would you like to see a remake of this?

I don’t particularly care for remakes. However, I don’t have anything against new tv adaptations of classic literature (I tend to prefer tv for these as it allows more time to adapt more of the story).

That said, I think Conrad’s story missed the window. The mid 1990s to early 2000s was really the high water mark for the BBC costume drama literary adaptation. That really was a great time for programs set in that historical era: Hornblower, Sharpe’s, Austen, Thackeray, Tolstoy, etc.

It’s been downhill ever since

A remake would be pointless. It's been done well already, and it's even in color.

Heresy.

The only drawback to this film was that they didn't speak in French accents -- or it wasn't in French. Otherwise it would have been absolutely perfect.

Only if Ridley Scott had some input, or better still as the Director again.

No, I enjoy the original. It wouldn't be heresy, but I don't think a remake would improve on it.

All I would like is for Scott to go back and add some epic battle scenes to the original, ala Lucas's revision of Star Wars. He did not have the budget for big battles when he made this. I think a drama set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars would benefit from at least one enormous battle.

Remaking period films is pointless. You can't modernize them. But I can see it working as a miniseries.