50 Films Hollywood Is Remaking (Or Trying To) According To nextmovie.com

http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/upcoming-movie-remakes/

We know about several of these already, but I'm amazed at some of the others...

Red Dawn
The Tourist
True Grit
Footloose
The Thing
Child's Play
Straw Dogs
Fright Night
The Three Musketeers
Arthur
Battle Royale
Commando
Conan
Creature From the Black Lagoon
The Crow
Death Note
Death Wish
The Howling
Judge Dredd
Overboard
Porky's
Short Circuit
The Warriors
The Blob
All Quiet on the Western Front
Barbarella
The Black Hole
Mad Max
Westworld
The Neverending Story
Pet Sematary
Yellow Submarine
Heavy Metal
Dune
My Fair Lady
Akira
The Birds
Escape From New York
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Orphanage
Poltergeist
An American Werewolf in London
Drop Dead Fred
F/X
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Meatballs
Robocop
Romancing the Stone
Suspicion
Fletch

A Videodrome remake is still a looming threat, IIRC. Apparently it will be "updated" and have "nanotech" and be "a giant piece of shit"

And re: Mad Max, last I heard, George Miller was doing a sequel split into two parts, replacing Gibson with Tom Hardy.

oh and one last one before I shut up, the Red Dawn remake is officially dead now.

WOLVERINES :(

the Red Dawn remake is officially dead now.

Are you serious?! That's why Adrianne Palicki couldn't be on the fourth season of Friday Night Lights, and now they're not even going to finish/release it? *mad*

Yellow Submarine

?!?!?!?!?!

Heavy Metal

In fairness this could be awesome

The Warriors

Didn't this already happen, or are they remaking the remake?

they already did a new version Heavy Metal! (it was terrible)

the Yellow Submarine thing really makes no sense. I can't see Yoko signing off on that tbh

There was a remake of The Warriors?

They remade Dune for tv. I didn't watch, but it was apparently more faithful to the source. So I guess they've got to retell the story in theaters now.

Is "man, they're really going too far with the film remakes these days" one for the "opinions that make you leave the conversation" / "not-jokes that everyone says like they're the first to say" thread? I imagine it is. But, man, they're really going too far with the film remakes these days, imo, challops, etc.

Ugh, don't you touch Poltergeist Vadim Perelman!

I don't care about most of these tbh - go ahead remake whatever you want, I'm sure it will suck, but as long as the originals are still available my reaction is mostly "eh, whatever"

A lot of remakes have been pretty good lately, tbh. I guess I shouldn't be worried. (The crew, otoh, will be dealing with a curse.)

Is a remake of "The Thing" different from the currently-shooting prequel to "The Thing?" (Even though it is also simply called "The Thing." I know, right?)

http://io9.com/5654684/first-inside-look-at-the-thing-prequel-shows-why-it-may-be-awesome-after-all

No, that's what they're talking about here.

‘Robocop’

Attached: Darren Aronofsky (director)

ok, got my attention there

haha waht

Oh, Rose McGowan was apparently attached to the Barbarella remake at one point, but no longer is. That would've been kind of perfect. Now I'm trying to think of a substitute that would be as good.

A lot of remakes have been pretty good lately

I'd ask which, but I suspect they're horror remakes I haven't seen.

Oh, Rose McGowan was apparently attached to the Barbarella remake at one point, but no longer is. That would've been kind of perfect. Now I'm trying to think of a substitute that would be as good

I'd suggest ScarJo but I don't think she's quite self-aware enough.

McGowan was 'attached' to all of the remakes R. Rodriguez was gonna do (save the Predator one).

Xposts- the Yellow Submarine remake is Zemeckis, starring the same horrifying digital corpses as Polar Express. Be afraid.

The Warriors didn't get a remake yet AFAIK- just an ok video game and pointless director's cut that added a title card explicitly spelling out the parallel with the story of king...something, and some awful-looking "comic" style scene transitions.

the Yellow Submarine remake is Zemeckis, starring the same horrifying digital corpses as Polar Express. Be afraid.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

aronofsky's name was attached 2 robocop like 5 yrs ago, right

Yeah, I'd definitely heard that before.

yeah, some of these have been talked about for years now, most of them will probably never happen I would guess

I'd suggest ScarJo but I don't think she's quite self-aware enough.

oh lol man that would be perfect

During the whole Donald Glover = Spider-Man thing over the summer, someone suggested he should be considered for the long-in-limbo Fletch remake. I could totally get behind that.

Problem is, no one anywhere with money wants to sink anymore into that Fletch remake that's never going to happen.

Donald Glover from Community as Spiderman? THAT WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER.

There was a whole campaign for it on twitter and Facebook (not as big as Betty White's SNL thing, not by a long shot), but it branched out into several thinkpieces on blogs and sites about "Why CAN'T we have a black Spider-Man?" and the like. It was fun while it lasted.

They referenced it all a couple times in the S2 premiere.

Least watchable of these would be The Crow imo.

Didn't Nick Cave do a spec script for a Crow remake? I know he did a Gladiator 2 that was supposed tp be utterly batshit.

the Aronofsky/Robocop thing has been dead for a couple of years, along with a few others on this list.

yup

whereas im p sure 'red dawn' is in the can, but there's some (mgm-related?) problem that's stopping its release

but there's some (mgm-related?) (Chinese?) problem that's stopping its release

straw dogs starring michael cera

would be awesome

Here I will sheepishly admit to never having seen the original. Gotta get on that.

yes. yes you do. one of Peckinpah's best

whereas im p sure 'red dawn' is in the can, but there's some (mgm-related?) problem that's stopping its release

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they can't handle the truth!!

Last reports indicate the new Heavy Metal is gonna be CG and 3D (shocker) and David Fincher is involved. James Cameron and Zack Snyder also interested in directing segments. Gore Vrabinski and Guillermo Del Toro other possibilities.

This is months old news, so who knows what's happening with it now. Could be fun though.

Last reports indicate the new Heavy Metal is gonna be CG and 3D (shocker) and David Fincher is involved. James Cameron and Zack Snyder also interested in directing segments. Gore Vrabinski and Guillermo Del Toro other possibilities.

You sure this isn't a giant flytrap designed to catch Comic-Con attendees and isolate them from the general population?

the biggest question for me for any Heavy Metal remake is what music is going to be included

Linkin Park, dontchaknow?

(Actually, I could see Air and Phoenix going French pop/prog all over it.)

Queens of the Stone Age would be good

I'd sign on for that, too.

Will.i.Am

Sammy Hagar would need some kind of involvement just on principle.