The new "Total Recall" was the worst in that regard. The only thing it changed was the setting and heavily sanitizing the fight scenes, due to the PG-13 rating.
The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread
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I just realized, Day of the Triffids has been remade three times. There was a theatrical release plus two BBC miniseries.
Andromda Strain got a miniseries re-make that was pretty poor and the less said about the mini-series remake of the The Prisoner the better and then we had a mini-series remake of a mini-series with the stand <shudder>
so I guess the trick with a remake is not to go scene for scene for but at the same time don't change the crux of the story too much or add padding.
They haven't decided where to release the film yet.
Wait until you subscribe to D+ Plus to watch them in the Holodeck.
First time I really noticed studios milking the audience was when Paramount released the complete movie Star Trek DVD box set. Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a special edition while the rest were standard edition. Then every time another movie got the special edition treatment, there was a whole new box set! The first few box sets were released before Nemesis came out.
How many Trekkies do you think own every single version of this box set?
I own the bottom one. Got it cheap at Half Price Books. Probably saved a ton of money by not purchasing the titles individually.
I think all versions of The 39 Steps vary quite a bit. The '78 version may be the most faithful to the book but even this veers off wildly (with Hannay hanging off the hands of Big Ben!*)
I think all versions of A Star is Born follow a similar storyline, only in the original they're actors whereas in every other version the male and female leads are singers.
(* I know Big Ben isn't the clock/tower but only the bell but it's what most people think of as the clock/tower!)
Yeah it was dull film. They made out they were going to be more faithful to the book but really they were just riffing on the film (badly) I always remember Len Wiseman complaining that he'd wanted to make a wholly original sci-fi film but had to make the remake instead, but the absolute lack of any originality in TR2012 makes me wonder how bad such a film might have been!)
The original film is nothing like the book, just a generic 50s/60s monster movie. The first mini series in the 80s is the best of the three adaptations by far.
A little side step, I wish Elvis Presley took the role as John Norman Howard.
‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Casts Harry, Ron and Hermione
The HBO 'Harry Potter' series has cast its Harry, Ron and Hermione.
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Yep, the dreaded vault. Disney in particular would bring the movies back out and claim them as new remastered versions.
Yeah, same general storyline, but at least everything else has been reinvented with a whole new set of songs for each different era, evoking completely different feels. Plus I think the Judy Garland version has never really been released as complete. The version I've seen had many scenes that had to be reconstructed with stills as some scenes were lost.
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The Accountant 2, which was released in theaters on April 25th by Amazon, is still not known when it will be available on VOD, iTunes and Amazon. Normally, Amazon movies would come to VOD 30 days after they were released in theaters. So they may have extended the period to 45 or 60 days after Cinema Con.
Breaking Baz: As ‘Mamma Mia!’ Returns To Broadway, Sabrina Carpenter Eyed For Third Movie & TV Version Might Be Coming, Producer Judy Craymer Reveals
Mamma Mia Returns To Broadway, There’s Talk Of Sabrina Carpenter In Third Movie & Mamma Mia On TV
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