remake


I've seen some really crappy movies remade lately...this would NOT be one of them. This movie is ripe for a remake (25 yrs old & material isn't dated) So many options to play the lead characters much less the great secondary characters. So to the powers that be....don't let this one pass you by (and for GOD'S SAKE DON'T PUT JESSICA SIMPSON IN IT)

Thank you


Shari

Mistress of the Dark Unconscious
Animate Me

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I agree -- done right with the right director, this would be a GREAT Remake.

I'd get Scarlett Johannsen as 'The girl'

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I hope Ms. Johannsen can do a convincing Southern accent. I'd also hope whoever produces/writes a remake keeps the characters at LEAST as true to the John D. MacDoanld novel as this TV-movie did. If you haven't read the book, get it, you'll love it.

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That upcoming Adam Sandler movie "Click" looks like it has some things in common with "The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything". Don't think it's a remake, but it must have been influenced...

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It is a remake of this TV Made Film.
but they just change the gold watch into a TV Remote.

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don't forget the movie clockstoppers which was a very poorly disguised kids version of this story.

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On the other hand, the "Gold Watch" itself is a rehash of the Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch".

Addendum: I see that elsewhere someone points out that McDonald's novel was published in 1962, which predates the TZ episode. I suppose, then, that TZ must've paid something for the rights to make their episode.

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MacDonald does not receive any writing credit for that TZ episode. So maybe the story was different enough that they didn't need to pay for the rights.

It is better to be kind than to be clever or good looking. -- Derek

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Gotta get Kellie Pickler for Bonnie Lee. She probably doesn't have any acting ability, but she wouldn't need it -- she practically IS Bonnie Lee Beaumont.

Soon we must all face the choice -- between what is right, and what is easy.

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Personally I can see how I would finish off the badguys in the end, picture this:

The police get a call to a bank alarm, and when they bust in with guns drawn what's-his-face comes to standing before them, an emtpy uzi in one hand, a bag of money in the other, and his clothes bulging with bags and bags of cocaine. Charla is right behind him with classified nuclear documents stuffed in her cleavage.

Dawber and Hays HAVE to have at least cameos!

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