Remake City!!!
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Remake City!!!
So- this year's gonna see remakes of at least three uber-classics:
Death Race 2000 (with Jason Statham as Frankenstein!)
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
I'm kinda psyched about the first and maybe a little miffed about the second two. Thoughts?
Death Race 2000 (with Jason Statham as Frankenstein!)
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
I'm kinda psyched about the first and maybe a little miffed about the second two. Thoughts?
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Originally Posted by riotinmyskull
they're also remaking IT'S ALIVE
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Originally Posted by wm lopez
The Day the Earth Stood Still seems pointless for Hollywood to remake since the Democrats are going to take over the White House.
Jesus Titty-Fucking Christ. And people say that liberals are the ones that feel the need to inject their opinions into every single conversation no matter how unrelated.
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Does this mean Hollywood's completely out of ideas? Or are they just getting REALLY lazy?
Is this it? Is this the end of the film industry? Where has all the creativity gone?! And yes, I understand it's a business, but for fucks sakes!! Doesn't EVERYONE and their mother in Hollywook have a script they're trying to get produced?
When did all this start? The 80s were all about the glut of horror sequels, but when "the remake" become such the norm?
Is this it? Is this the end of the film industry? Where has all the creativity gone?! And yes, I understand it's a business, but for fucks sakes!! Doesn't EVERYONE and their mother in Hollywook have a script they're trying to get produced?
When did all this start? The 80s were all about the glut of horror sequels, but when "the remake" become such the norm?
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Originally Posted by Kudama
So- this year's gonna see remakes of at least three uber-classics:
Death Race 2000 (with Jason Statham as Frankenstein!)
Scanners
&
The Day the Earth Stood Still
I'm kinda psyched about the first and maybe a little miffed about the second two. Thoughts?
Death Race 2000 (with Jason Statham as Frankenstein!)
Scanners
&
The Day the Earth Stood Still
I'm kinda psyched about the first and maybe a little miffed about the second two. Thoughts?
:quickly backs away:
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
The Day The Earth Stood Still is pretty much perfect the way it is. It's like someone remaking The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca. They can make it LOOK better, but it won't BE better.
Madonna wants to remake Casablanca - and of all the places in all the world, she plans to set it in war-torn Iraq
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Last updated at 21:16pm on 29th March 2008
Play it again Madge: Madonna is hoping to resurrect her ailing film career
It is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden era, a triple Oscar-winning classic with electrifyingly charismatic stars and a script bursting with memorable lines.
But now Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.
The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.
A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said: "She is still determined to make it in the movies.
"She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time."
In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick.
Madonna is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.
The source said: "Madonna is talking about taking the Ingrid Bergman role for herself, even though Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50.
"She wants to update the story and maybe set it in a modern war zone such as Iraq. There is no script yet.
"Madonna and her people are testing the waters to see if this is the right vehicle for her and if a major studio will get behind the project."
The movie, which regularly tops lists of the greatest films ever made, includes the classic song As Time Goes By and memorable quotes such as: "Here's looking at you, kid", "We'll always have Paris" and "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine".
But one of the lines most closely associated with Casablanca – "Play it again, Sam"– is a misquotation. In fact, Ilsa says: "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake. Play it, Sam." Later, Rick says: "You played it for her and you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"
Bollywood filmmaker Rajeev Nath is also said to be working on a remake set in India, calling it "a tribute to the original".
A spokeswoman for Madonna refused to comment. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1773
By CAROLINE GRAHAM - More by this author »
Last updated at 21:16pm on 29th March 2008
Play it again Madge: Madonna is hoping to resurrect her ailing film career
It is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden era, a triple Oscar-winning classic with electrifyingly charismatic stars and a script bursting with memorable lines.
But now Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.
The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman.
A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said: "She is still determined to make it in the movies.
"She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time."
In the 1942 original, Bergman starred opposite Humphrey Bogart, who played Rick Blaine, a cynical bar owner in the Moroccan city of Casablanca in the early days of the Second World War. Ilsa is torn between love for her husband, a Czech Resistance leader, and her ex-lover Rick.
Madonna is said to believe the film will make her reputation as an actress, after a string of high-profile flops such as Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence and Swept Away, her much-derided 2002 collaboration with husband Guy Ritchie.
The source said: "Madonna is talking about taking the Ingrid Bergman role for herself, even though Bergman was in her 20s when she played Ilsa and Madonna is nearly 50.
"She wants to update the story and maybe set it in a modern war zone such as Iraq. There is no script yet.
"Madonna and her people are testing the waters to see if this is the right vehicle for her and if a major studio will get behind the project."
The movie, which regularly tops lists of the greatest films ever made, includes the classic song As Time Goes By and memorable quotes such as: "Here's looking at you, kid", "We'll always have Paris" and "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine".
But one of the lines most closely associated with Casablanca – "Play it again, Sam"– is a misquotation. In fact, Ilsa says: "Play it once, Sam, for old times' sake. Play it, Sam." Later, Rick says: "You played it for her and you can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"
Bollywood filmmaker Rajeev Nath is also said to be working on a remake set in India, calling it "a tribute to the original".
A spokeswoman for Madonna refused to comment. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1773
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The remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth also comes out this year
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I wouldn't mind a Star Wars remake. I'm serious...
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they are actually remaking 'Rififi'... 'RIFIFI'!!!! Dassin's masterpiece...
makes me sick...
with freaking Al Pacino... which gives it zero chance in my book...
Pacino, who will over-act the whole damn thing... with his 3 inch high "i'm not bald and these aren't transplants" hairdo ass...
makes me sick...
with freaking Al Pacino... which gives it zero chance in my book...
Pacino, who will over-act the whole damn thing... with his 3 inch high "i'm not bald and these aren't transplants" hairdo ass...
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!
THE BIRDS
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
HELLRAISER
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
NEAR DARK
ROSMARY'S BABY (IN TALKS)
SUSPIRIA
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No New Ideas what so ever. It ant nuttin but a remake thang UGGG
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!
THE BIRDS
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
HELLRAISER
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
NEAR DARK
ROSMARY'S BABY (IN TALKS)
SUSPIRIA
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No New Ideas what so ever. It ant nuttin but a remake thang UGGG
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Originally Posted by miz.eerie
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!
THE BIRDS
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
HELLRAISER
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
NEAR DARK
ROSMARY'S BABY (IN TALKS)
SUSPIRIA
-----------
ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES!
THE BIRDS
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
HELLRAISER
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT
NEAR DARK
ROSMARY'S BABY (IN TALKS)
SUSPIRIA
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