I am so so so excited about this being remade!

More well known does not automatically mean better movie. I'm sick of this cult-classic not being a "real-classic" *beep* There are plenty of more obscure movies that are better than mainstream ones. Compare 'Electra Glide In Blue' to 'Bad Boys' and you'll see what I mean. Yes, more people have seen 'Bad Boys' but which one is a better movie?

I gave the 1975 film a solid 1 out of 10 stars. Why?
Because the film was a horrid caricature of a brilliant Novella by Harlan Ellison.

First of all, Moore, Jones and Cruseturner (uncredited) managed to pour this award winning bit of literature through the Hollywood meat-grinder to turn out a script destined to fail. The script couldn’t decide whether it was attempting to be true to Ellison’s work or to please the tastes of a heterogeneous target audience. Through its indecision, it failed to do either.

Secondly, the cinematography was horrid even by 1975 standards. Compare the screen shots to those of "Zardoz", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and Amicus production’s "The Land that Time Forgot". Though they’ve become classics they honestly had some of the worst cinematography of that year, and each of them used far better cinematography than did A Boy and his Dog.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Don Jonson was all wrong for the lead. One of the script rewrites was to make the main character older specifically so they could get this upcoming male heartthrob as their lead. With the rewrite, they should have changed the title to, “A Young Man and his Dog.” Perhaps they thought the audience wouldn’t notice the discrepancy. I suppose they kept the original title to sucker in the Ellison fans—even although they changed just about everything else.

I know this film won a Hugo in ’76. By granting it that award though, they seriously demeaned the other winners whom deserved to win. Does ANYONE out there really think this film is in the same quality category as the original "Rollerball" or "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? To make matters worse, Caan was forced to “share” his Saturn with Johnson—in spite of Johnson’s complete inability to act.

So yes, I would LOVE to see this film remade, because I hate shoddy work by alleged professionals.

Ideally a modern remake would star someone who can pull off the role of a boy, such as Christopher Mintz-Plasse (with glasses,) but perhaps he now is even getting too old for the role. A better possible age appropriate male lead would be Jaden Smith. The 1975 script should be thrown in the fire and completely rewritten—preferably by Guillermo Del Toro, whom is one of the few directors out there of a caliber competent enough to deal with Ellison’s work. As a final consideration, modern CGI would even allow us to see the dog’s lips move when he speaks.

But a remake by Moore? Gods, I'll have to poke out my other eye.