Weekly Ketchup: Planet of the Apes gets another reboot
Plus remakes of They Live and Romancing the Stone
There wasn't much going on in Hollywood last week because of Thanksgiving, but this week, the studios came back with a vengeance, and what they set their sights upon are several remakes and a couple of sequels to successful blockbusters, as well as yet another project for Johnny Depp.
#1 20TH CENTURY FOX REBOOTING PLANET OF THE APES AGAIN WITH CAESAR
The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.
#2 HUGH JACKMAN IS THE BEST AT WHAT HE DOES, AND WHAT HE DOES MAKES LOTS OF MONEY
X-Men Origins: Wolverine might be six months from release, but while he promotes Australia, Hugh Jackman is eager to talk up the possibility of continuing to play Wolverine as long as the fans continue to show up for the movies. Basically, he's attaching himself to playing Logan with a furvor rarely seen since Clayton Moore refused to stop appearing at mall openings wearing the Lone Ranger mask. Although this article claims the villain in the next Wolverine movie will be the fairly obscure Cyber, what Jackman is actually quoted as talking about is a story set in Japan which suggests an adaptation of the 1982 4-issue Wolverine mini-series. That mini-series has the distinction of both single-handedly launching the concept of a "comic book mini-series" and separated Wolverine from the rest of the X-Men, making him a star. It also had great art by Frank Miller, and was a touching love story of sorts, as well as an exciting ninja adventure story.
#3 HANCOCK 2: HANCOCKIER?
Despite being mostly critically reviled (39% RT score), Hancock soared on the popularity of Will Smith to take in over $600 million worldwide. And so, it's probably not a surprised that when JoBlo.com asked Will Smith if he might ever play a superhero again, he replied that we will "definitely" see a Hancock sequel some day, saying that "there were a lot of unexplored characters" that would be "ripe for a sequel." Meanwhile, dozens of projects based upon established superhero characters with adoring fans languish in development.
#4 ROMANCING THE STONE REMAKE: CAN A RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK REDO BE FAR OFF?
Hollywood, seriously, enough with the freakin' remakes already. Oh well. Anyway, 20th Century Fox has hired screenwriter Daniel McDermott (cowriter of Eagle Eye) to write a remake of the 1984 hit, Romancing the Stone, which was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Romancing the Stone was an adventure-infused romantic comedy set in the jungles of South America about a romantic novelist who falls for a dashing adventurer, and was quite fun, inspiring a sequel, Jewel of the Nile. Romancing the Stone was accused at the time of being a Raiders of the Lost Ark rip-off, but really, it owes as much to the same sorts of classic movies and pulp fiction that inspired the Indiana Jones movies. Another movie in a similar spirit, The Rundown, was actually just made a few years ago, and they somehow did it without it being a remake. Buried in the piece is the news that Daniel McDermott is also working on writing a remake of Soylent Green, which seems a bit strange considering that the suspense of that movie is built upon a third act surprise that pretty much everyone knows now. Remaking Soylent Green is sort of like remaking The Sixth Sense or Citizen Kane, or for that matter, any movie which was done well the first time.
#5 THEY LIVE TO LIVE AGAIN
In the 1980s, you really couldn't avoid the WWF: every kid has his favorite, and I rooted for Rowdy Roddy Piper , a bombastic heel with a great sense of humor. He parlayed his success into a movie career that included Hell Comes to Frogtown and the starring role in John Carpenter's They Live, a movie that was very similar to the V TV mini-series, in that it was about aliens who were secretly taking over Earth by hiding among us. They Live is a fun ride of a movie, and so of course, it's getting remade, like pretty much every other 1980s movie that was perfectly awesome the first time. Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment (the Dawn of the Dead remake, Children of Men) have acquired the rights, but there's no writer or director attached yet. Buried in the piece is the news that Strike is also developing a remake of John Carpenter's The Thing, which was itself a remake (but quite different than the original). The question now is who do they think they can cast who can be more bubblegum-chewing kick ass than Rowdy Roddy Piper?
#6 JOHNNY DEPP TO BE IN THE HAND OF DANTE?
Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil production company has acquired the film rights to the 2002 Nick Tosche novel, In the Hand of Dante, in which a fictionalized version of Tosche acquires the original handwritten manuscript of Dante's The Divine Comedy, which sets him off on a journey of the soul that mirrors Dante's own struggles to write in poetic form an allegory of the human experience. Depp is expected to star, although whether he would play Dante or Tosche is unclear. Infinitum Nihil is developing several properties, including the Dark Shadows movie that Tim Burton is expected to direct, and the company's first movie to be produced, Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, which starts production in March, 2009, which will star Depp as the gonzo journalist (and in his later years, a good friend of Depp's).
#7 RUSSELL BRAND TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MOON AND NEW YORK CITY?
British comedian Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is working with Warner Bros to develop a remake of the Oscar winning 1981 comedy, Arthur. Arthur starred Dudley Moore as an alcoholic heir who falls in love with Liza Minelli, and gets catered to awesomely by his valet, played by Sir John Gielgud (who won an Oscar for the role). Christopher Cross also won an Oscar for "Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)", and then promptly vanished from cultural relevance. Although the 1988 sequel, Arthur 2: On the Rocks tarnished the original's reputation at the time, the 1981 film still holds up as a very funny tour de force for Dudley Moore for his cross of British fop and funny drunk. In other words, Arthur is a great comedy that really doesn't need to get remade. On the other hand, Russell Brand is pretty much the opposite in every way of Dudley Moore, so one can be sure that his Arthur will be a very different movie.
#8 ROME IF YOU WANT TO, ROME AROUND THE WORLD
As much as HBO deserves credit for long-running hits like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Sex and the City, which were allowed to grow old gracefully and end on their own terms, the network is also semi-notorious for the way two other shows, Deadwood and Rome, were cut off prematurely, with their stories forced to end short. Now, Rome producer Bruno Heller is talking about his plans to continue the show's story as a feature film, and along the way, he reveals the original five year plan for the series, and how they were forced to squeeze the planned story for seasons 2, 3 and 4 into what became the second and final season. Heller isn't alone in his enthusiasm, as Rome star Ray Stevenson (who was also this week cast in The Book of Eli) is also talking about returning. The big question mark, however, is how the series would return the character of Lucius, played by Kevin McKidd, who seemed to die at the end of season two. Heller suggests that there are ways around that. Right. Anyway, the first season of Rome was a spectacular vision and reinterpretation of ancient Rome, and the faults of season two are obviously due to HBO forcing it to an end. What they might do with a theatrical return is very exciting.
#9 THE ASSOCIATE: SHIA LEBEOUF, ESQUIRE
Paramount has cast Shia LeBeouf to star in an adaptation of the legal thriller novel, The Associate, by John Grisham, which will be published this coming January. There was a time in the 1990s when nearly every Grisham lawyer novel was adapted as a movie, but since 1996's The Runaway Jury, which was a movie in 2003, there have been nine Grisham novels that have not yet been made into movies, although some of them have been optioned. The first John Grisham movie was The Firm in 1993, which starred Tom Cruise, at the height of his career as a blockbuster star. There's no writer or director attached to The Associate, so it is probably a few years from getting made, which given LeBeouf's current star trajectory, will probably mean that he just might be as big of a star when The Associate eventually comes out as Cruise was in 1993.
#10 SAY IT... OUT LOUD... "ROCK STAR"
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has signed to play rocker Joan Jett in the long-in-development movie, The Runaways, about the groundbreaking 1970s all-girl rock group whose members also included Lita Ford and future Bangles member Micki Steele. The Runaways was written and will be the directorial debut of music video director Floria Sigismondi (who's worked with Sheryl Crowe and David Bowie), and production is expected to start in 2009, working around Stewart's commitments to the Twilight sequels.
For more Weekly Ketchup columns by Greg Dean Schmitz, check out the WK archive, and you can contact GDS through his MySpace page or via a RT forum messageand Greg also blogs about the TV show Lost, at TwoLosties.Blogspot.com.
#1 20TH CENTURY FOX REBOOTING PLANET OF THE APES AGAIN WITH CAESAR
The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.
#2 HUGH JACKMAN IS THE BEST AT WHAT HE DOES, AND WHAT HE DOES MAKES LOTS OF MONEY
X-Men Origins: Wolverine might be six months from release, but while he promotes Australia, Hugh Jackman is eager to talk up the possibility of continuing to play Wolverine as long as the fans continue to show up for the movies. Basically, he's attaching himself to playing Logan with a furvor rarely seen since Clayton Moore refused to stop appearing at mall openings wearing the Lone Ranger mask. Although this article claims the villain in the next Wolverine movie will be the fairly obscure Cyber, what Jackman is actually quoted as talking about is a story set in Japan which suggests an adaptation of the 1982 4-issue Wolverine mini-series. That mini-series has the distinction of both single-handedly launching the concept of a "comic book mini-series" and separated Wolverine from the rest of the X-Men, making him a star. It also had great art by Frank Miller, and was a touching love story of sorts, as well as an exciting ninja adventure story.
#3 HANCOCK 2: HANCOCKIER?
Despite being mostly critically reviled (39% RT score), Hancock soared on the popularity of Will Smith to take in over $600 million worldwide. And so, it's probably not a surprised that when JoBlo.com asked Will Smith if he might ever play a superhero again, he replied that we will "definitely" see a Hancock sequel some day, saying that "there were a lot of unexplored characters" that would be "ripe for a sequel." Meanwhile, dozens of projects based upon established superhero characters with adoring fans languish in development.
#4 ROMANCING THE STONE REMAKE: CAN A RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK REDO BE FAR OFF?
Hollywood, seriously, enough with the freakin' remakes already. Oh well. Anyway, 20th Century Fox has hired screenwriter Daniel McDermott (cowriter of Eagle Eye) to write a remake of the 1984 hit, Romancing the Stone, which was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Romancing the Stone was an adventure-infused romantic comedy set in the jungles of South America about a romantic novelist who falls for a dashing adventurer, and was quite fun, inspiring a sequel, Jewel of the Nile. Romancing the Stone was accused at the time of being a Raiders of the Lost Ark rip-off, but really, it owes as much to the same sorts of classic movies and pulp fiction that inspired the Indiana Jones movies. Another movie in a similar spirit, The Rundown, was actually just made a few years ago, and they somehow did it without it being a remake. Buried in the piece is the news that Daniel McDermott is also working on writing a remake of Soylent Green, which seems a bit strange considering that the suspense of that movie is built upon a third act surprise that pretty much everyone knows now. Remaking Soylent Green is sort of like remaking The Sixth Sense or Citizen Kane, or for that matter, any movie which was done well the first time.
#5 THEY LIVE TO LIVE AGAIN
In the 1980s, you really couldn't avoid the WWF: every kid has his favorite, and I rooted for Rowdy Roddy Piper , a bombastic heel with a great sense of humor. He parlayed his success into a movie career that included Hell Comes to Frogtown and the starring role in John Carpenter's They Live, a movie that was very similar to the V TV mini-series, in that it was about aliens who were secretly taking over Earth by hiding among us. They Live is a fun ride of a movie, and so of course, it's getting remade, like pretty much every other 1980s movie that was perfectly awesome the first time. Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment (the Dawn of the Dead remake, Children of Men) have acquired the rights, but there's no writer or director attached yet. Buried in the piece is the news that Strike is also developing a remake of John Carpenter's The Thing, which was itself a remake (but quite different than the original). The question now is who do they think they can cast who can be more bubblegum-chewing kick ass than Rowdy Roddy Piper?
#6 JOHNNY DEPP TO BE IN THE HAND OF DANTE?
Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil production company has acquired the film rights to the 2002 Nick Tosche novel, In the Hand of Dante, in which a fictionalized version of Tosche acquires the original handwritten manuscript of Dante's The Divine Comedy, which sets him off on a journey of the soul that mirrors Dante's own struggles to write in poetic form an allegory of the human experience. Depp is expected to star, although whether he would play Dante or Tosche is unclear. Infinitum Nihil is developing several properties, including the Dark Shadows movie that Tim Burton is expected to direct, and the company's first movie to be produced, Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary, which starts production in March, 2009, which will star Depp as the gonzo journalist (and in his later years, a good friend of Depp's).
#7 RUSSELL BRAND TO GET CAUGHT BETWEEN THE MOON AND NEW YORK CITY?
British comedian Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) is working with Warner Bros to develop a remake of the Oscar winning 1981 comedy, Arthur. Arthur starred Dudley Moore as an alcoholic heir who falls in love with Liza Minelli, and gets catered to awesomely by his valet, played by Sir John Gielgud (who won an Oscar for the role). Christopher Cross also won an Oscar for "Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)", and then promptly vanished from cultural relevance. Although the 1988 sequel, Arthur 2: On the Rocks tarnished the original's reputation at the time, the 1981 film still holds up as a very funny tour de force for Dudley Moore for his cross of British fop and funny drunk. In other words, Arthur is a great comedy that really doesn't need to get remade. On the other hand, Russell Brand is pretty much the opposite in every way of Dudley Moore, so one can be sure that his Arthur will be a very different movie.
#8 ROME IF YOU WANT TO, ROME AROUND THE WORLD
As much as HBO deserves credit for long-running hits like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under and Sex and the City, which were allowed to grow old gracefully and end on their own terms, the network is also semi-notorious for the way two other shows, Deadwood and Rome, were cut off prematurely, with their stories forced to end short. Now, Rome producer Bruno Heller is talking about his plans to continue the show's story as a feature film, and along the way, he reveals the original five year plan for the series, and how they were forced to squeeze the planned story for seasons 2, 3 and 4 into what became the second and final season. Heller isn't alone in his enthusiasm, as Rome star Ray Stevenson (who was also this week cast in The Book of Eli) is also talking about returning. The big question mark, however, is how the series would return the character of Lucius, played by Kevin McKidd, who seemed to die at the end of season two. Heller suggests that there are ways around that. Right. Anyway, the first season of Rome was a spectacular vision and reinterpretation of ancient Rome, and the faults of season two are obviously due to HBO forcing it to an end. What they might do with a theatrical return is very exciting.
#9 THE ASSOCIATE: SHIA LEBEOUF, ESQUIRE
Paramount has cast Shia LeBeouf to star in an adaptation of the legal thriller novel, The Associate, by John Grisham, which will be published this coming January. There was a time in the 1990s when nearly every Grisham lawyer novel was adapted as a movie, but since 1996's The Runaway Jury, which was a movie in 2003, there have been nine Grisham novels that have not yet been made into movies, although some of them have been optioned. The first John Grisham movie was The Firm in 1993, which starred Tom Cruise, at the height of his career as a blockbuster star. There's no writer or director attached to The Associate, so it is probably a few years from getting made, which given LeBeouf's current star trajectory, will probably mean that he just might be as big of a star when The Associate eventually comes out as Cruise was in 1993.
#10 SAY IT... OUT LOUD... "ROCK STAR"
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has signed to play rocker Joan Jett in the long-in-development movie, The Runaways, about the groundbreaking 1970s all-girl rock group whose members also included Lita Ford and future Bangles member Micki Steele. The Runaways was written and will be the directorial debut of music video director Floria Sigismondi (who's worked with Sheryl Crowe and David Bowie), and production is expected to start in 2009, working around Stewart's commitments to the Twilight sequels.
For more Weekly Ketchup columns by Greg Dean Schmitz, check out the WK archive, and you can contact GDS through his MySpace page or via a RT forum messageand Greg also blogs about the TV show Lost, at TwoLosties.Blogspot.com.
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on Dec 05 2008 07:31 PM In the Planet of the Apes entry, the second CHUD link is supposed to go (Reply to this) |
on Dec 05 2008 07:36 PM While I am not excited for the idea of a new Planet of The Apes series, it does intrigue me that they guy who did The Lookout is doing it because The Lookout was a great movie so he could make a great Apes intro movie but then again it is FOX. IDK about a Hancock 2, also I love how Will Smith says there are more interesting characters to explore in the Hancock universe, if so then why wasn't there an interesting villain or more then just one interesting character. Hopefully Wolverine is good because my hopes aren't high but I could be surprised because Gavin Hoode is a good director but it is FOX. Also guys I saw Punisher War Zone, I would give it a 5.5/10. I enjoyed the over the top stupidness for the most part but at times it annoyed me, and there were just so many plot holes that bothered me. But it was not the disaster I think a lot of people were expecting and I was at one point. I am looking forward to seeing Lexi Alexander's Director's Cut because I can tell it had post-production problems. I wanted to see more of Jigsaw and I wanted an insight of his motives, I enjoyed his terrible accent and bad makeup. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 05 2008 07:43 PM Also anyone going to into PUNISHER should know that the movie is not suppose to be taking seriously, it is one of those it is so bad it is kind of enjoyable movies- its got a bad script, bad editing, but its got fun over the top action and some weirdness to it I kind of liked but it could have been a better trash guilty pleasure movie. I would say it is better then the '04 version though. Also make sure u go with friends and go to a night time showing, I guarantee it will make the movie more fun. (Reply to this) |
on Dec 05 2008 09:43 PM I was ready to run away from the computer screaming "for the love of Mike, NO MORE Ape Remakes!!!" But I have to admit, the story sounds kind of cool. I liked Hancock, so a sequel might work. They Lived worked, so did The Thing, no remakes ever need to be done. (Reply to this) |
on Dec 05 2008 10:09 PM i think i may be the only person in the world that actually really liked Burton's Apes movie, i wouldn't mind seeing another remake of the series, i've enjoyed it so far and the fact that the director of The Lookout is attached to helm this one kind of even has me a little excited about it. however i think they should leave They Live alone, i just don't think it will translate into a good modern day movie, it's one of the those movies you watch and enjoy it partly due to the low budget 80's silliness of it all. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 05 2008 11:02 PM damnit. enough with the remake, re-imagining, sequel and/or prequel to awful movies. (Reply to this) |
on Dec 06 2008 01:57 AM You know, if we as a society vow to boycott remakes, they might go away. Let's start tomorrow. And Duckman, I hope you're referring to the Burton Planet of the Apes. Cause the original is far from awful. (Reply to this) |
on Dec 06 2008 06:14 AM That B-grade hack Shea LeBarf as a lawyer...?! o_0 Owh jeez... >_> (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 09:06 AM I'm with jokerboy on this one. Conquest is admittedly my favourite of the Apes films (though when you're only working with three decent films out of the five, maybe that doesn't say much...), and I think it's a damned interesting idea to remake one of the lesser known, and in my opinion more exciting, sequels. Not to mention The Lookout is my favourite film of '07 and with Frank attached I'm definitely even more interested. (Reply to this) |
on Dec 06 2008 09:36 AM "Planet of the Apes" remake again, or is it a remake of the remake... kidding, no one likes that trash. Orginal is great. Why does Kristen Stewart looked buzzed? Oh, wait she was in "Twilight". I'd see "X-Men Orgins: Wolverine", NOT "Australia". LeBeouf is a good actor. But can he play a lawyer? Maybe when he's older. "Hancock 2: Lock, Hancock, and Two Smoking Barrels", will be made and I haven't seen the first so I could get pshyced for it. Or fearful of it. And lastly Russel Brand. When he was on "Late Show with David Lettermann", he said something that could become an internet meme... "BANG! PREGNATE! BANG! PREGNATE" (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 10:16 AM Whats with the remake hate? Think about it...who are the majority of folks watching these remakes? Kids (by which I mean folks under 25) who never watched the originals...and most likely never will. Romancing (for example) was a great story which could be made accessible for a whole new generation through this remake. I for one have no problem with this. Now I'll admit a crappy remake of a beloved classic does aggravate me more than some generic crappy movie does, but by the same token I get that much more excited about a well done remake. Deal with it...a good story is a good story...even if it has been done before. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 10:18 AM Oh yeah...and why on earth does Johnny Depp get to keep making movies? Especially movies which, without his and/or Tim Burton's influence, could otherwise be pretty good. Pretty ridiculous. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 11:22 AM In reply to this comment (#2171187) Come on man, I am under 25 so don't throw me under that train, but yes I do have to agree that most people of my generation don't give a ***** about the originals. Also I don't think Romancing The Stone is out dated at all and kids can still love that movie, I know I do and I think remake is not needed. LOL also guys the Marky Mark version of Planet of The Apes is on FX now, "Never send an Ape to do a mans job!" lol classic line. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 12:27 PM About "remake hate"... as the writer of the Ketchup, let me address that. I don't hate remakes... if I hate some remakes, it's when they are remakes of movies that were perfectly good the first time around. "They Live", "Romancing the Stone" and "Arthur" are all pretty awesome movies in their own ways, so I don't see that they need to be remade. If I was to make a "top 100 movies of the 1980s" (a decade I am very familiar with :), those three would probably be somewhere on my list. Movie history is full of flawed movies... they can remake those all they want, and maybe the second time around we'll get a better movie. But to remake a GOOD movie, you're basically doomed from the start that your chances of improving on the original are low, and of course, if it was a GREAT movie, chances are even worse that you will end up with a disappointing result. As for the PotA prequel, by the time they made "Conquest", the Apes movies were definitely sort of cheap, so the idea of going back to that basic concept... is okay with me (especially since they're sort of going even farther back). (Reply to this) |
on Dec 06 2008 01:53 PM Russel Brand is about as unfunny as it gets. . . I miss "old" hollywood where they would copy a movie blatantly, and pretended they originated it. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 02:30 PM Shia shouldn't play a lawyer. Dante's could be good. Maybe. Remakes. Cheap way to make a buck. Hollywood close yourself until you come up with some original ideas. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 04:46 PM "King Kong" (2005) was a great remake of a great film. (Obviously the 1933 version.) Sadly jokerboy is right, people under 25 (like me) usally don't care about the orginals, with minor exceptions like anyone who would join a movie oriented website, (like me.) So gm1200, you're right, but don't say were all the same. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 05:08 PM In reply to this comment (#2170452) How about a sequel to "The Thing"...One of John Carpenters best movies with an ending that worked...needs a sequel. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 06 2008 08:12 PM In reply to this comment (#2172130) Yeah King Kong was a great remake and while I do LOVE the original I actually liked the movie more because I felt more sympathetic towards Kong and I lol cried like a baby at the end. The only other remake I can think that was better was the 70's Invasion of The Body Snatchers and Christopher Nolan's remake of Insomnia. I just don't see the logic of remaking something great, I see no problem at all remaking movies that are just good or mediocre or crappy. Like I want to be a director some day and there some movies that I would love to remake like Equilibrium and The Happening. I always enjoyed Equilibrium but I wish the movie didn't go down the action route and I would have liked to see more of a noir-ish version and see them in a ****ty looking city to make it seem like the drug was more powerful showing how drugged they are, also the movie kept contradicting itself like how was Taye Diggs feeling jealousy?!? The Happening was a great idea but was executed terribly, I thought they should have not explained what was going on, also it had bad dialogue and bad acting so I think that could have been better. Sorry I am on a rant, but those are just 2 movies I desperately want remade and I want to remake them (Reply to this) |
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