Remake

OK, Okay, Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay... I will.


But, it would still be a classic if it was remade, badly or otherwise.

Remakes don't hurt the original film in any way - just like Stephen King replies when asked how he feels about Hollywood ruining his stories: They aren't ruined, they're still sitting nicely on the shelf (or something similar).

The point being, allow stories to be adapted/remade for different times, it can't disparage the original work (if it's good) in any way and we might come out with another classic.

Look at the two versions of CAPE FEAR (adapted from The Executioners by John D. MacDonald). The remake doesn't cancel out the original, just as the earlier film doesn't make the novel any less of a gripping read. (Scorsese himself has said that he feels that CAPE FEAR could be updated for every generation or so.)

I remain open to the idea of remaking a classic (or a semi-classic, or a cult) film because you never know they just might make something as worthy as - or better than - the first (see Carpenter's THE THING and Cronenberg's THE FLY).

If not, then we've always got the original to treasure (see Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 and Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD).

Personally, I'm looking forward to Brad Anderson's remake of George Romero's THE CRAZIES (which I love).


THE NIGHTHING

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=7100585
http://www.ymdb.com/nightthing/l27681_ukuk.html

I would welcome a remake. Yes bring back the orignal director. Nice one.

peter webber bought the filmrights with mgm.then he made hannibal rising,and saw his rights of blue sunshine expire.

All very good points, Levi. (And "the evil bastard idiot cousin of The Big Chill" description is golden.)

However, good or bad, remakes put a spotlight on the original film - I'd just like to see a little attention paid to this under-known '70s gem.




THE NIGHTTHING THEATRE - Now with 17% more baaaadness!

Actually, you are wrong. In the 80s, there were a large number of designer drugs created in labs by budding drug dealers/chemists. They rewrote the chemical structures of current drugs to create drugs with similar effects but were not listed as controlled substances; all of this with the hopes that if push came to shove, they could beat drug charges. Those "users" would now be in their 40s and 50s and would be in positions of control and power. Prime material for a remake with the same political undertones of the original film.

I love the original, but, in the right hands, this could be a wonderful remake.

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