Movies Hollywood respects too much to remake.

[Sinnycal]

Are there any you'd bet on?

For fun, you have to take a drink every time they announce a remake of a movie on your list.

[docgonzo]

Hollywood respects nothing.

End of thread.

[winter dreams]

They haven't remade Citizen Kane, have they?

Please no.

[Slappynipsy]

Triumph of the Will

[wcmartell]

None of them. If they can make money today, they'll remake it. There's always talk of remaking CASABLANCA (and they *have* made a TV series from it in the past).

It's a business. It's all about the money.

- Bill

[MacG]

Anything Spielberg has directed will probably forever be off-limits. Films he's produced, no so much, as POLTERGEIST is proving....

[doubler83]

Anything Spielberg has directed will probably forever be off-limits. Films he's produced, no so much, as POLTERGEIST is proving....

Even early Spielberg stuff like DUEL for example?

[MacG]

Even early Spielberg stuff like DUEL for example?

I would say even DUEL is off-limits, yes.

[Cycstorm]

There is nothing Hollyood respects enough not to remake it. There is stuff we respect enough not to want remade, but even in those cases there are ten times as many people out there who don't give a fig, who will gladly stump up $12 if the lead actress gets her kit off and its loud in all the right places.

[instant_karma]

I don't think there's anything that's off limits.

I keep waiting for the announcement that Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen are to star in a remake of Some Like it Hot.

[wcmartell]

You should pitch that.

[Jim Mercurio]

They haven't remade Citizen Kane, have they?

Please no.

Eddie and the Cruisers. ;-)

[darthpaul]

I agree. Nothing is off limits. After officially announcing the proposed Alien remake/reboot/sequel/prequel/whatever it is this week, all bets are off. It's all about the $ and it's all about existing properties. That seems to mean adaptations and remakes... :eek:

[doubler83]

If you were hired to write the remake of Casablanca, are you really going to turn it down?

[MacG]

I think you're wrong about Spielberg. No studio wants to piss him off. A classic example is JAWS 3. Universal was planning to go campy and call it JAWS 3, PEOPLE 0. One call from Spielberg and it was history.

And that was merely a sequel to a sequel he had no part of.

If we're talking decades in the future, though, when Spielberg is no longer around, MAYBE we'd see a remake of a lesser work. But I have to think attorneys for his estate would try to squash it.

And of course you'll never EVER see a remake of any Lucasfilm project.

[lucidimage]

There are certain things that are off limits, but the few that are will be because of the ownership. Anything privately owned is pretty safe (i.e. no one is ever going to remake Star Wars unless Georgie wants to do it again himself, he is like the J.D. Salinger of movies, except he isn't quite as reclusive) but anything owned by a studio is open game. Unfortunately, most classics are IP's owned by the studio soooo...

[Knaight]

I don't think there's anything that's off limits.

I keep waiting for the announcement that Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen are to star in a remake of Some Like it Hot.

Would see that remake.

[Naudikom]

Yeah, I think Star Wars is probably safe. The Wizard of Oz.

[sherbetbizarre]

The Exorcist.

For now...

[tucsonray]

Pink Flamingos... but wouldn't it be great if someone did.

[wcmartell]

The Wizard of Oz.

Remade in 1978.

- Bill

[Ralphy W]

The Exorcist.

For now...

Back around 2000, Blatty was planning to film his original 200+ page script as a mini-series... until Friedkin talked him out of it, and they decided to release "The Version You've Never Seen" instead.

[Signal30]

The Exorcist.

For now...
Say, this (http://www.cinemaspy.com/article.php?id=2547) is timely...

Seriously, trying to remake The Exorcist in this day and age? I suppose if they went with the PG-13...

On the other hand, I think no one in Hollywood would be foolish enough to remake Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[Mark Twain Weck]

Even early Spielberg stuff like DUEL for example?

I'd like to see DUEL from the Trucker's POV.

[instant_karma]

You should pitch that.

I would, but I can't decide between Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba for Sugar...

[Pasquali56]

Gone With the Wind and a few other big period pieces -- but only because studios would think there's no market for them today. Otherwise, they'd do it.

[Fortean]

Triumph of the Will

I'd tend to agree; but, like THE OLYMPIAD (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030522/combined) and CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL DECISION (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263238/combined), this was a documentary. Does Hollywood really respect documentaries?

[Sinnycal]

Maybe respect was the wrong word. Anything shot before 1970 seems to be fair game regardless of how well respected. I guess I'm thinking more along the lines of movies released in that post-1970 period, particularly the 80's.

[TheKeenGuy]

None of them. If they can make money today, they'll remake it. There's always talk of remaking CASABLANCA (and they *have* made a TV series from it in the past).

It's a business. It's all about the money.

- Bill
True. The reason you haven't seen a remake of something is because they don't know how to make it profitable.

Of course, even CASABLANCA has been knocked-off many times since its release. HAVANA and BARB WIRE are two films from the 90s that borrowed heavily from that film's plot without bothering to give credit.

[wcmartell]

Does Hollywood really respect documentaries?

GRAY GARDENS! They just remade a doc!

Nothing is off limits if it can make money again.

My favorite uncredited CASABLANCA remake:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083926/
(really - I liked this film)

- Bill

[dodo1]

I'd say epic classics like APOCALYPSE NOW are relatively safe, and so are franchises owned by individual movie makers instead of studios (Spielberg & Lucas movies, for example).

SCHINDLER'S LIST is also unlikely to be remade for a long time to come.

[Slappynipsy]

I'd tend to agree; but, like THE OLYMPIAD (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030522/combined) and CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL DECISION (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263238/combined), this was a documentary. Does Hollywood really respect documentaries?

Respect, no probablly not, but I am 100% sure it will never be remade...





...Unless Clooney agrees to play Hitler.