Remake?

Over Steven's dead body!!

Honestly, I think that if there was a remake, that William H. Macy should play in it as Mann, and that it should be a remake still set within the late 1960/early 1970s. The reason for it is because of the fact that a modern day remake would be impossible because people would be asking "Why the hell doesn't this guy have a cellphone, especially if he's a businessman?" or "Why the hell haven't the police picked up this guy when he's killed multiple people with his truck?" and several other questions relating to modern technology and police procedure. By having it be a period piece, it removes those problems out of the equation. But I think William H. Macy is a pretty great actor and he can have the calm businessman demeanor that Mann would require at the start of the movie, and have that animalistic/panicking that he has during the last act.

But alas, I prefer Spielberg's film to not be touched. There's quite a few stories that Matheson has made, some of them being turned into episodes of "The Twilight Zone," and others having not been touched (one I can think of is a story called "Trespass," with a man who starts out suspecting that his wife cheated on him while he was away on military service due to her being pregnant when he wasn't there, only for the baby to turn out to be... Well, I really don't want to spoil it for you).

But this one's eating my popcorn!

"It would be neat to see a remake."


What would be really neat if there were never another "remake"
of anything. Sequels, prequels and remakes have ruined the
movie-going experience. Originality is dead when all Hollywood
can do is resurrect old films and old ideas.

Like many others here, I love this movie. However, I might like to see what could be done with it in this day and age as far as a remake.

I think the cell phone issue could be gotten around by having the David Mann character either lose, break or just forget the charger for his phone. And there are still some desolate areas of the West where it wouldn't be out of the question to lose cell service.

I would like to see Mann played by Luke Wilson. Sure, he is known for comedies primarily, but in my opinion, he was very good in "Vacancy". I think he could pull off a suspense thriller.

A remake would be cool, but it would have to take place in the same era since nowadays, most people have cell phones (with cameras). The feel of being alone and isolated is way less prevalent now. My suggestion for the male lead would be Hugh Laurie...

Listen, I don't know what you're talking about. I live in florida
and there are many places here that if you drive in the middle
of the state that you don't have ANY cell service.
Not only that, I have a MetroPCS phone, that I currently can't afford,
so it is turned off, but if it was on, it only has service in the
city area, when I go too far outside the city, it wont work, even
though there is very good service in these areas for Verizon and
Tmobile, sprint, but MetroPCS is a cheap service because they don't
pay for the cell towers that are out in BFE due to cost.
And don't tell me that people don't use Metro cause it is huge here,
since there isn't much out there in the middle of florida but farmland.
So to your next point about not having anywhere that would be credible
since there are all these interstates, it doesn't hold up here in florida,
I don't know about anywhere else but here the interstates only goe up
and down the coast, and only pass back and forth through the middle
in a couple of spots, so if you need to get to the other coast, and
it is directly over, you might have to drive way out-of-the-way to get
there if you tried to stick to the interstate. that's why most people
would definitely take the smaller state and county roads which we have
many, like webs. and some of them are heavily traveled, but many you
might only see a couple of cars as you drive.But to be sure, if you do take
any of these back ways, your MetroPCS phone wont work.
I for one, like in the Cape Coral area, and you can check it on google
maps, that if I have to drive to Orlando to go to Disney, I do not
drive the interstate, it burns too much gas and it takes longer than
if I drive straight through the middle.



So it is simple, your theory on not being able to do a remake is flawed.
there still many many places in america that your don't want to travel
on and break down on, so they same could go for those same road would
def. be barren enough to have a crazy killer truck, cause if it killed
you, he would get rid of your car and bodies in the back of his trailer
with a winch set up, so the cops would never know what he is up to.
and the cell phone thing is bogus since you can have the best cell phone
in the world, but you get out of your service area then it wont work
and if you are a crazy trucker then you would know all the good spots,
not ever let anybody escape, and if you want to go even further, he could
even have a high-powered cell phone jammer!!!! lol



ok I can't believe I type all this, my fingers hurt now...






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It wouldn't work because all he'd have to do is call the cops on his cellphone.

I would like to see Bryan Cranston in a Remake.