A Remake I Would Support

Mar 29, 2006 by  

Plan 9 From Outer SpacePlan 9 From Outer Space just entered the public domain, and being the little Sci-Fi buff, I thought I should introduce my daughter to this infamous film. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s widely known as the worst film ever made. :-)

It was written, produced and directed by Ed Wood (go rent the film of the same name by Tim Burton for some background).

In any case, if ever there was a film that was ripe for a remake, and one of the very few projects I would get behind in this regard, this would be it. But no, the studios are too busy doing remakes of lame 80′s TV shows instead.

The cool thing about a remake of “Plan 9″ is that it could go in either of two directions: It could be made on a shoestring, with the attempt to recapture the unintentionally funny spirit of the original, or the basic story could be turned into a real horror/sci-fi film. I mean it’s got the elements, right? Re-animated corpses, aliens, spaceships…

Come on folks, somebody throw a script together and get busy!

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  1. Oh… that would be sweet! Spielberg should have done that instead of the underwhelming War of the Worlds. :confused:

    Brian

  2. That’s a great idea for a remake, and it could go either way, but I would much rather it be bad. I have seen both Ed Wood (awesome movie) and the origional plan 9, and I can’t imagine it being done well. I have seen weird things before, but an Ed Wood script with major hollywood treatment is the tops.

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