Comments on: The Top 5 Rules For Movie Remakes

By: Joe Carnahan Rumored for Death Wish Reboot

Joe Carnahan Rumored for Death Wish Reboot — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:19:05 +0000

[...] Wish’?Death Wish does qualify as “fair game” for a remake/reboot, going by our Top 5 Remake Rules list. More so, it features what reads a a pretty generic plot setup for a revenge thriller – [...]

By: Farradin

Farradin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:08:26 +0000

The most important rule the zeroeth rule if you will.

If it was written a few years ago and nobody saw it to have an opinion but now it’s more relevant than ever (see what I did there).

By: Frost

Frost — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:12:50 +0000

Speaking of Batman Begins, where does that movie go in your criteria for reboots, because I think that one fits in with all four reasons you listed.

By: Frost

Frost — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:09:36 +0000

The remake of 12 Angry Men is the exact same as the original except that its in color, it’s set in the 90′s and some of the jurors are black. Apart from those things it’s the same thing scene for scene.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:33:45 +0000

You are correct. In fact, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was closer to the book than 1970′s Willy Wonka but imo, Gene Wilder’s Wonka is 100 times more memorable.

By: Pedram

Pedram — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:51:45 +0000

I have to say I liked the Fright Night remake a lot better than the original. I watched the original right before the remake just for reference, and I’m kind of glad I did because I appreciated the references in the remake, and also the fact that they didn’t just rehash the same story but changed it just enough so that you didn’t feel like you already saw the movie and knew exactly what was going to happen.

By: Pedram

Pedram — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:44:16 +0000

I guess you got your wish

By: Bruce Campbell approuve Evil Dead Remake | Coin de Cinéma

Bruce Campbell approuve Evil Dead Remake | Coin de Cinéma — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:09:59 +0000

[...] honcho du écran Rant que holtreman Vic répondit en 2007, il y a cinq règles pour des fabrications de film. Numéro quatre sur cette liste est, « le remake en fait apporte quelque chose de nouveau tout en [...]

By: Bleaz

Bleaz — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:16:58 +0000

Sadly they did do a remake of Casablanca, a sci-fi one. It was Barb Wire!

By: Thommck

Thommck — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:05:12 +0000

I really don’t get why some people get so hung up about remakes.
It’s something the theatre industry has always done. Each time a play is put on by a different company it could be called a reboot.
The same goes for story telling in general. Before stories were written down in books they would spread through word of mouth. This left each storyteller to reboot the original source material as he saw fit.

The source material (or classic/untouchable version)can only benefit from the increased exposure when it gets re-made. For example, I didn’t hear about Let the Right One In until the remake was announced. I then ended up seeing the original and haven’t bothered with the US version.

I won’t even go into whether you could class a novel to screenplay as a reboot …

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:47:54 +0000

They should remake Casablanca and do it ‘urban’. Ghetto baby!

By: Bruce Campbell Endorses ‘Evil Dead’ Remake | 0code.net - Sharing Everything

Bruce Campbell Endorses ‘Evil Dead’ Remake | 0code.net - Sharing Everything — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:15:50 +0000

[...] Vic Holtreman wrote behind in 2007, there are five manners for film remakes. Number 4 on that list is, “the [...]

By: Harryflo

Harryflo — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:41:47 +0000

I think they should make a remake of “LOGAN’S RUN” it would fit in with the times, with over population, low resources, and global warming destroying our environment you couldn’t make a better remake than this one.

By: geco11

geco11 — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:25:53 +0000

The Green Hornet was in no way a quality movie. It wasn’t funny, nor did it have any excitement. I think this movie falls into the “Cash Grab” category.

By: pawn65

pawn65 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:19:06 +0000

Harry Hamlin, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Burgess Meredith

By: pawn65

pawn65 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:12:29 +0000

Remaking Casablanca or Its a Wonderful Life would be a sin against humanity!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:08:04 +0000

I think You can remake a movie if you do it from a different angle. For example, The Green Hornet. While this was a movie based off a tv show, I think it worked because instead of going with the cops and robbers action theme and trying to be serious, they turned it into a comedy, without actually spoofing or defaming the original. I would personally be very interested in seeing a Pokemon movie done Gladiator style, with magical creature body parts flying left and right, as opposed to simply becoming squiggly eyed and falling over.

By: eric

eric — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:05:27 +0000

Im with you, yet I would love to see a re-remake of “The Thing”. The original scared the s#*t out of my dad when he was a kid, the remake scared the s@%t out of me when I was a kid and I think we are ready for a new one.John Carpender is still alive and kickn’.

By: Erica

Erica — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 06:32:59 +0000

I agree with some and disagree with others…..I think it all depends. And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not a re-make of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory…..it is a different adaptation of the book by Roald Dahl.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 05:20:02 +0000

They’re not waiting 20 years again. After TDKR warner bros. is going to wait maybe 2-3 years and then start development on a batman reboot