Do you think they will remake this one too??

Some things should be left alone, and a poor remake of DMCL would suggest that no one really understood the original. Consider the remake of Vanishing Point (1997): The original movie did not convey the end accurately from the book that Kowalski thought he could get past the bulldozers, because in his mind he could see a "vanishing point" beyond the blades. The remake gets this part a little more correct but fundamentally changes the story by bringing a wife into it. The DMCL story is simple, and does not pretend to be better than it is. What I like about DMCL is that it was filmed when there where '69 Chargers still on the road. People raced them at the drag strip, then drove the same cars home. DMCL is partly a tribute to that car culture, but those days of dime-a-dozen true muscle cars are gone.

Billy Bob Thornton as Deke! Dunno about the rest. But use a Road Runner for the car?

i'm replyin the avenger here

1) gezz that 2006 charger is ugly as hell and should NEVER have been made in the first place let alone using the charger name the guy that came up with the idea for the 2006 was a freakin tool and top banana is not even close to the right color in the movie it was a LIGHT GREEN type of color not a PUKE YELLOW! (and before you get started on the "oh the 06 looks MUCH better in public the pictures dont do it justice" well i have seen it and it looks worse in real life) no muscle car should be 4 door.......ever!

(well that was kinda long but i love the 69 charger and hate the 06 one >:( )

2) yeah......britney spears eh? her tits are sagging lower then my GRANDMOTHERS!
(the rest i dont have a problem with :P )

3) i wonder why most of the good car chase movies ended with the main people DIEING? i would scrath the ending and have it end just a few seconds eralyer then the original did and do the amrican gaffiti thing and have "mary coombs - died in car crash - 1980" and make up things like that or whatever

so there i have it :P

okay

bye

thatoneguy

It's a personal dream of mine to remake this film. I was 6 when it came out and it's been in my top 5 ever since. If I ever get to live the dream I'll try to make you all proud.

...then don't put knoxville and Spears in it. That's all the advice I can give. They're forgettable people who belong to forgettable movies. and i wanna smell gasoline rubber and burnt brakes while watching the movie. If you can do that then how can you go wrong?

Dude... they can't change the ending! That's what tops this film off perfectly!

(I realize I'm responding four years later, almost to the day.)

Are you kidding? Change the ending? That is the best movie ending ever! It couldn't end any other way. What they ride off into a prison yard at sunset?

It's a shocking ending that is the only way it could end. It needs to be re-made that way.

Hey samuri5 you are so right.

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Mark,

I have a widescreen DVD of THE GUMBALL RALLY, and I never tire of the early sequence where the cars leave the garage and race through Manhattan. That Daytona was my first love! Auto-erotica, lol!

You have to see Walter Hill's THE DRIVER(1978). You're not a true scholar of car chases until you've watched that.

I was also dissatisfied with the remake of "Gone" and THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. However, I think the 40-minute chase scene in the original "Gone" is probably overkill.

Oh man i hope they dont remake it. Havent they wrecked enough Chargers in films already??. As a Mopar fan, i just couldnt bear it. However, nice cast list Detroit.

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Any remakes will suck.

Rain Wilson as Larry,
Steve Carell as Zeke,
Jenna Fisher as Mary.

Chances are I've spelled one or more of their names incorrectly, but you know who I'm talking about.

And no crappy CGI cars and helicopters. Film the real deal, just like in the original movie.

I agree with a lot of y'all in that...this is one they should just leave alone. I think it would get cast all wrong, the story might be changed to something so ridiculous, no matter how stupid and ridiculous the original one was. And, my biggest fear is that they would break down and try to use original '69 Chargers or some other kind of Muscle Mopar or classic to try and keep an "authenticity" to the original. Well, I'm sick of seeing great old cars, and especially Mopars, basically get destroyed for the sake of a movie. At the same time...even if they did use newer so-called "muscle" cars of today, which to me don't have the class, style and character of the originals, would just cause the movie to suffer in comparison.
I worked a bit on Tarantino's "Death Proof", as he filmed a lot of it in Austin. We filmed a few scenes at Austin's old airport, which now facilitates a movie studio, among other things. But, while they were filming, I could look behind a fence, and see the black '69 Charger and white '71 Challenger back there, being driven, as the stunt drivers were just practicing..as well as Kurt Russell's Nova. I think Tarantino did a great job of making a good "muscle car" chase movie...by the way it was filmed, edited, and the veteran drivers he had working on the movie. But at the same time, I was still sad to see a few more Chargers and a few more Challengers bite the dust. I know they didn't kill any true R/Ts, as they used some good base model coupes and fit them with badges. But still...a few more died. I watch some of these movies and wish I could go to them and say "hey, I have this old '84 Toyota just sitting in my driveway. Why don't y'all wreck THAT vehicle, and give me that nice old classic you're about to trash!" Of course, car chases with little Toyota pickups don't quite boost ticket sales. Damn the luck.
I'll tell ya one movie I'd like to see remade, which I actually think they could do a good job of, and possibly use a modern muscle car and do it with some style. And that's "The Driver" with Ryan O'Neil and Bruce Dern. Don't know how many of you have seen that one, but not a bad movie. And another thing I'm thinkin...it's only a matter of time before we start seeing the new Challenger and Camaro in new movies to come. Of course, we're still talking about good ol' muscle car movies where the cars really were the stars of it. And to me, there's nothing new that compares to the style and character of original, vintage American muscle. But that's just me. Call me old fashioned....