say whatever you can about Peter Jackson's King Kong but that was one of the best examples of what a remake must be like, follow what was interesting with the original and also improving elements.

Actually, KK should be taught at film schools as what to avoid when trying to do a remake. Imo.

 

[Thundarr]

Actually, KK should be taught at film schools as what to avoid when trying to do a remake. Imo.

Actually, that would be Michael Bay's A Nightmare On Elm Street and Rob Zombies Halloween. IMHO anyway.

 

[Gianakin_]

Those, too.

 

[Thundarr]

I would have properly do a prequel to ANOES, with Jackie as Freddy but with a new story to it. It would be a combine sense of ANOES and Freddy's Dead backstory stuff.

I would have it as a pre married Donald Thompson (as played by Ray Stevenson) arriving in Springwood, where it basically him against Krueger, both on a friendly sense and him against the Springwood Slasher scale. And I would have Krueger, both as killer and member to the PTA and community. I would try and show that Freddy did have a life and that being a father and husband was the sanity in that life, until the cracks begun to happen.

Everything basically ends with a massive fight that leads to Freddy's arrest due to kidnapping baby Nancy (since she would be the void that Freddy's daughter left after they took her away). However, since Donald arrested without a warrant, Freddy is a free man which leads to Donald and the parents burning Freddy, with the film ending with Freddy swearing eternal vengeance.

I've had a very similar idea for a NOES prequel. I was gonna call it Elm Street: The Nightmare Begins. My story was almost the same as yours, except for Freddy kidnapping Nancy. And the parts taken from Freddy's Dead because let's face it, that movie was crap.

No, I'd take story elements from Episode 1 of Freddy's Nightmares and Issue 1 of Marvel's short lived NOES comic series from the early '90s. Have his victims all be the older siblings of Nancy, Tina, and all the kids in Dream Warriors. Show how he got arrested. Why he got set free. And how the parents of his victims track him down and burn him alive.

While I wouldn't make Freddy father, I might at least give him a wife or a girlfriend. Someone to "help him blend in". And as you say, have him behave friendly and helpful at first. But as the bodies begin to pile up, and the police and FBI begin to close in on him, his facade begins to crack and eventually falls apart.

As for casting? JEH is okay, but I'd rather bring back Robert Englund. The role doesn't require any fantastic fight scenes or anything, so age isn't really an issue. Besides, Wes Craven's original concept of Freddy was that he was a creepy old man. In fact, Robert almost didn't get the part because Wes thought he was too young. So a 60 year old Robert Englund playing an unburnt Freddy should work just fine.

 

[Jack Bauer]

Hmm, that all works pretty well. And Robert would likely do it in a flash. Though I think the reason why I used Freddy's Dead is because there is so much they could have done with the flashbacks. So, why not fully invest in a Elm Street movie where its about Freddy rising.

 

[Lord]

Actually, KK should be taught at film schools as what to avoid when trying to do a remake. Imo.

What was the problem? It followed the story and at the same time had original elements, the effects were the best this generation could have at the time, and the actors were good, not to mention that there were some nods to the time when the events of the film happened

 

[Silvermoth]

I would be kind of interested in seeing a non Russian version of the 'Night Watch' books by Sergei Lukyanenko. I've never seen fantasy and the cold war mixed so well and there's so much potential for a James Bond meets Snow White type movie.

 

[Gianakin_]

What was the problem? It followed the story and at the same time had original elements, the effects were the best this generation could have at the time, and the actors were good, not to mention that there were some nods to the time when the events of the film happened

Kong's FX were great, the dinosaurs' were bad imo. Jack Black was miscast, the characters were completely uninteresting and bland to me, despite the fact that PJ tried to present them otherwise. The pacing of it was the perfect example of how not to edit a movie. And the attempt to present the state of the world then went nowhere, it was typical PJ trying to blackmail emotion out of the viewer just for the f**k of it.

To be completely honest here, I'm rambling more about the movie itself than it's merit as a remake. But even then, what the original did effectively and in a very straightforward way, this one was pompous and bloated.

Disclaimer: I think any remake is a lose-lose situation. If you're too close to the original you're lazy, if you change too much you're direspectful. I don't like remakes in general.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Hey! I cried when the big Ape died King Kong is the best performance Andy Serkis has ever given imo

But since I haven't seen anyone else say it....Nolan can do a Blade Runner remake.

 

[Gianakin_]

I cried when big Ape died, too. And Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges were trying to get to him.

 

[Lord]

Hey! I cried when the big Ape died King Kong is the best performance Andy Serkis has ever given imo

But since I haven't seen anyone else say it....Nolan can do a Blade Runner remake.

He's rather do Blade Runner 2

 

[Roose Bolton]

He can do whatever the hell he wants with a vest like his.

I cried when big Ape died, too. And Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges were trying to get to him.

I actually laughed out loud. Thank you

 

[Incrediblejeff]

I would love a Metropolis remake.I love the original,and I think a well done remake done by someone like Terry Gilliam would be amazing.

I also would love to see a new Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

 

[CConn]

Kong's FX were great, the dinosaurs' were bad imo. Jack Black was miscast, the characters were completely uninteresting and bland to me, despite the fact that PJ tried to present them otherwise. The pacing of it was the perfect example of how not to edit a movie. And the attempt to present the state of the world then went nowhere, it was typical PJ trying to blackmail emotion out of the viewer just for the f**k of it.

To be completely honest here, I'm rambling more about the movie itself than it's merit as a remake. But even then, what the original did effectively and in a very straightforward way, this one was pompous and bloated.

Disclaimer: I think any remake is a lose-lose situation. If you're too close to the original you're lazy, if you change too much you're direspectful. I don't like remakes in general.

I disagree. Look at the various versions of Dracula that were remade numerous times I the 20th century. They all stuck to the same story, but each one had its own spirit and focus that distinguished it from all of the others, and made each version worthwhile.

The good versions did, at least.

 

[Octoberist]

I thought Jackson's Kong was admirable but very indulgent.