San Fran, CA The Upcoming Remakes and Reboots Thread

Love 'em or hate 'em. Remakes are not going away from the movie screens any time soon. This thread exists to log the many remakes and reboots coming our way. Sometimes remakes and reboots work. The reboot of the Batman franchise definitely worked for example. Martin Scorsese's Departed was pretty good for a remake of Infernal Affairs. Then there are others that just make you shake you head. Recently we saw remakes of Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Last House on the Left.

Some movies to uh...look forward to.

The Neverending Story
Drop Dead Fred
Land of the Lost
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Clash of the Titans
Cliffhanger
The Karate Kid produced by Will Smith and Starring Jackie Chan and Jada Smith
Fright Night
Escape From New York
Grayskull a reboot of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Inglorius Basterds new Tarantino


There are bound to be others, including the rumored Monster Squad, Top Gun, and even Red Sonja. 47 Ronin is constantly being remade in Japan, but supposedly this time with Keanu Reeves. There is a rumor that Sam Raimi will do an American remake of House of Flying Daggers too.

So what are people looking forward to? Post your opinions along with any other remake and reboot news you may have.

 

They're remaking Cliffhanger? Why? It's not even that old school, actually... It didn't even have a school. Grayskull maybe cool if they do it right... Karate Kid just maybe epic fail since Jackie Chan does not specialize in karate! The Never Ending story maybe cool but it can also be an epic fail too.

 

But wait, there's more!

RED DAWN is coming!

 

FOOTLOOSE
Plot Summary: Based on the original 1984 "Footloose." The new version will feature new songs that will complement some of the memorable original tunes from the film that made Kevin Bacon a star.
http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=50058

There seems to e a pattern here of remaking 80's movies. Almost everything on the list is from that era.

Robert Rodriguez's Predators
http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=54800
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Screenwriter: Robert Rodriguez
Plot Summary: Robert Rodriguez and 20th Century Fox are giving Predator a facelift in a new film entitled "Robert Rodriguez's Predators." (no plot details available at this time)

Not a movie remake, but look for a television revival of V starring Alan Tudyk and Morena Baccarin

 

Because we deserve it I guess:

The Last Dragon Directed by The RZA and starring Chris Brown and Samuel L. Jackson

The Wariors by Tony Scott who has brought us remakes of The Taking of Pelham 123 and The Andromeda Strain. He will also be bringing us a reboot of the Alien Franchise with a new Prequel.

And then there's Girls Just Want to Have Fun which dfies any sort of reason.

 

LOL! The Last Dragon?! hahaha.... Let's eat our pop corn with chopsticks! Sho nuff! hahaha...

 

Now there's talk of redoing Saturday Night Fever?! C'mon!

 

Hollywood has officially run out of ideas... lol

 

Here is the trailer for FAME
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56325

And the Bride of Frankenstein is being remade http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=56344

 

I wonder who would play He-Man! If his sister She-Ra is in it I"m goin fa'sho!

 

You know what they should remake? Top Gun!

But instead of F-16s or F-22s they should Incom T-65 X-wing! Oh and instead of Migs they should use Siennar Fleet's Twin Ion Engine fighters! OH! and instead of Top Gun they should called it Rogue Squadron.

 

I thought the remake of Footloose is based on the stage musical not the movie?
And speaking of "V", can't wait to see the pilot at Comic-Con!

 

I hope GL does special editions for the prequels

 

GL probably won't but maybe Adywan will. It'd be nice if they did actually CG Yoda for Episode I, at least. I didn't like that new puppet they used. ILM did do a test of a CG head on the puppet body on one of the AOTC or ROTS DVD featurettes, I think. It looked waaay better!

 

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

Just thought I'd drop in on you guys again

OMG, I had no idea they were remaking some of those movies !!

 

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

 

OK, this is just uncalled for:

http://bit.ly/AQrV4

I actually think Rain is cool, even if he's not a genuinely trained martial artist(as can be seen by the trailer for Ninja Assassin), but YOU DO NOT REMAKE Enter the Dragon!

Excerpt from article:

In development for two years, AWAKEN THE DRAGON is a noir-style remake of Bruce Lee?s 1973 film. Back in 2007, Sutter stated that it will be a contemporized drama about a lone FBI agent who pursues a rogue Shaolin monk into the bloody world of underground martial arts fight clubs.

To fill the role of the Shaolin monk, Sutter had been looking to discover a fight star while an established American actor would play the FBI agent.

So the Asian guy is supposed to be the villain and the White guy is supposed to be the lead? Whereas Enter the Dragon had Bruce Lee as an agent infiltrating an Asian crime boss's operation. Enter the Dragon was supposed to be Bruce Lee's big debut to Western audiences and show that an Asian could be a lead hero. Unfortunately by the above description, it's an insult to what Lee stood for.

 

I thought the V remake looked potentially interesting. You can only judge so much by a pilot episode, but at least it wasn't terrible. Some of the core concepts are the same as the original, but there's also a lot of new stuff and some twists on a couple of the original concepts.