The problem with remakes is, it's all well and good to think positively about it, but there's a big risk that the remake will suck big time.
I like this movie - it's corny, and very 70s, but that's also it's strong points. In the days where cgi takes over everything, and there's stuff all real stunt work (except for some asian martial arts cinema, where they are still the real deal, and damn good at it) - it might end up really bad. It's not exactly related, but I've heard there is talk of a 'final' indiana jones film, but with the specific goal that there'll be no cgi, using all 'real' stuntwork on principle. There's the risk that some people are so used to the new paradigm that it'll look lame to them, but for me, it's the work/effort of the real people that makes the film.
So for the reasons that there's big risk of it not turning out as good, I'd vote no on a remake.
Remakes sometimes are considerably better than the original. In that category I'd have to put up 'the departed' as being a better film than 'infernal affairs'. I 'get' what the infernal affairs ending was about, but I preferred the ending (even if it was 'guilty' of giving the audience what they wanted in the end, albeit with a few unexpected twists) and even the general journey of the remake.
Having said that, if it _did_ go ahead, I'd like to see someone like Eric Bana (if they can extract a performance like he displayed in 'chopper', not most of his other films) as a king pin/bad guy, Tony Leung *(who was in infernal affairs - in the role roughly equivalent to di Caprio's, and was by far the standout actor in the original) as Fang Sing Leng
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