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Should It Be Remade?

posted 9 years ago by DYouKnowWhatIMean
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It's a good film, but it hasn't aged very well and the acting was never very good aside from the two leads, Connery and Quaid.
Even David Thewlis gave a hit and miss performance here.

A remake could add to the mythology of the dragons, could go a little more in depth into Avalon and the legacy of King Arthur, not to mention the graphical improvements we have today would add a lot. This movie has also gathered a large following over the years, many refer to it as a classic, so there would definitely be an audience. As far as the basic story goes, it could stay the same with minor changes, it's pretty good how it is.

Not sure who the leads would be...maybe Connery could return...it's just voice acting after all.

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[–] ladisneyprincesse 9 years ago

I would like a prequel about Draco and maybe some friends and enemies he had before meeting Bowen! If this features female dragons, I would like to see two or three with different personalities: One could be an intense, honorable and tough warrior, the other equally strong but sensitive and frail in nature and the other very cruel who believes she is doing the right thing! Also I'm interested to see how a dragon's half heart affects a human heroine(inspired on action female characters like Selene, Ripley, Alice, Katniss etc.. but in medieval times)having her deal with this strength, partial immortality and powers until she decides to confront the dragon(which would be Draco's mentor)who saved her after tragedy struck both of them!

[–] DYouKnowWhatIMean 9 years ago

Some good ideas there. A prequel would be great! Could be set an age or so before Bowen, maybe during the later days of King Arthur or something? Female lead sounds like a good idea.

However, it would look very strange going from the prequel to the original. If they do a prequel after all these years, they might as well continue with a remake of the original and then maybe a sequel to the remake.

As long as it's nothing like the sequel to this film, I'm game. That is a film I'd really like to unwatch.

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[–] ladisneyprincesse 9 years ago

Could be the later days of Arthur as there will be some influences on how the triumph and tragedy of the characters will surround them. My idea on the female lead starting her story would be how she is mortally wounded by cruel men in a castle siege(inspired by a real life Viking attack) and then one dragon we know finds her and takes her to his mentor to save her life while she is questioned on how worthy she is! After the ritual, the mentor decides to erase all memories of her barbaric past in fear she would know of her power and use it for evil!

That's what has been troubling me when thinking about the third, tragic and final prequel/female lead vehicle! I thought of adding a very young Bowen in another point of view subplot while giving the half heart linked heroine a rest. He was going to face a Leviathan summoned by a Sea Queen(half mermaid who shapeshifts into a sea dragon)and ultimately escapes alive.

Aislinn debuted in my second prequel idea shown as a teenage girl. She would face the dreaded Razorthorn(green spiked dragon from the movie's toyline)and his raptor-sized minion dragons(who are as psychotic as The Lion King's hyenas)and be saved by Draco and another friend tagged along with him, then join the dragon linked female lead and more allies to battle this enemy. And in the final fight in a mountain lair after saving Aislinn again(this time from falling off her dangling chains), freeing captured good dragons, female lead's secret being discovered when the dragon who shared her heart with her is wounded by Razorthorn's spikes thus almost killing them both and setting off Draco's fury to fight him. Ultimately it would be Freyne(Aislinn's fiancée)who'll kill Razorthorn in betrayal.

[–] bottleshock34 9 years ago

There is a prequel dragonheart 3 straight to DVD

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[–] nenad-jones 9 years ago

I hope not, it's one of those movies from my childhood that I don't want to see ruined.

If the movie was to be remade in this day and age, Sean Connery most likely wouldn't provide the voice for the dragon, the actors would probably be sub-par and oh, Draco would most likely end up as a ''wyvern'' type dragon, since the movies today consider such anatomy as ''realistic''.
Also the music would never hit the spot so well, some things are best left unspoiled.

[–] ladisneyprincesse 9 years ago

Draco was almost a wyvern when Jim Henson built the original puppet before being redesigned! Don't you worry cause most wyvern designs always go for the more evil dragons! Daenerys' dragons were much like animals so they decided with the wyvern look!

[–] nenad-jones 9 years ago

I'm not exactly against the design itself ( My favorite dragon design in movies is actually those dragons from Reign of fire, even though the movie sucked balls), but what's the last dragon-related movie where the dragon looked like a classic 4-legged dragon? This new design is getting old, that's all

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[–] aleaa-96413 8 years ago

I am petitioning for a remake of DragonHeart based on the novelization. It was written by Charles Edward Pogue based on his own screenplay, and from reading it myself, I can say it is truly amazing, what the film should have been. It fleshes out the characters, their motivations, the world they inhabit and there is more direct interaction with Draco. In the book, he is described as having an iridescent hide and eyes with a nictitating membrane. Of course, given how CGI technology was just getting started back then, these elements couldn't be included in the film. The book also fills in the film's plot holes like what happened to Bowen's trophy shield and how he came to possess the headband that once belonged to Kara's father.

I've reached out to Patrick Read Johnson on Twitter and he's all in for a remake, and supports the petition. Maybe Liam Neeson will be game for playing Bowen as he was originally supposed to. Given his action star status these days, I don't think it will be much trouble for him. If done properly, the remake could be the mature and transcendent film that the original was intended to be. Twitter hashtag: #RemakeDragonHeart. Here's the petition link: http://goo.gl/JWyxXD

[–] ladisneyprincesse 8 years ago

I would also want to petition for a musical version of the film with the book's elements. No pop but orchestral along the veins of Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken and Mitch Leigh!

[–] aleaa-96413 8 years ago

Draco is one of my favorite dragons, and by the way he's described in the book, Draco could look even more amazing with today's technology. If the movie is remade more like the book, it can be an exciting epic like the Lord of the Rings films. For an in-depth explanation why this remake should happen, check out my post on Moviepilot.com: http://moviepilot.com/posts/3698187

[–] ladisneyprincesse 8 years ago

That interview is truly amazing and seeing a very young Clive Owen in those screen tests as Bowen were a treat!

[–] aleaa-96413 8 years ago

Yeah, and seeing that test footage DragonHeart in its earliest stages was really cool too.

[–] ladisneyprincesse 8 years ago

So my friend Strecno was right about Patrick recalling Universal was serious in trying to cast Whoopi Goldberg as the dragon! I ended up laughing my butt off and saying to my friend that she would have been better as a momma dragon if the movie had included a few more!

[–] Strecno 8 years ago

Yeah, momma dragon indeed XD for me she was perfect as Shenzi, but I personally think that she wouldn’t fit in DH very well. …and as Draco? That was the stupidest thing I ever heard! *laugh* I have some more stuff with Henson Draco and clive (B)owen XD that I’ll probably show on my website…
…a musical would maybe interesting but a remake? Absolutely not! (but I won’t give my opinion about this petition here…I already did on my valor-virtue-truth blog a while ago ^^)

[–] ladisneyprincesse 8 years ago

Good cause we're already used to what that movie has done! Now that Ever After, Tuck Everlasting and Finding Neverland have been adapted for a musical and having seen Carollee Carmello play a character originally played by Julie Christie and making her sing, that musical version thought rung through my head again!(I even told someone that whoever sings as Draco must be a classical baritone!) After this test footage, I began rereading the novelization and tried imagining how Universal could have gotten away with that silly casting idea against the writer's wishes and it was nightmarish in my head. It could have turned more into "Theodore Rex" and "A Knight in Camelot"(both that starred Goldberg)!

[–] Rena_Mahone 8 years ago

Hell no.

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