Would love a remake

I'm wondering about this too.

I read the book back when I was about 14 years old. I was really into the sea at that time, wanted to be an oceanographer when I grew up, and Peter Benchley's books and movies were one of my inspirations for that. At the time the concept seemed far-fetched but interesting. I waited with great anticipation for the movie to come out in theaters, but it never opened in any theaters where i lived.

Now, 36 years later I finally purchased the DVD on Amazon and saw it for the first time. It just seemed disappointing, and didn't turn out to be as good of a film as I thought it would be. Even Michael Caine's performance was mediocre, and I can't figure out why they would even cast him in the lead role. The acting wasn't really all that great, and neither was the cinematography. In the initial scenes, the tourists who get murdered by the pirates are all fat, ugly and dorky-looking. And the pacing of it was horrible. Too much time spent traveling down there, the kid doing target practice at the gun range, flying to Navidad, crashing the plane on Navidad, etc... In the book, when the pirates take over the boat that had the cocaine, I don't remember that cheesy martial arts fighting scene at all.

So, I dunno, MAYBE with better directing, acting and cinematography, a remake of this could be a half-decent horror/suspense movie. -Or not. It could be that the book seemed so good to me when I was 14 years old because I had a favorable bias towards Peter Benchley's material at the time, giving me a clouded preconception. Certainly "The Deep" was a better story and movie than this one.

I would like that too.