I love this film despite it's flaws & sometimes corny dialogue, but think it would make for a good remake. Russell Crowe & maybe Ellen Page could star. Although Molly Ringwald would be tough to replace.
shareNo need to replace Molly's character, just omit her entirely and keep Chalmers through the film.
Recipe for greatness. :)
Hell bring Ernie back to play his character again, and just make him a bit older and wiser. Guy looks like he's barely aged.
Why?
Remakes have rarely done anything good for the film and the latest fashion of remaking utterly awesome films has Hollywood churning out nothing more than complete CGI-heavy dross. Don't believe me? Go watch the *new* Clash Of The Titans and then we'll talk...
Why not remake something more successful, like Indiana Jones - Just cast the most currently famous young stars, whack on a load of CGI and there's your formula... oh wait, they already did that one in Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and it's pretty much universally slated and hated.
Films that have been made already DO NOT need remaking. They are fine as is and they work because of how they are. There are PLENTY of other untold tales for Hollywood to draw upon and make some cracking flicks from,without having to rape existing classics, regardless of whether they're big budget blockbusters or obscure cult favourites!
Remaking films is an insult to everything the cast and crew of the original ever did and wrecks some of our most cherished memories.
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I agree with what your saying a lot of remakes dont work.
I also have to say I've seen the remake of Clash Of The Titans & once is enough!
A couple of remakes I did enjoy though is John Carpenter's The Thing & Tony Scott's Man On Fire.
I do like the film Space Hunter & meant no desrespect.
Myself, I can only concede on the Bourne Identity. The original was a touch flaky, IMO and the new Matt Damon one is enough of a re-imagining that it works for the genre it places itself in. But only just...
I'm just tired of Hollywood taking a great film that is fine how it is and making a crap version of it that makes it seem like it was cobbled together by a 12-year-old drama GCSE student who has only ever watched cartoons. No thought to the story or character content, just a vehicle for the latest starlets and bad CGI. I have better things to spend my money on.
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Although I grew up watching this film on video a lot, I'm all for a remake if it would introduce something interesting to make it worthy of a remake. If they come up with a great script and new ideas to make it appealing, then why not!
A good example of not what to do is the recent Total Recall remake. That was so awful and boring and a real disappointment. But I'm sure there's some out there who loved it and those who may have never gotten around to watching the original.
And with the new impending Star Wars, I hope it does happen. Anything new is a blessing!
The only thing they could introduce to make a remake more interesting would be the inclusion of all the scenes they actually cut, especially those that focus on character development. But even then, since most of those were developed by and for the original actors to portray, it'd be fairly difficult to carry it off if this was remade.
Part of what made Spacehunter so good was the now dated quality of everything, from the grainy look and the cinematrography, to the lack of CGI. Add to that the personal nuances of the actors and you've made it unique - That's why we're still talking about it today. Any attempt to remake this would result in another Clash Of The Titans - Loads of CGI, a few pretty actors and the complete absense of either the charm and indeed the very point of the original.
The only real option I see would be either a sequel or prequel.
Even then, films no longer define a generation as they once did - Gone are the days of Flashdance and Footloose, Grease, The Godfather or Gone With The Wind. Even the massive impact of flicks like Avatar and Harry Potter are comparatively short-lived. Perhaps I misremember the 80s a little in my misty-eyed retrospective nostalgia, but it seemed we had 'must-see' films like this coming out several times every year, rather than one every five or six... Gimme a year in the 80s and I can probably reel off 10 such films, whereas the 90s and 00s maybe only one or two.
Given that Spacehunter has long since passed from current culture but still stands as a perfect capture of one moment in time, I say let it remain where it is and as it is for those to whom it holds special meaning.
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This film doesn't need a remake; it's fine the way it is.
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