ROBOCOP
ROBOTECH
TRON2
SPIDERMAN 4&5
BUCK ROGERS
MONOPOLY (based on the boardgame)
TEKKEN
THE HOBBIT
HIGHLANDER
JURASSIC PARK 4
LOGAN'S RUN
VOLTRON
I AM LEGEND:PREQUEL
THE THING
DUNE
THOR
CONAN
HE-MAN
FRAGGLE ROCK(live action/puppet)
GOD OF WAR
POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL
RESIDENT EVIL 4
PIRATES OF THE CARIBEAN 4
Jeepers Creepers 3
Love Howard's Conan novels but not a fan of the Conan movies, still I'll probably have to check it out. Any word on who the villians will be for the Spider-man movies?
I'm hoping it's The Lizard!
Ugh, another Will Smith - I Am Legend movie?
Just as I was recovering from the ocular cancer that was the first one.
Too many re-makes.
I try not to take a hard-line against remakes until I've actually seen them. I can think of maybe 6 horror/sci-fi remake that I consider valid on their own merit. That's not saying much considering what's out there.
I hope the "The Thing" remake is more of a sequel in the same way that John Carpenters was.
Robocop, Highlander and Dune have had more than their fair share of exposure on the big and small screens IMO.
Re Spiderman 4 villians: Sounds like Carnage and the Lizard will be making appearances. I also wouldn't rule out a return of the original Green Goblin . . . baddies never stay dead.
The Thing...again? Please create something new!
I would be interested in I Am Legend prequel. I enjoyed the Will Smith movie as well as Vincent Price in The Last Man On Earth. Its a great story.
Baron, you and I are at polar opposites on this topic . . . which is great.
I think "The Thing" by it's very nature could provide some very interesting story developments be they prequel or sequel, while seems quite I Am Legend is played out.
What I've heard is The Thing is not a remake or a sequel but a prequel that will be the story of what happened when the Norwegians find the saucer. The movie will end wherre Carpenter's begins. I'm still waiting for a sequel that will put the thing in a city... and we know how that's going to go.
Quote from: FACTO2 on June 13, 2009, 07:53:00 PM
What I've heard is The Thing is not a remake or a sequel but a prequel that will be the story of what happened when the Norwegians find the saucer.
That does sound interesting. I would want to see that.
Quote from: Gillman-Fan on June 13, 2009, 07:28:33 PM
Baron, you and I are at polar opposites on this topic . . . which is great.
I think "The Thing" by it's very nature could provide some very interesting story developments be they prequel or sequel, while seems quite I Am Legend is played out.
If the prequel is the Norwegian story, I'll admit that is an interesting story that I would want to see. I was thinking another remake would be just that: another mediocore remake with CGI bursting at the seams. There are some remakes I do like: Carpenter's The Thing, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead among others, but most I could do without.
I Am Legend is from a great story. I don't remember The Omega Man very well, but I know the other 2 movie adaptations. Will Smith did an incredible in that movie IMO, that kept me glued to the screen. Yes, there were some Hollywood moments and I wish the zombies were different, but it was an excellent update to The Last Man on Earth, which also is one of my Vincent Price favorites.
I'm not sure what proper follow up story could come from a prequel, but I am a Will Smith fan so I would be interested.
its going to be tuff to top the last thing............
I don't think of prequels or sequels as remakes at all. When the moron from the TV show "Wings" decided to remake The Shining basically shot for shot, THAT was a remake (and a particularly awful one). When the "new" Psycho came out, same thing. The "new" Salem's Lot. etc etc. All wastes of time.
Prequels and sequels are not remakes. They're a continuation of a previous storyline. Who would call the latest Star Wars a remake of the original??
Quote from: Scatter on June 14, 2009, 01:11:54 PM
I don't think of prequels or sequels as remakes at all. When the moron from the TV show "Wings" decided to remake The Shining basically shot for shot, THAT was a remake (and a particularly awful one). When the "new" Psycho came out, same thing. The "new" Salem's Lot. etc etc. All wastes of time.
Prequels and sequels are not remakes. They're a continuation of a previous storyline. Who would call the latest Star Wars a remake of the original??
Who is this directed to?
I dread the new Conan film.At first it was going to be directed by Brett Ratner, which would be a disaster. They keep changing directors, now its the guy who did Pathfinder which was a total piece of s##t. I was hoping that Milius would direct or at least write it. (His writing on Rome made it the good show it was) Or get someone like McTiernan or Favreau behind it. I hear Ridley Scott is being approached about a reboot of Alien. Now that makes sense. But who would play Ripley? I vote for Amy Adams. She was pretty fiesty in the Night at the museum sequel.
Guillermo Del Toro is the only person I'd trust a new Conan feature to. Terry Gilliam also has an excellent sense of the richness that this franchise needs and he knows his way around historically ambiguous period pieces.
I'd agree with Del Toro. But Gilliams' incoherent storylines and pseudo avant-garde style wouldnt suit a Conan flick. Knowing Hollywood they will likely wind up with Michael Bay.
Yeah, Gilliam would probably be too "thinky" for a Conan epic. You either like him or you don't . . . the fact that Hollywood can't pigeon-hole him makes him OK in my book.
I loved "Pathfinder", thought it was a good movie
You were in the minority Doc
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on June 14, 2009, 11:20:06 PM
Who is this directed to?
I'm too lazy to look back. And so are you. LOL!!
Hollywood is so dried up an useless, I believe they will try to remake almost every movie before doing something original. I mean, how many novels are out there that can be turned into books. Look at the work of R.A. Salvatore. His books would make great movies and sequels.
Quote from: BigShadow on February 07, 2014, 03:37:46 AM
Hollywood is so dried up an useless, I believe they will try to remake almost every movie before doing something original. I mean, how many novels are out there that can be turned into books. Look at the work of R.A. Salvatore. His books would make great movies and sequels.
::)Agreed.
I think one of my biggest pet peeves regarding remakes, is once it's been remade, they never broadcast the original anymore.
Case in point:Dawn of the Dead (1978),one of the greatest movies of all time IMHO never gets shown.Instead we get the shoddy remake playing all the time,for the sole reason that it's newer. :'(
I can think of many more examples,a few notable ones:
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
King Kong
Godzilla
Halloween
Hills have Eyes
The Fog
Planet of the Apes
These are soon to be joined by:
Carrie
Poltergeist
:-X :-X :-X
Quote from: Scatter on June 14, 2009, 01:11:54 PM
I don't think of prequels or sequels as remakes at all. When the moron from the TV show "Wings" decided to remake The Shining basically shot for shot, THAT was a remake (and a particularly awful one). When the "new" Psycho came out, same thing. The "new" Salem's Lot. etc etc. All wastes of time.
Prequels and sequels are not remakes. They're a continuation of a previous storyline. Who would call the latest Star Wars a remake of the original??
The "Moron" who decided to remake "The Shinning" was not Steven Weber from Wings. He only appeared in it, and I think did a decent job. The person behind the remake was Stephen King. Stephen King wrote a decent read called "The Shinning." Stanley Kubrick read the book, and made an even better movie out of it. Because there were some changes from the original book, King detested Kubrick's movie. The story was very personal to him, and I can get where he didn't like something that personal to him being changed. King finally got an opportunity to make his own version of the story, and I have no doubt he was excited that people could at last see a filmed version of the way the story should look, including the "menacing" dancing plantlife, and CGI hoses with fangs. In the end, all King managed to do, was show people that Kubrick could do a better job making a movie about a haunted hotel in Colorado, than King; and when it comes to dancing foliage Disney did a much better job with the mushrooms and other plants in "Fantasia". Fire-hoses with fangs? better leave that to the people who make the Asylum movies and SciFy.