whynotsmile

in 20-30 years, when they are remaking movies that are fairly new now...what do you think will be re-made? what would you like to see be re-made?

RichC2

American or Worldwide?

Mr. and Mrs. Smith
The Longest Yard
Oceans Eleven
28 Days Later...
The Beach (into a good movie)
Requiem for a Dream (as a Musical)
King Kong
The Score
The Stepford Wives
The Italian Job
The Island

Mountain Biker

Lord of the Rings

FinkPish

Good lord, do we need a remake subforum?

Deftones

Soul Plane has the makings of a killer remake.

PopcornTreeCt

The Matrix and Jurassic Park. Hopefully.

Ruderic

Wild Wild West

In several years... Spiderman

Nesbit

Idealy I think remaskes should be done of films that have a wonderful idea and terrible execution. On that line I have:
Death to Smoochy and Welcome to Mooseport

The Bus

I still think I could succesfully helm the remake of Jurassic Park. As a huge fan of the book, I was extremely disappointed in the movie, which contained maybe about 25% of the book.

The Bus

Oh, and Odishon will be remade.

Dr. DVD

Fast and the Furious
Tomb Raider

RichC2

I'd love a remake of that.

Actually, I'd love to do a remake of that.

whoopdido

Honestly, how many movies are even close to 100% faithful to the book? I loved Jurassic Park the movie and Jurassic Park the book. I just understand the fact that they're two different mediums. A movie based off a book is really just the director's interpretation of the book and he'll change, add or take out what he feels is neccessary to make a good movie. If you want a page by page retelling of the book then more than likely you'll just have to stick with the book. Besides, most books are so much information in them that the movie would be 10 hours long. How are you supposed to translated 500-600 pages into a 2 hour movie? Just because something works in written form doesn't mean it can be translated to a movie.

DRG

American Pie
The Blair Witch Project
Meet the Parents
The Hulk

(okay, much longer than 5 years) Clerks

Rypro 525

or you could have the 4 and a half hour stephen king version of the Shining if you want a 100% translation of hte book to screen.

Drop

That was also a made for TV deal, and Jurassic Park would require a very big budget. Especially when you consider some of the stuff in that book. I don't care if it is 25 years from now, made for TV stuff (minus the premiums) will always look cheap.

Legolas

20-30 years? You just know they'll take something like Fargo or LA Confidential and stick the latest Ashton Kutcher in it with a more "contemporary flavor."

Drexl

Finally, the Dancing Dildos from The First Nudie Musical will return!

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is so generically titled that I could see someone making another movie with that title at some point, but it may not have anything to do with the film currently in theaters.

Legolas

You must really hate the Bourne movies then. Or any movie based on a Clancy novel. Do you honestly want a movie that contains 100% of the book? They're two different mediums. It's called an adaptation for a reason. You should probably stay far away from Da Vinci Code too.

GuessWho

these ARE remakes

PopcornTreeCt

The Lord of the Rings movies captured the essence of the books. So please let's stop with the book cannot be filmed excuses.

DonnachaOne

Any of them that made a lick of money.

whoopdido

Captured the essence yes, but a 100% faithful retelling of the Lord of Rings would not only be impossible to film, it would be 25 hours long and cost 1 billion dollars.

RichC2

And both The Longest Yard (Mean Machine) and King Kong (erm.. King Kong) have other remakes.

Remakes like to get remade.

TheGodfather

[fingers crossed]Star Wars eps 1-2[/fingers crossed]