Unnecessary Remakes: Why Fix What Ain't Broken?

[chonies]

I'd be slightly interested in a Weird Science remake if they flipped some gender things around.

[Witchie]

Jan 13, 2015 15:22:08 GMT -4 GoldenFleece said:

Ben Affleck re-teaming with David Fincher and Gillian Flynn for a 'Strangers on a Train' remake:

Though the Hitchcock remake–a Warner Bros library title and an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel–will be its basis, this film will be contemporary and redefined for the times. This one might be best titled Strangers On A Plane, as Affleck will play a variation of the role played by Farley Granger of a tennis pro who is bored with his marriage and wants to get divorced, but instead gets entwined with a wealthy socialite psycho who proposes the notion of exchanging murders. The twist here is a compelling one. Affleck will play a movie star–in the middle of a campaign for an Oscar during awards season–whose private plane breaks down and is given a ride to LA on another plane by a wealthy stranger. In Fincher’s hands, who knows how that goes, but it sure does seem like fertile ground.

Ben's playing an actor who's going to bump off his wife for the AMPAS sympathy votes? I guess it's too far gone to trot out the wife and kids for photo ops at the farmers' market? At least they are putting a new twist on it instead of another shot-for-shot remake like Psycho.

No.

[heyalice]

No, no, no no no no. No.

[ratscabies]

Jan 13, 2015 17:53:24 GMT -4 heyalice said:

No, no, no no no no. No.

Oh, Mama mia, Mama mia....


(Sorry!)

[heyalice]

Jan 13, 2015 20:38:38 GMT -4 ratscabies said:

Jan 13, 2015 17:53:24 GMT -4 heyalice said:

No, no, no no no no. No.

Oh, Mama mia, Mama mia....


(Sorry!)

You just can't help yourself..

[Carolinian]

I was reading the IMDb entry for the director/choreographer Kenny Ortega and it list one of his upcoming projects as a remake of Dirty Dancing, to be set in Peru. With a dancing alpaca farmer. I had to check to see if this was an April's Fools joke. (Ortega choreographed the original, BTW.)

[chonies]

I would totally watch that.

[Mugsy]

Didn't they already (try to) remake Dirty Dancing?

[sumire]

Yeah, and it was set in Cuba. I don't know if it had a dancing tobacco farmer, though.

[eclair]

Can alpacas be trained to go through some dance moves, and do they enjoy it? I would be interested in an all alpaca version of Dirty Dancing. Or, well, any movie really.