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Any throwback movies/ TV shows potentially good for remakes?


They did a good job with Battlestar Galactica. Ash Vs. the Evil Dead is entertaining. Haven't watched Lethal Weapon and The Exorcist, but people I know have recommended them, while both have an 8+ rating here

I would have liked a Mission: Impossible tv remake, but that's not going to happen.

The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock presents are 2 potential shows I would like to see.

Any others?

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I remember the series. My older brother used to watch it. May be an interesting choice, as the plot seems just as relevant to current times

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Mission Impossible did have a remake. Back in the late eighties - it had Peter Graves (Jim Phelps) and Phil Morris (Grant Collier) the real son of Greg Morris (Barney Collier).

The movies killed the franchise - Jim Phelps would NOT be a bad guy.

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The 80s reboot was what I grew up watching. Only caught the original much later. While I liked the reboot, and it had better production value, I thought the original was a better series. Can't really explain why

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The Twilight zone has -

The original series (1959)
The movie (1983)
The New twilight zone (1985)
The twilight zone (2002)
The twilight zone mini series (2017)

That's 3 series (2 remakes) and a yet to be made mini series.

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Thanks LoneAssassin. Forgot about the millennial reboot. Like Mission: Impossible, I grew up on the 80s version, but caught the original much later. Didn't know a mini series was in the pipeline. Looking forward to it.

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Gilligan's Island

Seth Rogen has to be the Skipper, which I guess means James Franco has to be Gilligan; although you could also go with Zach Braff or Topher Grace.

For the Howells, I would pick Will and Jada Pinkett Smith.

The Professor played by Neil Patrick Harris.

I'm not sure you would get to play Ginger and Maryanne.

The plot would be one of those episodes that would've never aired in the 60s or 70s, but you know would've happened - like how in 'A Very Brady Sequel', the episode where Greg and Marsha realized they weren't really brother and sister - where Gilligan and Skipper, foraging for food and supplies, bring back psychotropic mushrooms, leading to a drug-fueled orgy on the island: All culminating in the contractually obligatory shot of Seth Rogen's ASS. Cannibals and quicksand, and the whole thing that made the TV series, including the Harlem Globetrotters, before they realize there was a resort on the other side of the island the whole time... NO SEQUEL!

It's either brilliant or insane... the box office receipts will tell.

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The facts of life?? They could have attempted to re-pickup what happens when Eastland has to go co-ed. Jo comes out

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King of the Hill--and do it live action. Enough said.

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