remake of American werewolf in london


I just read in an interview that john landis wants to remake awwil. I had an idea that maybe for the remake, they can have a female werewolf. David and Alex have a daughter. She travels london to locate her mother. She meets some friends and she gets mauled by a werewolf. Becasue of this, her father comes back and revisits her as he warns her of the curse. She goes through the same trandsformations. Just an idea. what do you all think?

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I dont quite understand why people want a remake of the movie so much. I think half of the magic behinde this movie stems from its age. It was such a landmark movie becuase of what it was able to acheive based on the technologies available at the time as well as the whole culture and look of london back then which fitted so nicely with the whole theme of the movie. Even if they made a remake and even the effects were top notch they will never get to the level which AWIL reached.AWIL is a true classis and will always remain, and regardless of how may remakes they make they will never manage to knock it off the spot

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remake AWIL? are you kidding? please. No.... really please dont give Hollywood any ideas they dont need.

Landis is every bit the master he was in 1980... but cinema has changed (thats VERY obvious from A.W.I.Paris)

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Totally agree with The Critic.

This is one film that should never be remade as the original is such a classic. No remake could better the SFX, the script, the look and feel of places like London & the moors, & even the soundtrack. This is one film that exceeds the sum of the individual parts, which themselves amount to a great deal.

However, if you're not going to remake the original then the next best thing is to do the original proud by making a really meaningful sequel. Quite frankly AWIP was an absolute disgrace and doesn't deserve to be linked in any way to the original. So it would be awesome ( although completely unlikely) if John Landis, Rick Baker, et al got together and made a befitting sequel.

We can live in hope...

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I was sat next to John when he 'reportedly' said this. He was SEVERELY misquoted. He did NOT say he wants to remake it, but rather would not object to someone else remaking it if the price was right.

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i have often thought of doing my own serialized fan fic based on this movie as a sequel. funny how my idea for the title was Beware the Moon, which i may still use since its just fan fic. i thought of it dealing with their kid as well but having him be a guy and already carrying the werewolf gene, but i have yet to actually write any of this. ur idea sounds cool too, anything has to be better than AWIP.

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If there's any addition/related film to AWIL, they should make a prequal about the werewolf in East Proctor. I know someone else on one of the boards has suggested this before and I think it'd be great. Imagine an entire movie in the setting of the Slaughtered Lamb and the Moors... terrifying.

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Now that would be a fantastic idea! It's ending could fit perfectly with the beginning of AWIL (the image of the werewolf immediately after being shot and killed when David glances over at him just before passing out). A remake would never do justice to the original.

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eh some guy on youtube was showing around some fanmade trailer of what he hoped would be a sequel to an american werewolf. Don't really know or care if it was any real backing to it or not, but here is the trailer. Honestly, I like the song in the trailer and some of the feel but it looks like a CWish film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfQpYQIWsI

As for the remake, it also seems that they plan to remake An American Werewolf in Paris as well. I loved the original American Werewolf but am not truly against a remake of it yet. Now, it's sequel was another matter. The sequel did have a story that was decent but what ever impact it would have had was brought down by truly horrid early CGI werewolf work (we've improved slightly on digital werewolves now - see Van Helsing, the Underworld series, and Prince Caspian) and lame comedy.


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