It has been announced in Variety that Steve Carr, the director who gave us such great classics (sarcasm) as Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Daddy Day Care will now direct a remake of the 1986 sci-fi lite movie Short Circuit.
Now, I will grant you that some amazing remakes have come out of Hollywood, such as this year’s Star Trek reboot. But far more often we get a pointless and dumbed-down movie like last year’s The Day the Earth Stood Still or the ego-stroking remake of King Kong from Peter Jackson. Admittedly, his version of the movie was visually stunning but it should have been an hour shorter; the fight scene between Kong and the dinosaurs just seemed to go on and on.
I realize that remakes will continue but is it too much to ask that there be a requirement that the remake have an intelligent update or perhaps make them use the original script with only factual updates?
You know they’re probably guna start on the classic vampire movies next because of all this twilight shit? Prepare to see a brutal remake of The Lost Boys staring Shia LeBeouf in the near future or maybe even Nosferatu with bill murry as the vampire because they wanted to make a wacky remake
Oh and, when it happens, remember that I fuckin called it!
While remakes are a travesty, “reimaginings” are somewhat less so. I’m actually looking forward to when George Lucas dies and someone else takes another crack at the prequels.
Every single tv show/comic book/novel will be turned into a movie eventually. Every movie will be remade. They don’t really care if the movie is good or not, only that it makes a profit.
Star wars remake? It’ll happen eventually.. Maybe before that we can get Star Wars in that shitty REAL-D filter that they’ve been re-releasing old movies in.
The reason why there are so many remakes, (or so I heard), is that when Coca-Cola bought Columbia Pictures, the big-wigs at Coke went in on that first board meeting and asked, “How much money are we making this year?”
The board, (obviously), didn’t know, because the success of the movie business is based on how well, or how bad a movie does.
This is not the way Coke does business.
So in order to ‘know’ how much a studio will make, they don’t take a chance on a new story, or a new idea. The answer is the remake, the sequel, the prequel the adaptation. They go with a sure-thing. This way, they can play the demographics, and based on how well a movie will do in theatres, (or straight to DVD), they can adjust their budgets accordingly.
Think of some of the big movies, Where The Wild Things Are (book), Lord Of The Rings (book), The Watchmen (comic book), The Dark Knight (ditto), A Christmas Carol (please).
The movie industry has next to nothing to do with art or even making a good movie. It’s about making money, and lots of it. And we can sit here and bitch about how Hollywood sucks, but it’s never going to get better.
This is why Allah created indie films.
By the by, they already did a Nosferatu remake. More or less anyway: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189998/