Remake

Hi I read many years ago that John Carpenter was looking into a remake - but then it went quiet.

A remake could work if it was done in the same way that the 1950's classic 'Invasion of the body snathers' was updated to 1970's America by Philip Kaufman i.e tapping into modern day anxieties.

What we wouldn't want is a CGI blockbuster full of dumb effects.

This was a very thoughtful piece of science fiction. And any remake would need to be carefully addressed if it wasn't going to sink into just another bug-fest.

I think it would be nice to see it remade in the `Underground' once more as that environment has such enormous scope for `atmosphere'. There's at least a dozen permanently-disused subterranean stations which could be commandeered almost indefinitely without inconvenience to the public or danger to the actors and crew. So the sets are already and waiting.

Actually; I think the `explanation' of Martian ferocity would be best left out. It would be sufficient to say that they came to Earth, screwed about with the apes of that time, and left a legacy of such suffering and terror that it `tainted' the places they occupied. All that stuff about headsets, and thoughts on screens was too hokey for me. If you've seen `Whistle And I'll Come To You' you'll know what I mean. Or perhaps you've read Clarke Ashton-Smith's wonderful and not so far removed `The Double Shadow'.

Some people seem to get restive without neat little denouements - check-out the grumbles over Hitchcock's unexplained `The Birds'. `Why did they do it?` Who gives a *beep* Let mystery be mysterious, I say.

u call this a classic? the first one 'creeping unknown' was
a classic why have they not made that one.really good
story and monster.this one u like is long and so boring.
and oh god man is made from martians real startling huh
like that hasn't been told so many times in tv , books and
movies.

The most effective element in the film is the brainless, violent mass behaviour that takes over at the end, whether the reason for it is Martian heritage, or something a bit more terrestial.

This is one of the very few films/series I would actually like to see remade. In proper hands it would be a breath of fresh air in amidst the mindless crap the hacks of Hollywood are shoving down our throats.

Sh!tkicker from Finland

i hope this film is never remade, the reason being is look what happened when they remade the day the earth stood still, in the oridginal they punished the earth by cutting off the electricity except for certain item that needed to be running, but in the remake that robot turned into a swarm of deadly bugs that destroyed anything and everyone in its path, in the old version the earth was at risk from nuclear war and the aliens tried to save us (that`s nice of them), but in the new version it was a case of *beep* you humans say your goodbyes, when qatp was first made times where different and the film reflects that and also requires that to appeal to whoever is watching it, and it clearly works because even today people can watch this film and relate to it, they understand what life was like then even those who are too young to have lived in those times, have some understanding of life back then, but if the film was remade with modern effects and set in the 21st century, it would n`t work as well and if you compare the different versions of war of the worlds, the old version portrayed humans as victims powerless against an invasion and it kept reminding you about it, but the remake side tracked from that point and tried to focus your attention on tom criuse`s character and family, who in the film where just a family and nothing more, and then there was the errors and misplots, for example after the lightining strikes he picks up a chunk of rock, and what keeps it for good luck, does he do anything with it in a deleted scene, no please whatever don`t remake quatermass and the pit, leave it alone.

Actually, this movie WAS the remake----of a 1950s British TV show by the same name.

Yes, the movie is already a remake (or condensation) of a TV series, which is the superior version.

A remake in these PC times would be a bad idea. They couldn't have humanity made intrinsically evil by (tampered) evolution, carrying intolerance as part of its genome, in a movie these days.

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