I want a Conan TV series in the vein of GoT. The series will guest feature Arnold as Old King Conan retelling his life's story for his chronicler. The first episode will be the birth of Conan in the mountains of Cimmeria. The first season will be Conan growing up in Cimmeria until he is in his late teens. What do you guys think?
Yes, from what I've heard Arnold will play an older Conan who has been King for many years. Haven't heard about a younger Conan, though. I am going to see this movie whenever it comes due to my love of Conan the Barbarian but I think Conan could really work as a TV show.
That sounds like a good idea, but Hyboria really isn't a complex fantasy setting like Westeros is, so I don't know if it could sustain a show. Standalone movies would probably work better, I just wish they would be made.
Nudity is not an immediate red flag, and then death of a video, on TH-cam. Context matters. There's plenty of videos of breast feeding, and breast augmentation. However, a rap video with titties hanging out at a pool party is likely to get censored or removed. It's all in their public policy.
Lord Tippington the Wise - Atheist Knight of Le Reddit Gentlesirs I wonder if it has anything to do with the number of people who flag a video. I've seen nudity and sexual situations in You Tube videos that can seem pretty surprising sometimes.
So, in short, a remake has to either have a passion for the original, have a flawed original or both? Seem like fine reasons to me. Better than pure greed.
I want to see a remake of: 1. "Hancock" as a superhero satire (a satiric way of the superhero concept) made by Edgar Wright 2. "Waterworld" as a full developed post-apocalypse-film written and directed by Christopher Nolan 3. "Mortal Kombat" (The Movie) written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Rated R and least as violent/bloody as the games)
mortal kombat is needed. idk if u seen the "trailer like" mk thing that was on youtube yrs back but it gave "real word" explanations/settings, that would be great but i would still want a game based movie more i think.
Del Toro should be banned from making anything with movies. Hancock is also shit. Waterworld is nothing to be changed upon, and for MK.... You need a timemachine and make the Rebirth done.
I really, really, _really_ want an R-Rated Mortal Kombat movie. Because that PG-13 shit ain't cutting it for me. Yeah, I get the appeal for the classic 1995 movie, but I still didn't like it.
Dark and atmospheric Resident Evil movie with slow but very gory action scenes, more focused on the paranoia and despair of the characters as they investigate the mystery around the zombie outbreak and the weird mansion they are stuck in.
+KissingZombie's Channel Although I like the old games and the two movies (guilty pleasure), I don't think you should make a film based on the first game. Many thinks like the puzzles just don't make sense from a story perspective. Hell, a faithful adaption of any of the games seems difficult to me for the same reason. Too much gamey stuff that occupy the player for a lot of the time are neither logical nor interesting for watching. If you really want to make a RE-movie, Zero and maybe 4 might be more interesting, although Zero would look like a ripoof of Train to Busan and 4 needs a makeover^^ But a guy stranded in a hostile village sounds much more interesting. And the cthulhu-like cult could be wonderful^^ And sorry for being an ass, but what made the original game so great?^^
This may be an unpopular opinion but i believe that R7 would make the best Resident Evil Movie if done correctly, even though i would die to see "Jill Sandwich" on the big screen.
I have been thinking that too. With climate change becoming more prevalent, the movie's setting is becoming more relevant. I think the original is quite too 1970's weird for today's audiences. Of course, like with every remake, it needs to be done _right_, as a drama. It can't be treated like the latest Marvel Movie.
Resident evil should be remade and Paul Anderson should be issued a restraining order from the production. Make it a closed door haunted house horror with the series iconic stationary cameras. Don't make it a series of films, no over arching plot. Just good horror
I agree - at first I thought "what a dumb idea to make a serious Evil Dead movie - it's like making a serious remake of a comedy" - but the end result was pretty cool.
Favorite reboot of a beloved franchise in recent memory has to be The Evil Dead remake in 2013. They did an amazing job with it and looking at the behind the scenes stuff you can tell that Producers/Director/Actors (especially jane levy as Mia) were nothing BUT passionate about making that film. And it worked.
Dear Hollywood, please remake either one of these movies which had great concepts but flawed execution: - Spawn - Alien vs. Predator - I am Legend - Johnny Mnemonic - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Hansel & Gretel: Witchhunters I think that's all for now since "Stephen King's IT" and "Tomb Raider" luckily are already getting remade.
Exactly. Fucking EXACTLY. I'd gladly embrace ALL remakes if they are made with heart and passion and an actual creative mind that wants to offer a new spin. Instead most of the time they're just cash-ins to get money from a known title, and they're not even well made.
I think Time Cop should be remade. Good concept, bad execution. If they get a good actor and a screenplay which can thrown some complexity into it. It can be good.
If he makes it more true to the book it would be worth it. The original film only covers half of the book. The second half has Bastion in Fantasia going on a crazy power trip and starting a war.
Remakes of *LOGAN'S RUN (1976) & FLASH GORDON (1980)* from a Director with a powerful vision and intense passion, would be Fantastic !! I really like the original films, tho they can certainly be improved upon...
I agree with you with the exception of Starship Troopers. A film that is more faithfull to the books would be faaaar more interesting to wacht than the original, a quite flaw film. If the politics of the book is what bugs you, a film that is objective about the setting and lets the audience decided would perfectly work. You can even do a good satire while being faithfull to the books. Putting that aside, I would prefere a miniseries over a film.
A miniseries would be perfect. The thing that made the book interesting was the universe and seeing the philosophy behind it. It doesn't really work as a single overarching story but rather just observing the change of a humble fellow from the Phillipines to a galaxy trotting badass space marine while showing the value of the human spirit regardless of creed or skin color. It's my favorite book for a reason.
Skyler Tesar It definitely deserves the mini-series treatment. I love the movie but other than the title and a few plot points there's nothing in common.
Chaplain Tappman I'd love for them to do an episode about the 1/500 bullet training thing. Like it's the perfect subplot or flashback thing for an episode. They have sharpshooters firing on them an one in five hundred shots is a live round while the rest are blanks. And the only person that dies in the training was due to him rolling too aggressively. It's the perfect melancholy way to end a small story. You probably already knew that but it's my favorite part of the book and I love talking about it.
I love your videos, as I mentioned last weekend, and I realize that it's because your thoughts are so articulate and on-point. Couple that with well-placed clips of movies I genuinely love, played at exactly the right times to accentuate your thoughts, and it's a perfect combination of education and entertainment regarding my favorite subject -- film. You have a true fan, now. :)
There has indeed been talk of it... I have to admit, I would love to see a remake of that... I just hope they don't screw with teh story too much as it was simple and perfect as it was... Its only issue is it is dated!!!
I would love to remake really old, experimental silent films from the earliest days of cinema. 1890-1920, those years. Bizarre, dream-like stories with insane, mind-bending visuals for the time would be fantastic to see again with today's technology.
I really want to remake From Beyond, to me it was the creepiest Lovecraft story I've read but the low budget film based off it is terrible. There is also a lot of potential with its concept about a machine that blends our universe with another that's filled with monsters.
They should make The Crow a short series, like on Netflix or something. The chapter/issue format would suit it well and it'd be just different enough from the movie that it wouldn't feel like a re-hash.
I'd love to see a take on The Thing that focuses more on the psychological horror over the body horror. There's an idea that I think is very important to the premise, but that the films never really explore: that you could already have been taken over by the Thing and _not know it_. That the creature can manipulate your memory and perception, and your whole mind and consciousness is just a simulacrum that could be erased any moment if the creature decides to take over. The blood test scene would be less "find the traitor" and more like some horrible AIDS test, where you learn that you're already dead, you just don't know it yet. Basically the human experience of mortality and fragility turned up to 11, plus an examination of the meaning of consciousness and identity.
One thing that I think would be interesting would be _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_, but without kiddifying it all and making it über-family-friendly, and instead going for the tone of the original comics (which were apparently more violent than televised and film versions of the franchise). The 1990 film had elements of the right stuff (including support from the brilliant - and sadly now defunct - Golden Harvest studio) but by the studio pandering to the parents that complained that it was too dark and violent for their children when it came to making the sequels it just feels like a missed opportunity.
I'd have a go at falling down if I was a director. Brilliant concept and I'd like to try to modernise it while still keeping the topic universal so it doesn't get dated.
I love the remake of The Mummy (1999) but think the original from 1932 is good. I can't decided if I like the original or 2005 remake of King Kong more. I would like to see Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver re-adapted because the film versions did not get the stories or the tone right.
Also, as much as I LOVE NIGHTBREED! That's a film I've always dreamed of remaking! Calibrating some of its convoluted story, minimizing some of the film's blockbuster approach, leaning closer to the tone of the novel, maintaining the use of practical effects and developing it into the franchise it deserved to be. And I'd fight to give it an hard R rating.
The only movies that should be remade are those that had a great or ambitious concept, but we're executed poorly or could have been done better with a bigger budget. Personally I want to see a remake of Event Horizon.
not a remake, only a sequel, at the end they escape in the life Pod. Even Horizon II. Another distress signal is sent to a nearby space crew, The pod landed on another ship that is sending the distress signal. easy Sequel. This time there is no reactor the first ship brought back a demon energy from beyond space and time.
Ive been saying it for years, but here i go again. Crossover of The Incredible shrinking man/The Fly! -At the end of ISM when he slides thru the screen, he finds the "white head fly" and rescues him from that nasty spider. They become friends as the ISM rides around on They Fly (lol) and eventual shrinks away into oblivion. only after the ICM finds a way to show that he and the fly guy are still alive. By spelling it out with cheerios or whatever. ...something like that
Yeh, although instead of using Cheerios they should have a barcode pattern that appears in shadow on the floor combined with a watch that ticks with morse code that a young girl picks up (because that's the only way anyone can understand what Matthew McConaughey is saying...) on a dying planet while her father jouneys through a wormhole that opens near Saturn to where the ISM has journey through the quantum foam because he's Freddy Kreuger....
Daniel Moreno absolutely, the infernal affair was about the struggles and suffering of working undercover, the things you have to do to maintain identity and be burdened about. the departed lacks this part entirely, making it a cat and mouse comedy that gives you little sense of respect for any character.
I also preferred Infernal Affairs, but that's not saying The Departed was a bad movie. And it did give us the character of Dignam, who wasn't in the original.
I thought the Departed was a really dumbed down version, compared to Infernal Affairs they stripped the characters of any depth, instead of grey we got one dimensional black and white
I'd say remake Stalker. The original is a classic, but it's certainly not for everyone, but the idea is so appealing that its a shame we don't have a more approachable version. As much as I like Stalker, it really heavy. I think that somebody like Inarritu + Lubezki would make a hell of a job making it a modern sci-fi masterpiece.
Same could be said about Solaris (also filmed by Tarkovski) - and I choose to ignore the George Clooney movie... uh. Tarkovski's visions are amazing and very philosophic but I'd like to see more appealing versions.
That's the problem though isn't it. Even if the director (or whoever) wants to tell a different story based on the source material eventually the studio says make it more like the original movie.
As much as I loved Mars Attacks, I would love to see a remake/sequel more true to the trading cards with lots of over the top gore. It would also be cool to repeat what the original did, to get all the big movie stars of the time and kill them all off for the pure schadenfreude. Imagine that with today's big actors.
Seamus McFlanery Not at all. The ideas behind these three are to show a terror that's beyond human comprehension, and although I haven't seen Prince of Darkness, the other two don't need to be remade because they weren't executed poorly besides a handful of scenes from event horizon.
I've always wanted to remake the early 80s slasher movie FADE TO BLACK. A narrative with great ideas, great scenes and an awesome lead performance. It's just some of its subplots, pacing and visual direction left me with a lot to be desired. I'd honestly take it into a different genre, instead of it being about a vengeful sexually repressed movie nerd, mine would be a romantic comedy about a woman working in a video store in the 90s. She'd be obsessed with movies, hoping that her next love interest would fall into the sentimental movie cliches she loves, her expectations would be done in classic film styles and contrast from her reality... I suppose it'd be less of a remake and more of a movie done in a similar genre, like I Wanna Hold Your Hand vs Detroit Rock City.
LOL! While I do agree... I must be fair to Lucas, I sort of get what he was aiming for... Where do all wars start? Not on a Battle field but by Men in High Places with Agendas... So his heart was in the right place - but thats BORING AS SHIT!!! He pout way too much focus on the politics... While essential to understand, it did not need to be the majority of the damn films!!!!
+Warren Marris whether an idea is good or bad doesn't matter. The execution does. The execution is more important than the idea. George Lucas gave the prequels interesting ideas with really poor execution.
DafuqImmaDoing absolutely... I feel live gets a little too much hate though. Honestly, even with the original trilogy, I think he was a man who needed his ambition reigned in... Hence Gary Kurtz ...
Sean Connery's Outland (1981) but that was basically a version of High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper. On a mining moon, Io, the Sheriff has to alone fight off the company (think Weyland-Yutani) bad guys; who are peddling a crazy addictive Nazi-crack type substance that turns the workers into psychos. It has elements of film noir, westerns and sci-fi and is one of the few sci-fis that doesn't have aliens for the villains.
I think a darker more grown up remake of Labyrinth would be good. The story of an immature spoiled child who hides in a fantasy world from the pervasive threat of growing up is forced to deal with a threatening but appealing older man who awakens not only her sexuality but a sense of responsibility and purpose that comes with adulthood, while also accepting her new family, step mom and step brother. I think the original Labyrinth hinted strongly at a number of psychological issues that young women entering adulthood might encounter, but kept it fairly light since it was for children. I'd like to see a version smart and meta enough for an older nostalgic crowd that is also suitable for a teen crowd, like a PG-13 version. NOT Tim Burton! No muppets, no songs. Sort of like what A Company of Wolves did for Red Riding Hood. Ok, maybe some muppets.
When I’m a successful writer director I want to remake “Robin and the 7 Hoods” - hear me out. The movie has very strong and funny scenes, as well as some fantastic songs: Mr B-O-O-Z-E, My Kind of Town and Style - but in other places it drags and the jokes don’t always hit very well, and that really breaks my heart because I remember seeing it once as a kid and loving it. The Rat Pack is the Rat Pack, you would never in a million years be able to recreate them, so the cast of the remake would still have their chemistry but just in different ways, with some crooners but also maybe some more modern R&B artists to spice it up a bit - the songs would still be solid crooning though, maybe a bit more “La La Land”-esque however to modernise. Some details I’d change: - Keep the songs above but scratch the others (I love Bang Bang but it just isn’t as strong as the rest), and compose new ones. - ensure the jokes are snappy and land much better - aim the movie at a PG or 12 rating, I thought the corpses inside concrete blocks was a bit morbid for a cheery musical - although was pretty badass at the end, if a bit last minute - make it clearer who the 7 hoods are, give them more dimension, and give the femme fatale much more sinister screen time - basically keep the Mr Booze scene the same because it’s awesome but make the editing a little snappier and the dancing more grand I mean I’m just hurling shit at a wall here to see what sticks but this was fun to think about.
Logan's Run is a great premise but really cheesy in its execution. I also feel its theme of "oppression via luxury" is pretty relevant in the 21st century.
Surrogates (2008). The concept (taken from a French graphic novel) was clever, almost like something out of Black Mirror, but it was framed like a dumb, loud action movie. Get a filmmaker like Alex Garland or Charlie Brooker to mine the idea of people living out their everyday lives through robotic surrogates, while their actual bodies are hooked up to a computer inside their house, crank up the dark satire and borderline psychological horror, and you'd have something good there.
First off, you've earned a new subscriber. Second, I would remake The Crow. Or I suppose, I'd rather reboot it. The comics had a big impact on my artstyle growing up and the subject matter shaped me as a person. I'd love to just create a huge storyboard and pitch it sometime. I think the primary draw of The Crow was the story of vengeance and setting oneself at peace. The visuals would of course be all practical, but at the very least, if not that, they'd be primarily practical. Even to fit the modern era, a movie like The Crow could be done without reference to the times. No cellphones and the like constantly shown. Perhaps the setting could be that of a run down city neighborhood like the original to inhibit the use of a lot of modern technology, rather focusing on the way the characters deal with their situation in this environment of broken down and wasteful debilitation. It's a story that is undeniably timeless and has spawned a few sequels, of which were in poor taste due to dwindling budget and teams that didn't care to create a new character. Why not have an abusive boyfriend or girlfriend who loses the one they love, then find out that they made a huge mistake and ended their own lives, only to return? Yeah, it's basically the same story, but it creates a NEW character, not just one with a new name in a new setting.
Starship Troopers could certainly use a remake (instead of it's obvious hatred of the source material) to tell a compelling story of an 18 year old from a wealthy family wanting to make his first real decision: 1) He enlists in the military of the world government 2) He is challenged by the training like he has never been before 3) He reflects upon his place in society as a member of the military and a citizen 4) He overcomes his fear of failure and death to become a part of a team 5) He realizes he is doing something important and necessary 6) He feels called to become an officer 7) He grows as a leader putting the mission and his men above his personal motivations 8) He comes to the conclusion some things are worth fighting for 9) As a Filipino he is proud of his heritage (as well of all the other troopers of theirs). Yeah, all fascist stuff... the ones that claim Robert Hienlein's book is fascistic are only those upset that he mocked Leftist thinking by saying their ideas were unscientific claptrap from the book's perspective in the far future. Read it for your selves and decide which story you would rather see (Heinlein's, with a unique future society you have NEVER seen portrayed in cinema or Verhoeven's satire that has nothing in common with the book, except the name).
Well I think some of the cheesy 1970s disaster films should get remade without bad CGI and with truly interesting characters. They tried with The Poseidon Adventure. I think the one (perhaps the cheesiest) to be remade should be Earthquake (1974). Just keep the darn CGI down to a minimum (CGI enhanced scale model work perhaps) and don't make half the planet split open.
Sweet, I'm a recent subscriber and I would love to hear what you have to say about the Raid. It's definitely up there as one of my favorite action films.
As a fan of the Starship Troopers book, I really cannot agree with you calling the book "right-wing racism" because I remember a specific part of the saying that signing up with the military was OPTIONAL, keyword: OPTIONAL and I know that an optional military service are almost never a thing for fascist countries. In fact, Heinlein was someone who was very vocal towards both right-wing and left-wing politics.
Ok serious one now actually, I think they should re-make "Where Eagles Dare" Eastwood could have a minor cameo role as an ageing Nazi or something like that
Ghostbusters (2016) was a studio-mandated thing that was going to happen SOMEDAY. My hat's off to them for taking a bullet with what was never going to be a particularly popular idea without the original cast in their same roles.
They could have made a great sequel. The New Adventures of Ghostbusters. Have the same cast except Aisha Tyler instead of Leslie Jones. Make Aisha a scientist and Mary Mccarthy the every person like Winston. Have Kate McKinnon be the daughter of Egon and Ghost are coming back into the world. She has to see her uncle Ray for answers and starts up the business again. Make it a passing the torch movie.
Hey Rossatron, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts about adaptations, too. What does or doesn't make a book-to-film adaptation great, what makes a book likely to be adapted in the first place, and what adaptations, if any, you'd like to see.
I'd make a good remake of the "The Thing" 2011 version, the prequel to john carpenters version, without jumpscares, CGI and hectic action, i'd make it somewhat similar to the john carpenters version.
Mazaroth They actually had really good practical effects on the set of the remake but decided to "enhance" them with CGI. That is what really bothers me.
The novel Starship Troopers was not fascistic or right wing. It presented a society where only veterans could vote. I wish the film had presented the ideas unbiased and let the viewer judge the merits of the society. I hope the new film would do this but I think the will focus on power suits since power suits are cool. Thanks for your essay. You made some great points.
Hey Rossatron. Did you get to see the movie Elite Squad, from the director of Robocop's remake? José Padilha? It's quite different to see working on an action movie without the studio interfering so much. Elite squad is a film that resembles much more the original Robocop than the remake, is action movie that explores social problems and criticizes society, and thats why i was hoping for a good remake... And Elite Squad is first time that the Padilha worked with the Wagner Moura (Escobar in Narcos).
I'm a big fan of both Elite Squad films. It's one of the main reasons I was upset to see Padilha so messed around by Hollywood, since the guy is clearly a real talent.
Since I'm Brazilian I'm suspicious when I say the movies are good. I've watched Sicario twice this year, I'm going to re-watch Elite Squad to see how good the movie works out compared to it. Anyway, I'm writing some of my stuff and although the media is not cinema, your videos end up giving a good insight into how to write action scenes. So, thanks for the good work!
Omg, The Valley of Gwangi! I saw that movie about ten years ago, namely because I was trying to watch some Ray Harryhausen stop motion flicks. It'd be perfect for a remake with today's special effects.
It's interesting, because I agree with pretty much everything you say here, but I disagree with you on specifics. I love that you used the phrase 'respecting the original', because I hated Starship Troopers - not that it was a bad movie, but that the only thing it owed to the novel was the name. No one would be remaking the Starship Trooper movie - they'd simply be making the movie of Starship Troopers and having respect for the source material. On the other hand, while Highlander might not have been a great movie, it was original in almost every since of the word. I discovered that movie by accident (theater hopping on my day off when I was 20 years old), and I was amazed by the things it did. I would like to see someone else with more skill and a bigger budget approach the same ideas, but there's no need to redo Highlander, because nothing they do can ever have the impact of the original.
Not a movie but the TV series Werewolf from the 80's. Janos Skorzeny was such a cool and terrifying villain. The plot could be greatly improved too since it was very simple to begin with (it essentially followed the Hulk's format of the hero running away from something, going from town to town, helping people)
Enter The Dragon is going to be remade: www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2157213/enter-dragon-remake-bruce-lee-must-be-spinning-his-grave-leave-kung The Exorcist has been rebooted into a TV show: www.bing.com/search?q=exorcist+remake&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=d99095a7507545fbb65c24de1bd66bce&cc=AU&setlang=en-US Wickerman has been remade: www.bing.com/search?q=The+Wicker+Man&filters=ufn%3a%22The+Wicker+Man%22+sid%3a%22ee52b60f-f296-1c4d-ba2a-56427e9b6816%22&FORM=SNAPST Rocky has also been remade: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Balboa_(film)
Some of the 80's action movies are full of great ideas, but pretty mediocre in their execution. I'd love to see a solid remake of The Last Starfighter and The Wraith. With a passionate director, they could go from good to amazing.
I know but the Hellraiser remake is in a development hell so long, even Barker was asked to write the script for it with a "threat" - If you wouldnt do it, someone else will do it worse than you. I really love to see the new adaptation of that story after so many bad sequels.
I guess it probably will be then. Like Halloween was. Then Friday the 13th. Then Nightmare On Elm Street. Oh well. Yes the sequels are mostly terrible. After 3 it got real bad. I think 4 was the last theatrical release for the series and it bombed bad. Was pulled in like 2 weeks where I live at least.
i would personally use old Analog filming equipment to give it the original 80's grit then transfer it to digital. Doug Bradley is 62 years old but i would not use any other actor as Pinhead. I really have invested much time in thinking of how I would start the story with a "collector" and a china man selling "the box"
No, no! They need to do it with an australian native lesbian-transgender-woman (a man operated to a woman who loves women) who is in a wheelchair, and is a neo-feminist activist who uses the influence to make all men operated to women. That's the only way.
Why do a remake when you can do a George Lucas esque re-edited 'Special Edition' that adds in CGI, color, and a lot of other pointless additions. And then make it very hard to get the original version. Far cheaper and more profitable.
Any single movie can and probably should be remade or retold. That is how storytelling developed. The same stories being retold over and over by multiple storytellers, some good, some bad, all blended over time to create the everlasting stories we know and love.
I largely agree, but I entirely disagree on Starship Troopers. I loathe Verhoevan's version; I feel he missed pretty much everything that made the book great - the ideas, not the power armour. He wanted to crap on Heinlein's ideas, and only made his own the weaker in doing it.
As much as I like some aspects of Starship Troopers, his politics got in the way of the movie. Veerhoeven read about two chapters and put the book down, because "muh fascists." He then decided to satirize it, except, since he hadn't read the book, he was actually satirizing a shallow charicature of what he imagined the book to be. This made the satire of the film very one-note, shallow, and obvious. In other words, it sucked. A shame, because the film had a lot of good elements.
Fascism and Nationalism aren't the same thing, just like Socialism and Communism are not the same thing and I completely disagree with your assessment of Starship Troopers. I think a faithful, patriotic telling of the source material would be interesting. Im going to guess, though, you think it's a bad idea because it will embolden Brexiters. This is like saying Wagner is a bad composer because Hitler liked his music. In other words, it's bullshit.
I can think of 2 challenges to this. One is the idea that movies that are certified perfect do not NEED to be remade. I always question that because I find the habit that many people have of saying that a movie "needs" or does not "need" to be made weird. Movies are entertainment. They don't need purpose. We make 'em because they're fun to make and fun to watch. Looking for purpose in a film is a business mindset, not a critical one. The other is the idea that remakes need to respect the source material. That excludes the potential of subversion and deconstruction that the remake can be used for. You brought up Starship Troopers and how it subverted the politics of the original novel by playing it as satire. If we applied your rule about remakes to book adaptations, Starship Troopers wouldn't exist. Other than that, I think this was a really well thought video.
Personally I'd like to see the Jurassic Park book being adapted into a mini series, I love the movie with a passion that I feel only the people who made it can have. But I'd like to see a book adaptation, more fateful then the movie. If that doesn't happen, I'm completely fine with it, personally I'd like to see it, I highly doubt there's an audience for seeing it being remade, and I can understand it. Honestly, I agree with the points you made in the video.
cafeterialoca prose. count the number of things introduced, and how many times theyre shown or mentioned tastefully. starter set: #1 the scissors #2 reflections
Its two ways you can develope Highlander as a concept, either you go for a straight drama of a man who lived for centuries, focusing on the issues of a individual who constantly loosing those he loves and care for. Otherwise you go for a straight action epic with sword fights settled in feudal japan (or something similar) throw in some quasi inspirations of a gladiator game concepts, ( might work regarding the concept of fighting other immortals for "the prize"). They need to develope the the motivations why immortals have to fight otherwise the concept will not work.
True Grit? The Fly? The Thing? The Ring? - Shit, even Charlton Heston's Ben Hur was a "remake"... It's honestly okay... For the right reasons, - but shit, if this 7 minute essay can't get to you, then I won't. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? No; not the right reasons....
So "The Thing from another World" should have never been remade by John Carpenter? Or "The Blob"-Remake from the 80s? Those were bad Movies? I didn't know. And call me a Heretic - I liked the "Evil Dead"-Remake as a more serious, yet still cheesy, take on the original Movies.
Those movies that have really, really good remakes needed remakes because just having a new idea wasn't good enough the first time they tried. Also, 9 out of 10 movies are terrible and unnecessary anyway. Original or otherwise.
movies that could be remade: The Keep High Spirits Nothing But Trouble Any Ed Wood movie Silent Running Logan's Run Howard the Duck Necronomicon I could probably go on. I think good criteria would be. 1. Don't remake any film that was universally loved. This is why you don't see direct remakes of wizard of Oz. 2. Does it have a message that's still relevant. See Silent Running. 3. Can you improve it as a movie, not just attempt to give it broad appeal/ marketability. 4. Can you present it in a new or unique way.
Would really love to see a Highlander remake with passion and creativity behind it. It's such an interesting concept that leaves so much to explore. Imagine how much a person who's lived for hundreds of years has seen and experienced. The original filmseries really screwed everything up with the crappy sequels, so it could really do with a remake/reboot to add a breath of fresh air. And here's hoping that they cast an actual scottsman to play the lead and not a frenchman (who could berley spek english at the time).
On of the best re-boots was Dredd 2012.
Surprised this wasnt mentioned on here. Dredd was SO good.
Hell yeah!
Yes! That movie was a success en every aspect, despite its low budget
YES
Dredd wasn't a reboot. Dredd is a comic book character. He didn't originate from the old shit movie.
I want a Conan TV series in the vein of GoT. The series will guest feature Arnold as Old King Conan retelling his life's story for his chronicler. The first episode will be the birth of Conan in the mountains of Cimmeria. The first season will be Conan growing up in Cimmeria until he is in his late teens. What do you guys think?
Aren't they doing this as King Conan? Or Conan the Conqueror or something. Arnold as the old Conan and someone else as the younger version?
Yes, from what I've heard Arnold will play an older Conan who has been King for many years. Haven't heard about a younger Conan, though. I am going to see this movie whenever it comes due to my love of Conan the Barbarian but I think Conan could really work as a TV show.
I love Conan and love your idea, but without Basil Poledouris writing the music, it's doomed to be "not as good" from the start.
The title I heard floating around was "The Legend of Conan"
That sounds like a good idea, but Hyboria really isn't a complex fantasy setting like Westeros is, so I don't know if it could sustain a show. Standalone movies would probably work better, I just wish they would be made.
They should remake The Star Wars Holiday Special
With that comment, you Sir, have become my hero.
They should remake the prequel trilogy, and forget about the Holiday Special. It should never have been made.
just dump the whole SW. It isn't worthy anymore. I won't even show the OT to my kids.
that's a shame that your kids will miss out on the original star wars trilogy, which was a life changing experience for me.
westingtyler ideas
u know the fact I got an upvote to the comment shows the situation with Star Wars.
So, normal boobs are a red flag for TH-cam but Total Recall…
The whole thing is a prosthetic, but I'm guessing triptits is confusing the detection algorithm.
Nudity is not an immediate red flag, and then death of a video, on TH-cam. Context matters. There's plenty of videos of breast feeding, and breast augmentation. However, a rap video with titties hanging out at a pool party is likely to get censored or removed. It's all in their public policy.
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I wonder if it has anything to do with the number of people who flag a video. I've seen nudity and sexual situations in You Tube videos that can seem pretty surprising sometimes.
So, in short, a remake has to either have a passion for the original, have a flawed original or both? Seem like fine reasons to me. Better than pure greed.
I want to see a remake of:
1. "Hancock" as a superhero satire (a satiric way of the superhero concept) made by Edgar Wright
2. "Waterworld" as a full developed post-apocalypse-film written and directed by Christopher Nolan
3. "Mortal Kombat" (The Movie) written and directed by Guillermo del Toro (Rated R and least as violent/bloody as the games)
mortal kombat is needed. idk if u seen the "trailer like" mk thing that was on youtube yrs back but it gave "real word" explanations/settings, that would be great but i would still want a game based movie more i think.
What if "Waterworld" is a prequel to "Mad Max"?
Yes, yes to all 3 of these.
Del Toro should be banned from making anything with movies. Hancock is also shit.
Waterworld is nothing to be changed upon, and for MK.... You need a timemachine and make the Rebirth done.
I really, really, _really_ want an R-Rated Mortal Kombat movie. Because that PG-13 shit ain't cutting it for me.
Yeah, I get the appeal for the classic 1995 movie, but I still didn't like it.
You should remake a movie that had a good concept or main idea but messed it up
CryntexOfficial I agree 100%
I'd go with Resident Evil, more faithful to the original 1994 game, directed by someone who actually understands what made the game so great...
Dark and atmospheric Resident Evil movie with slow but very gory action scenes, more focused on the paranoia and despair of the characters as they investigate the mystery around the zombie outbreak and the weird mansion they are stuck in.
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Although I like the old games and the two movies (guilty pleasure), I don't think you should make a film based on the first game. Many thinks like the puzzles just don't make sense from a story perspective. Hell, a faithful adaption of any of the games seems difficult to me for the same reason. Too much gamey stuff that occupy the player for a lot of the time are neither logical nor interesting for watching.
If you really want to make a RE-movie, Zero and maybe 4 might be more interesting, although Zero would look like a ripoof of Train to Busan and 4 needs a makeover^^ But a guy stranded in a hostile village sounds much more interesting. And the cthulhu-like cult could be wonderful^^
And sorry for being an ass, but what made the original game so great?^^
This may be an unpopular opinion but i believe that R7 would make the best Resident Evil Movie if done correctly, even though i would die to see "Jill Sandwich" on the big screen.
I'd love to see a Soylent Green remake with Bryan Cranston in the lead.
I have been thinking that too. With climate change becoming more prevalent, the movie's setting is becoming more relevant. I think the original is quite too 1970's weird for today's audiences.
Of course, like with every remake, it needs to be done _right_, as a drama. It can't be treated like the latest Marvel Movie.
Soylent Green was a statement about overpopulation and its effect on the environment, a topic that would be well received today.
Misterprickly and based closer on the book-so no soylent green is people twist.
i need a remake of They Live! but it has to come from an unknwon or someone who hates hollywood and wont back down
Misterprickly I feel like there's a danger that the twist would get leaked everywhere before it came out
Resident evil should be remade and Paul Anderson should be issued a restraining order from the production. Make it a closed door haunted house horror with the series iconic stationary cameras. Don't make it a series of films, no over arching plot. Just good horror
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Don’t worry, he’s making a Monster Hunter movie now.
I personally loved evil dead remake the practical effects were great and knew the gore level
That ending sequence with the chainsaw was something else.
Friendly Metroid damn right!
I agree - at first I thought "what a dumb idea to make a serious Evil Dead movie - it's like making a serious remake of a comedy" - but the end result was pretty cool.
Well actually jakub the first evil dead was rather serious and the subsequent ones went into action and then comedy.
agreed, computer fx fuck things up
Favorite reboot of a beloved franchise in recent memory has to be The Evil Dead remake in 2013. They did an amazing job with it and looking at the behind the scenes stuff you can tell that Producers/Director/Actors (especially jane levy as Mia) were nothing BUT passionate about making that film. And it worked.
it sucks, the only good reboot i know of is MADMAX fury roads
dai suke That's Not a Remake
Mad max fury road was retarded it ruined so many expectations
Dear Hollywood, please remake either one of these movies which had great concepts but flawed execution:
- Spawn
- Alien vs. Predator
- I am Legend
- Johnny Mnemonic
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Hansel & Gretel: Witchhunters
I think that's all for now since "Stephen King's IT" and "Tomb Raider" luckily are already getting remade.
DiamondDead You can't call a different adaptation a remake.
DiamondDead DearHollywood.
Please leave shit alone. You have no clue.
+DiamondDead; "- I am Legend" that was already the third film version of that story.
Todd McFarlane is redoing Spawn. Deadpool was kind of an indicator if it would float or flop.
Please don't do anything more with Alien vs Predator. It's dumb and kinda ruins both creatures
Exactly. Fucking EXACTLY. I'd gladly embrace ALL remakes if they are made with heart and passion and an actual creative mind that wants to offer a new spin. Instead most of the time they're just cash-ins to get money from a known title, and they're not even well made.
I think Time Cop should be remade. Good concept, bad execution. If they get a good actor and a screenplay which can thrown some complexity into it. It can be good.
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I didn't think A New Hope needed a remake, but The Force Awakens was entertaining enough.
Technically in that sense its a reboot, but yea.
it was a sequel stealing ideas from a previous movie.
Also, Westworld is a fantastic example of an original property that had a neat idea, where others took it and gave it a new and better life.
I want Guillermo del Toro to remake The Never Ending Story!
That is actually a terrifying and awesome idea.
The Never Ending Story was somewhat terrifying as a kid. But awesome! ;)
If he makes it more true to the book it would be worth it. The original film only covers half of the book. The second half has Bastion in Fantasia going on a crazy power trip and starting a war.
N3rd Degree they kinda cover that in the sequals but they're both shit movies.
Great movie. Had some really dark undertones, but not sure it needs a remake (I would say the same about The Dark Crystal too)
Remakes of *LOGAN'S RUN (1976) & FLASH GORDON (1980)* from a Director with a powerful vision and intense passion, would be Fantastic !!
I really like the original films, tho they can certainly be improved upon...
I agree with you with the exception of Starship Troopers.
A film that is more faithfull to the books would be faaaar more interesting to wacht than the original, a quite flaw film.
If the politics of the book is what bugs you, a film that is objective about the setting and lets the audience decided would perfectly work.
You can even do a good satire while being faithfull to the books.
Putting that aside, I would prefere a miniseries over a film.
nachoolo Interesting.
A miniseries would be perfect. The thing that made the book interesting was the universe and seeing the philosophy behind it. It doesn't really work as a single overarching story but rather just observing the change of a humble fellow from the Phillipines to a galaxy trotting badass space marine while showing the value of the human spirit regardless of creed or skin color.
It's my favorite book for a reason.
Skyler Tesar It definitely deserves the mini-series treatment. I love the movie but other than the title and a few plot points there's nothing in common.
Chaplain Tappman I'd love for them to do an episode about the 1/500 bullet training thing. Like it's the perfect subplot or flashback thing for an episode. They have sharpshooters firing on them an one in five hundred shots is a live round while the rest are blanks. And the only person that dies in the training was due to him rolling too aggressively. It's the perfect melancholy way to end a small story. You probably already knew that but it's my favorite part of the book and I love talking about it.
"quite flaw film"
HAHAHA, wrong.
I love your videos, as I mentioned last weekend, and I realize that it's because your thoughts are so articulate and on-point. Couple that with well-placed clips of movies I genuinely love, played at exactly the right times to accentuate your thoughts, and it's a perfect combination of education and entertainment regarding my favorite subject -- film. You have a true fan, now. :)
Question: When should you remake a film?
Disney: Yes.
Flight of the Navigator please. Whimsical hijinks with a boy and an alien artificial intelligence!
Pretty sure that is being remade/rebooted.
There has indeed been talk of it... I have to admit, I would love to see a remake of that... I just hope they don't screw with teh story too much as it was simple and perfect as it was... Its only issue is it is dated!!!
I've heard tell of that being in the works, but I don't trust a single person involved.
Ian G oh yes
Squishy Productions was about to comment that the film is fine as it is but you make a good point!
evil dead was lowkey one of the better reboots of recent years
some people just really liked Bruce Campbell so much that they didn't like the remake. But the gore in the remake.... THE GORE is soooooo satisfying.
I had a feeling it would be. But the idea of Evil Dead being taken seriously was a cool idea to me.
I would love to remake really old, experimental silent films from the earliest days of cinema. 1890-1920, those years. Bizarre, dream-like stories with insane, mind-bending visuals for the time would be fantastic to see again with today's technology.
For once I'd like a mediocre film to get a remake, or at least something with potential that just fell on its face initially.
I really want to remake From Beyond, to me it was the creepiest Lovecraft story I've read but the low budget film based off it is terrible. There is also a lot of potential with its concept about a machine that blends our universe with another that's filled with monsters.
I'd remake the Sledge Hammer tv show into an R rated comedy. Seriously.
Trust me! I know what I am doing.
Telly Vin-a Thats a great question actually. I dont know, Bradley Cooper? Alexander Skaarsgard? Perhaps someone edgier?
G-Bomb FUCK YES.
They should make The Crow a short series, like on Netflix or something. The chapter/issue format would suit it well and it'd be just different enough from the movie that it wouldn't feel like a re-hash.
I'd love to see a take on The Thing that focuses more on the psychological horror over the body horror.
There's an idea that I think is very important to the premise, but that the films never really explore: that you could already have been taken over by the Thing and _not know it_. That the creature can manipulate your memory and perception, and your whole mind and consciousness is just a simulacrum that could be erased any moment if the creature decides to take over. The blood test scene would be less "find the traitor" and more like some horrible AIDS test, where you learn that you're already dead, you just don't know it yet.
Basically the human experience of mortality and fragility turned up to 11, plus an examination of the meaning of consciousness and identity.
One thing that I think would be interesting would be _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_, but without kiddifying it all and making it über-family-friendly, and instead going for the tone of the original comics (which were apparently more violent than televised and film versions of the franchise). The 1990 film had elements of the right stuff (including support from the brilliant - and sadly now defunct - Golden Harvest studio) but by the studio pandering to the parents that complained that it was too dark and violent for their children when it came to making the sequels it just feels like a missed opportunity.
I'd have a go at falling down if I was a director.
Brilliant concept and I'd like to try to modernise it while still keeping the topic universal so it doesn't get dated.
I love the remake of The Mummy (1999) but think the original from 1932 is good. I can't decided if I like the original or 2005 remake of King Kong more. I would like to see Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver re-adapted because the film versions did not get the stories or the tone right.
Also, as much as I LOVE NIGHTBREED! That's a film I've always dreamed of remaking! Calibrating some of its convoluted story, minimizing some of the film's blockbuster approach, leaning closer to the tone of the novel, maintaining the use of practical effects and developing it into the franchise it deserved to be. And I'd fight to give it an hard R rating.
The only movies that should be remade are those that had a great or ambitious concept, but we're executed poorly or could have been done better with a bigger budget.
Personally I want to see a remake of Event Horizon.
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even horizon remake would be amazing, with a lil more gore and madness :D
not a remake, only a sequel, at the end they escape in the life Pod. Even Horizon II. Another distress signal is sent to a nearby space crew, The pod landed on another ship that is sending the distress signal. easy Sequel. This time there is no reactor the first ship brought back a demon energy from beyond space and time.
"The Incredible Shrinking Man"... ...The Death Star is just the size of a dust particle.
Ive been saying it for years, but here i go again.
Crossover of The Incredible shrinking man/The Fly!
-At the end of ISM when he slides thru the screen, he finds the "white head fly" and rescues him from that nasty spider. They become friends as the ISM rides around on They Fly (lol) and eventual shrinks away into oblivion. only after the ICM finds a way to show that he and the fly guy are still alive. By spelling it out with cheerios or whatever.
...something like that
Yeh, although instead of using Cheerios they should have a barcode pattern that appears in shadow on the floor combined with a watch that ticks with morse code that a young girl picks up (because that's the only way anyone can understand what Matthew McConaughey is saying...) on a dying planet while her father jouneys through a wormhole that opens near Saturn to where the ISM has journey through the quantum foam because he's Freddy Kreuger....
i preffered Infernal Affairs over The Departed...
Daniel Moreno absolutely, the infernal affair was about the struggles and suffering of working undercover, the things you have to do to maintain identity and be burdened about. the departed lacks this part entirely, making it a cat and mouse comedy that gives you little sense of respect for any character.
Radio Isotope The Departed did not "lack that entirely". It was a huge central theme. You should clearly rewatch it.
I also preferred Infernal Affairs, but that's not saying The Departed was a bad movie. And it did give us the character of Dignam, who wasn't in the original.
I thought the Departed was a really dumbed down version, compared to Infernal Affairs they stripped the characters of any depth, instead of grey we got one dimensional black and white
I'd say remake Stalker. The original is a classic, but it's certainly not for everyone, but the idea is so appealing that its a shame we don't have a more approachable version. As much as I like Stalker, it really heavy. I think that somebody like Inarritu + Lubezki would make a hell of a job making it a modern sci-fi masterpiece.
Recently I've heard there is TV series adaptation actually in the works. But it will be based on the book.
B1SCOOP I'll take a tv series. It could work. "Stories from the Zone" :D. I did read the book as a teenager and I loved it.
Same could be said about Solaris (also filmed by Tarkovski) - and I choose to ignore the George Clooney movie... uh. Tarkovski's visions are amazing and very philosophic but I'd like to see more appealing versions.
Martin Zyka Iñarritu already his Tarkovsky for modern audiences. May try Antonioni next.
Speaking of Stalker... Can we get stalker 2 (the game, not the movie)? I'll even take a remastering of SoC, CS, or CoP... well maybe not CS
I think a movie more in the vein of the Starship Troopers novels would be cool. The movie itself is a different beast, I think there's room for it.
That's the problem though isn't it. Even if the director (or whoever) wants to tell a different story based on the source material eventually the studio says make it more like the original movie.
The movie had fuck all to do with the book. Everyone who read the book was outraged by the movie. But, two totally different audiences.
Aiden Crawford lol the book is right wing crap. it doesn't need a faithful adaptation
Which part of the book did you think was right-wing crap when you read it?
minglis88 Heinlein has written both right leaning and left leaning books. To dismiss him as a right wing loon is unfair.
As much as I loved Mars Attacks, I would love to see a remake/sequel more true to the trading cards with lots of over the top gore. It would also be cool to repeat what the original did, to get all the big movie stars of the time and kill them all off for the pure schadenfreude. Imagine that with today's big actors.
it's not TECHNICALLY a remake but the new "the man from uncle" was simply amazing.
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John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness. Also Event Horizon. Those three movies have great ideas that were executed poorly.
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Not at all. The ideas behind these three are to show a terror that's beyond human comprehension, and although I haven't seen Prince of Darkness, the other two don't need to be remade because they weren't executed poorly besides a handful of scenes from event horizon.
Event Horizon had to rush its entire third act because they ran out of money. That sounds like a perfect candidate for a remake to me.
Seamus McFlanery In the Mouth of Madness is highly beloved. Sod off.
Event Horizon is actually way worse than you remember.
I wouldn't want them remade so much as re-released!
I've always wanted to remake the early 80s slasher movie FADE TO BLACK. A narrative with great ideas, great scenes and an awesome lead performance. It's just some of its subplots, pacing and visual direction left me with a lot to be desired. I'd honestly take it into a different genre, instead of it being about a vengeful sexually repressed movie nerd, mine would be a romantic comedy about a woman working in a video store in the 90s. She'd be obsessed with movies, hoping that her next love interest would fall into the sentimental movie cliches she loves, her expectations would be done in classic film styles and contrast from her reality... I suppose it'd be less of a remake and more of a movie done in a similar genre, like I Wanna Hold Your Hand vs Detroit Rock City.
The Conan remake should contemplate its mistakes on the Tree of Woe
Well, you already said they were remaking Highlander, so I don't need to guess what I'd remake.
I would remake the Star Wars prequels.
me too. but with a good plot this time.
LOL! While I do agree... I must be fair to Lucas, I sort of get what he was aiming for... Where do all wars start?
Not on a Battle field but by Men in High Places with Agendas... So his heart was in the right place - but thats BORING AS SHIT!!! He pout way too much focus on the politics... While essential to understand, it did not need to be the majority of the damn films!!!!
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The Phantom Edit. i think its still on youtube.... maybe.
+Warren Marris whether an idea is good or bad doesn't matter. The execution does. The execution is more important than the idea. George Lucas gave the prequels interesting ideas with really poor execution.
DafuqImmaDoing absolutely... I feel live gets a little too much hate though. Honestly, even with the original trilogy, I think he was a man who needed his ambition reigned in... Hence Gary Kurtz ...
Wow, I don't think I've watched one of your videos without hitting like yet. Awesome stuff. Keep it coming!
Sean Connery's Outland (1981) but that was basically a version of High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper. On a mining moon, Io, the Sheriff has to alone fight off the company (think Weyland-Yutani) bad guys; who are peddling a crazy addictive Nazi-crack type substance that turns the workers into psychos. It has elements of film noir, westerns and sci-fi and is one of the few sci-fis that doesn't have aliens for the villains.
I think a darker more grown up remake of Labyrinth would be good. The story of an immature spoiled child who hides in a fantasy world from the pervasive threat of growing up is forced to deal with a threatening but appealing older man who awakens not only her sexuality but a sense of responsibility and purpose that comes with adulthood, while also accepting her new family, step mom and step brother. I think the original Labyrinth hinted strongly at a number of psychological issues that young women entering adulthood might encounter, but kept it fairly light since it was for children. I'd like to see a version smart and meta enough for an older nostalgic crowd that is also suitable for a teen crowd, like a PG-13 version. NOT Tim Burton! No muppets, no songs. Sort of like what A Company of Wolves did for Red Riding Hood. Ok, maybe some muppets.
I'd say The Last Star Fighter. It's still a fun film to watch, but the CG scenes are soooooooo dated.
I would almost prefer if they took the original movie, left in the live action parts and simply redo the CGI. The same with TRON and Lawnmower Man.
+Hikikomicklori They'd have to acquire the rights to that material and make it straight-to-DVD if that were so.
genuine effort and passion will always triumph
I would remake this episode and make it much better by adding a tag with the title of the films that you show.
When I’m a successful writer director I want to remake “Robin and the 7 Hoods” - hear me out. The movie has very strong and funny scenes, as well as some fantastic songs: Mr B-O-O-Z-E, My Kind of Town and Style - but in other places it drags and the jokes don’t always hit very well, and that really breaks my heart because I remember seeing it once as a kid and loving it.
The Rat Pack is the Rat Pack, you would never in a million years be able to recreate them, so the cast of the remake would still have their chemistry but just in different ways, with some crooners but also maybe some more modern R&B artists to spice it up a bit - the songs would still be solid crooning though, maybe a bit more “La La Land”-esque however to modernise.
Some details I’d change:
- Keep the songs above but scratch the others (I love Bang Bang but it just isn’t as strong as the rest), and compose new ones.
- ensure the jokes are snappy and land much better
- aim the movie at a PG or 12 rating, I thought the corpses inside concrete blocks was a bit morbid for a cheery musical - although was pretty badass at the end, if a bit last minute
- make it clearer who the 7 hoods are, give them more dimension, and give the femme fatale much more sinister screen time
- basically keep the Mr Booze scene the same because it’s awesome but make the editing a little snappier and the dancing more grand
I mean I’m just hurling shit at a wall here to see what sticks but this was fun to think about.
Logan's Run is a great premise but really cheesy in its execution. I also feel its theme of "oppression via luxury" is pretty relevant in the 21st century.
Wasn't Winding Refn gonna do this a few years ago with Ryan Gosling? Not sure what happened to that
Surrogates (2008). The concept (taken from a French graphic novel) was clever, almost like something out of Black Mirror, but it was framed like a dumb, loud action movie.
Get a filmmaker like Alex Garland or Charlie Brooker to mine the idea of people living out their everyday lives through robotic surrogates, while their actual bodies are hooked up to a computer inside their house, crank up the dark satire and borderline psychological horror, and you'd have something good there.
Warlords of Atlantis?
That or "At earth's core".
Keyser Soze That sir, is a good call.
First off, you've earned a new subscriber.
Second, I would remake The Crow. Or I suppose, I'd rather reboot it. The comics had a big impact on my artstyle growing up and the subject matter shaped me as a person. I'd love to just create a huge storyboard and pitch it sometime. I think the primary draw of The Crow was the story of vengeance and setting oneself at peace. The visuals would of course be all practical, but at the very least, if not that, they'd be primarily practical.
Even to fit the modern era, a movie like The Crow could be done without reference to the times. No cellphones and the like constantly shown. Perhaps the setting could be that of a run down city neighborhood like the original to inhibit the use of a lot of modern technology, rather focusing on the way the characters deal with their situation in this environment of broken down and wasteful debilitation.
It's a story that is undeniably timeless and has spawned a few sequels, of which were in poor taste due to dwindling budget and teams that didn't care to create a new character. Why not have an abusive boyfriend or girlfriend who loses the one they love, then find out that they made a huge mistake and ended their own lives, only to return? Yeah, it's basically the same story, but it creates a NEW character, not just one with a new name in a new setting.
Starship Troopers could certainly use a remake (instead of it's obvious hatred of the source material) to tell a compelling story of an 18 year old from a wealthy family wanting to make his first real decision:
1) He enlists in the military of the world government
2) He is challenged by the training like he has never been before
3) He reflects upon his place in society as a member of the military and a citizen
4) He overcomes his fear of failure and death to become a part of a team
5) He realizes he is doing something important and necessary
6) He feels called to become an officer
7) He grows as a leader putting the mission and his men above his personal motivations
8) He comes to the conclusion some things are worth fighting for
9) As a Filipino he is proud of his heritage (as well of all the other troopers of theirs).
Yeah, all fascist stuff... the ones that claim Robert Hienlein's book is fascistic are only those upset that he mocked Leftist thinking by saying their ideas were unscientific claptrap from the book's perspective in the far future.
Read it for your selves and decide which story you would rather see (Heinlein's, with a unique future society you have NEVER seen portrayed in cinema or Verhoeven's satire that has nothing in common with the book, except the name).
I think Firefox with Clint could be re-done. But only the Firefox jet scenes themselves with today's tech
Well I think some of the cheesy 1970s disaster films should get remade without bad CGI and with truly interesting characters. They tried with The Poseidon Adventure. I think the one (perhaps the cheesiest) to be remade should be Earthquake (1974). Just keep the darn CGI down to a minimum (CGI enhanced scale model work perhaps) and don't make half the planet split open.
San Andreas is about as close to a remake of Earthquake as we'll ever need.
Yeah, afraid so.....
At least the special effects are nice to look at (the destruction sequences, not that car in the beginning).
second video after Lovecraft one. I gotta say I quite enjoy this and I believe I have found a gem on TH-cam! you are inspiring, keep it up!
Are you ever going to do for The Raid?
One day
Sweet, I'm a recent subscriber and I would love to hear what you have to say about the Raid. It's definitely up there as one of my favorite action films.
As a fan of the Starship Troopers book, I really cannot agree with you calling the book "right-wing racism" because I remember a specific part of the saying that signing up with the military was OPTIONAL, keyword: OPTIONAL and I know that an optional military service are almost never a thing for fascist countries.
In fact, Heinlein was someone who was very vocal towards both right-wing and left-wing politics.
I think they should remake Ghostbuster (2016) because it was utter shite!
Ok serious one now actually, I think they should re-make "Where Eagles Dare" Eastwood could have a minor cameo role as an ageing Nazi or something like that
Kyle Manicat There was already a sequel to Ghostbusters 2. It was the actually good videogame that's set after two films and had a great story.
They should pull a Patrick Duffy from Dallas and have Ghostbusters 2016 be a horrible dream sequence.
Ghostbusters (2016) was a studio-mandated thing that was going to happen SOMEDAY. My hat's off to them for taking a bullet with what was never going to be a particularly popular idea without the original cast in their same roles.
They could have made a great sequel. The New Adventures of Ghostbusters. Have the same cast except Aisha Tyler instead of Leslie Jones. Make Aisha a scientist and Mary Mccarthy the every person like Winston. Have Kate McKinnon be the daughter of Egon and Ghost are coming back into the world. She has to see her uncle Ray for answers and starts up the business again. Make it a passing the torch movie.
Hey Rossatron, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts about adaptations, too. What does or doesn't make a book-to-film adaptation great, what makes a book likely to be adapted in the first place, and what adaptations, if any, you'd like to see.
I'd make a good remake of the "The Thing" 2011 version, the prequel to john carpenters version, without jumpscares, CGI and hectic action, i'd make it somewhat similar to the john carpenters version.
Or the god awful resident evil movies.
Mazaroth Please Capcom! PLEASE reboot the Resident Evil movies!! The current ones gave me cancer!
Mazaroth They actually had really good practical effects on the set of the remake but decided to "enhance" them with CGI. That is what really bothers me.
I've just found your channel and watched 10 or so vids... I agree with virtually everything you've said so far, good man!
Dune would be best handled as a TV series or mini-series. Just look at the sheer amount of material there is to cover.
Been done: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert%27s_Dune
The novel Starship Troopers was not fascistic or right wing. It presented a society where only veterans could vote. I wish the film had presented the ideas unbiased and let the viewer judge the merits of the society. I hope the new film would do this but I think the will focus on power suits since power suits are cool.
Thanks for your essay. You made some great points.
American Ninja. I would do American Ninja.
'The League of Extraordinary Gentleman' deserves another crack at the big screen
Hey Rossatron.
Did you get to see the movie Elite Squad, from the director of Robocop's remake? José Padilha?
It's quite different to see working on an action movie without the studio interfering so much.
Elite squad is a film that resembles much more the original Robocop than the remake, is action movie that explores social problems and criticizes society, and thats why i was hoping for a good remake...
And Elite Squad is first time that the Padilha worked with the Wagner Moura (Escobar in Narcos).
I'm a big fan of both Elite Squad films. It's one of the main reasons I was upset to see Padilha so messed around by Hollywood, since the guy is clearly a real talent.
Since I'm Brazilian I'm suspicious when I say the movies are good.
I've watched Sicario twice this year, I'm going to re-watch Elite Squad to see how good the movie works out compared to it.
Anyway, I'm writing some of my stuff and although the media is not cinema, your videos end up giving a good insight into how to write action scenes.
So, thanks for the good work!
Omg, The Valley of Gwangi! I saw that movie about ten years ago, namely because I was trying to watch some Ray Harryhausen stop motion flicks. It'd be perfect for a remake with today's special effects.
I would love a remake of Fahrenheit 451. The original is iffy at best but the message of censorship is so needed in today's toxic political scene.
2:59 The Hills Have Eyes [2006] is really an underappreciated remake, great to see it here!
It's interesting, because I agree with pretty much everything you say here, but I disagree with you on specifics. I love that you used the phrase 'respecting the original', because I hated Starship Troopers - not that it was a bad movie, but that the only thing it owed to the novel was the name. No one would be remaking the Starship Trooper movie - they'd simply be making the movie of Starship Troopers and having respect for the source material. On the other hand, while Highlander might not have been a great movie, it was original in almost every since of the word. I discovered that movie by accident (theater hopping on my day off when I was 20 years old), and I was amazed by the things it did. I would like to see someone else with more skill and a bigger budget approach the same ideas, but there's no need to redo Highlander, because nothing they do can ever have the impact of the original.
Remakes, reboots, or whatever ya wanna call 'em they're just too damn tricky in my book.
Great video, keep it up.
Dune remake? Yes please!
That's what I meant.
I want Jodorowsky's version. I know it has nothing to do with the source material, but Jodorowsky makes fucking dazzling films.
from the guy who Made arrival and the bladerunner sequel. ... why the fuck isnt he working on a alien sequel? ._.
Not a movie but the TV series Werewolf from the 80's. Janos Skorzeny was such a cool and terrifying villain. The plot could be greatly improved too since it was very simple to begin with (it essentially followed the Hulk's format of the hero running away from something, going from town to town, helping people)
Certain films should never be remade.... Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, The Wickerman, Rocky to name a few.
Enter The Dragon is going to be remade:
www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2157213/enter-dragon-remake-bruce-lee-must-be-spinning-his-grave-leave-kung
The Exorcist has been rebooted into a TV show:
www.bing.com/search?q=exorcist+remake&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=d99095a7507545fbb65c24de1bd66bce&cc=AU&setlang=en-US
Wickerman has been remade:
www.bing.com/search?q=The+Wicker+Man&filters=ufn%3a%22The+Wicker+Man%22+sid%3a%22ee52b60f-f296-1c4d-ba2a-56427e9b6816%22&FORM=SNAPST
Rocky has also been remade:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Balboa_(film)
Back to the Future is #1 on my list of never to remake
Some of the 80's action movies are full of great ideas, but pretty mediocre in their execution. I'd love to see a solid remake of The Last Starfighter and The Wraith. With a passionate director, they could go from good to amazing.
I would remake the Hellraiser.
Why? Unless Barker actually wants to do it to improve on it. Seeing as he did the original novel and film.
I know but the Hellraiser remake is in a development hell so long, even Barker was asked to write the script for it with a "threat" - If you wouldnt do it, someone else will do it worse than you. I really love to see the new adaptation of that story after so many bad sequels.
I guess it probably will be then. Like Halloween was. Then Friday the 13th. Then Nightmare On Elm Street. Oh well. Yes the sequels are mostly terrible. After 3 it got real bad. I think 4 was the last theatrical release for the series and it bombed bad. Was pulled in like 2 weeks where I live at least.
i would personally use old Analog filming equipment to give it the original 80's grit then transfer it to digital. Doug Bradley is 62 years old but i would not use any other actor as Pinhead. I really have invested much time in thinking of how I would start the story with a "collector" and a china man selling "the box"
And then at the very end you brought up valley of gwangi and my jaw dropped and this was the first time ive pushed that bell icon ever
A movie that should definitely be remade is Citizen Kane, but with black people.
Tyler Perry, make this happen.
Or a Chinese version of Air Force One would be interesting if remade.
Eric I want that Air Force One remake ASAP lmao
No, no! They need to do it with an australian native lesbian-transgender-woman (a man operated to a woman who loves women) who is in a wheelchair, and is a neo-feminist activist who uses the influence to make all men operated to women.
That's the only way.
Why do a remake when you can do a George Lucas esque re-edited 'Special Edition' that adds in CGI, color, and a lot of other pointless additions. And then make it very hard to get the original version.
Far cheaper and more profitable.
A Bridge Too Far. It's one of my favourite war films but I'd be really interested to see an updated version.
The best remake ever is John Carpenter's The Thing
Sooo good.
Any single movie can and probably should be remade or retold. That is how storytelling developed. The same stories being retold over and over by multiple storytellers, some good, some bad, all blended over time to create the everlasting stories we know and love.
I largely agree, but I entirely disagree on Starship Troopers. I loathe Verhoevan's version; I feel he missed pretty much everything that made the book great - the ideas, not the power armour. He wanted to crap on Heinlein's ideas, and only made his own the weaker in doing it.
As much as I like some aspects of Starship Troopers, his politics got in the way of the movie. Veerhoeven read about two chapters and put the book down, because "muh fascists." He then decided to satirize it, except, since he hadn't read the book, he was actually satirizing a shallow charicature of what he imagined the book to be. This made the satire of the film very one-note, shallow, and obvious. In other words, it sucked.
A shame, because the film had a lot of good elements.
The Gate was one of my favorite movies when I was little and I'd be curious to see how a remake would fair
Fascism and Nationalism aren't the same thing, just like Socialism and Communism are not the same thing and I completely disagree with your assessment of Starship Troopers. I think a faithful, patriotic telling of the source material would be interesting. Im going to guess, though, you think it's a bad idea because it will embolden Brexiters. This is like saying Wagner is a bad composer because Hitler liked his music. In other words, it's bullshit.
There is no such thing as true communism.Humans make that impossible. Will always some people who feel they are more entitled than others.
I can think of 2 challenges to this. One is the idea that movies that are certified perfect do not NEED to be remade. I always question that because I find the habit that many people have of saying that a movie "needs" or does not "need" to be made weird. Movies are entertainment. They don't need purpose. We make 'em because they're fun to make and fun to watch. Looking for purpose in a film is a business mindset, not a critical one.
The other is the idea that remakes need to respect the source material. That excludes the potential of subversion and deconstruction that the remake can be used for. You brought up Starship Troopers and how it subverted the politics of the original novel by playing it as satire. If we applied your rule about remakes to book adaptations, Starship Troopers wouldn't exist.
Other than that, I think this was a really well thought video.
I'd do Friday The 13th and try to actually make it good for once
Personally I'd like to see the Jurassic Park book being adapted into a mini series, I love the movie with a passion that I feel only the people who made it can have. But I'd like to see a book adaptation, more fateful then the movie. If that doesn't happen, I'm completely fine with it, personally I'd like to see it, I highly doubt there's an audience for seeing it being remade, and I can understand it. Honestly, I agree with the points you made in the video.
I don't get the love for Oldboy. It's just a weird fucked up film.
cafeterialoca Maybe you didn't understood the beauty of it.
cafeterialoca
prose. count the number of things introduced, and how many times theyre shown or mentioned tastefully.
starter set:
#1 the scissors
#2 reflections
Maybe ghostbusters 2016 is more your film
All I saw was a movie acting like incest was a trendy topic. It hasn't aged well.
Its not about the action. And the incest is the best plottwist ever
Its two ways you can develope Highlander as a concept, either you go for a straight drama of a man who lived for centuries, focusing on the issues of a individual who constantly loosing those he loves and care for. Otherwise you go for a straight action epic with sword fights settled in feudal japan (or something similar) throw in some quasi inspirations of a gladiator game concepts, ( might work regarding the concept of fighting other immortals for "the prize"). They need to develope the the motivations why immortals have to fight otherwise the concept will not work.
No film should be remained... ever. Because 9 out of 10 times it's terrible and unnecessary. What we really need is new ideas.
So I'm guessing that you completely ignored this video and all of the examples of great remakes.
True Grit? The Fly? The Thing? The Ring? - Shit, even Charlton Heston's Ben Hur was a "remake"... It's honestly okay... For the right reasons, - but shit, if this 7 minute essay can't get to you, then I won't.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? No; not the right reasons....
So "The Thing from another World" should have never been remade by John Carpenter? Or "The Blob"-Remake from the 80s? Those were bad Movies? I didn't know.
And call me a Heretic - I liked the "Evil Dead"-Remake as a more serious, yet still cheesy, take on the original Movies.
"We should have less options for movies to watch" is what I hear.
Those movies that have really, really good remakes needed remakes because just having a new idea wasn't good enough the first time they tried.
Also, 9 out of 10 movies are terrible and unnecessary anyway. Original or otherwise.
movies that could be remade:
The Keep
High Spirits
Nothing But Trouble
Any Ed Wood movie
Silent Running
Logan's Run
Howard the Duck
Necronomicon
I could probably go on. I think good criteria would be.
1. Don't remake any film that was universally loved. This is why you don't see direct remakes of wizard of Oz.
2. Does it have a message that's still relevant. See Silent Running.
3. Can you improve it as a movie, not just attempt to give it broad appeal/ marketability.
4. Can you present it in a new or unique way.
I would be interested to see how they go about with the power armor in the possible new adaptation of starship troopers.
Would really love to see a Highlander remake with passion and creativity behind it. It's such an interesting concept that leaves so much to explore. Imagine how much a person who's lived for hundreds of years has seen and experienced. The original filmseries really screwed everything up with the crappy sequels, so it could really do with a remake/reboot to add a breath of fresh air. And here's hoping that they cast an actual scottsman to play the lead and not a frenchman (who could berley spek english at the time).