The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread

[Owain Taggart]

The characters going to the tomb and finding Jesus not there, will be the biggest surprise in cinematic history since the end of Titanic.

Besides which, the best thing to do with a true Titanic sequel would be to not make it about the Titanic at all, but rather one of its sister ships, such as the Britannic, which had improved design features, the ship builders having learned from the Titanic, and had been requisitioned as a hospital ship during WW1 and unfortunately sunk as well after hitting a German naval mine in the Agean Sea. There was a low budget TV movie made, but something higher budget would be stellar.

Oh dear me, I got off on a tangent and gave James Cameron an idea. My bad...

"Jesus Christ! Where did the body go"

Ok, I kind of love that part! She herself should know not to use his name in vain...

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

I doubt it will be good. It will likely be to self aware. What made the first movie so good is it's weirdly progressive in ways I don't think it knew it was being progressive and of course it is filled with lots of 80's cheese that you just can't duplicate.

Was it good the first time?

 

[Aragorn]

Besides which, the best thing to do with a true Titanic sequel would be to not make it about the Titanic at all, but rather one of its sister ships, such as the Britannic, which had improved design features, the ship builders having learned from the Titanic, and had been requisitioned as a hospital ship during WW1 and unfortunately sunk as well after hitting a German naval mine in the Agean Sea. There was a low budget TV movie made, but something higher budget would be stellar.

Our friends at The Asylum made a movie about a ship called Titanic II, which allowed them to call the movie Titanic II. I can understand grandma picking up a copy of Atlantic Rim or Transmorphers thinking that's what her grandchild was talking about, but at what point are you just a complete moron for thinking a cheap knockoff is the actual thing?

 

[Set Harth]

atlantic rim lol

"I said Pacific, grandma! PACIFIC!!! Are you stupid or something?"

 

[Owain Taggart]

Our friends at The Asylum made a movie about a ship called Titanic II, which allowed them to call the movie Titanic II. I can understand grandma picking up a copy of Atlantic Rim or Transmorphers thinking that's what her grandchild was talking about, but at what point are you just a complete moron for thinking a cheap knockoff is the actual thing?

I vaguely remember hearing about that, but not the specific details about how they managed to get around it. I imagine it must be quite disappointing for Titanic fans. But then I think most would know better.

 

[Judge Death]

Besides which, the best thing to do with a true Titanic sequel would be to not make it about the Titanic at all, but rather one of its sister ships, such as the Britannic, which had improved design features, the ship builders having learned from the Titanic, and had been requisitioned as a hospital ship during WW1 and unfortunately sunk as well after hitting a German naval mine in the Agean Sea. There was a low budget TV movie made, but something higher budget would be stellar.

Oh dear me, I got off on a tangent and gave James Cameron an idea. My bad...



Ok, I kind of love that part! She herself should know not to use his name in vain...

Violet Jessop survived both the Titanic and Britannic sinkings she was also aboard The Olympic when it had a collision as well!

 

[Aragorn]

R. L. Stine (children's horror author) has a new Tubi movie based on his work called Pumpkinhead. Hope parents don't click on Lance Henriksen's '80s movie Pumpkinhead by mistake.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Another American remake of a British show just got a bit meta

‘Doc Martin’s Martin Clunes Joins Fox’s U.S. Remake ‘Best Medicine’

Martin Clunes, who played Doc Martin for 10 seasons across 18 years for British broadcaster ITV, is joining the U.S. remake of the drama.

deadline.com

 

[Zombie Cheerleader]

Violet Jessop survived both the Titanic and Britannic sinkings she was also aboard The Olympic when it had a collision as well!

So, its her fault.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

The characters going to the tomb and finding Jesus not there, will be the biggest surprise in cinematic history since the end of Titanic.

What He did while visiting Hell? The trouble is, it'll look like every other movie (Spawn, etc.) with scenes down there.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

So, its her fault.

The villagers cry "She's a witch!"

 

[tharpdevenport]

Titanic meets A.I.:

Titanic Jack, A.I.


So, in the future the aliens from A.I. are plumbing the depths of the ocean and they find Jack's frozen corpse that some how get wedged in some rocks before it got all the way down and crushed, and not eaten by anything, they revive it, combine him with A.I. -- only he alone can fix the problem the aliens are having.

 

[oktay]

‘FEAR FACTOR’ returns in January 2026 on FOX, now hosted by Johnny Knoxville.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Violet Jessop survived both the Titanic and Britannic sinkings she was also aboard The Olympic when it had a collision as well!

Huh, I had no idea. Maybe she cursed the ships... But talk about a feat of being on all 3. Do you know if they modeled Rose on her?

Another American remake of a British show just got a bit meta

‘Doc Martin’s Martin Clunes Joins Fox’s U.S. Remake ‘Best Medicine’

Martin Clunes, who played Doc Martin for 10 seasons across 18 years for British broadcaster ITV, is joining the U.S. remake of the drama.

deadline.com

Now that is indeed quite meta. I love the British show, and if I remember correctly, it is itself a spinoff from the popular movie Saving Grace, and started off as TV movies with a slightly different version of the character. There's quite an interconnected universe to it.

 

[Judge Death]

So, its her fault.

Definitely feels like she was the Jessica Fletcher of the White Star Line!

Britannic's sinking was much different to Titanic's though, fatalities were limited. It had more lifeboats but also the water was a lot warmer as it sank in the Aegean sea!

Of course if one wanted a Titanic reboot one could always resurrect the ridiculous conspiracy theory that Titanic was actually Olympic and the whole sinking was an insurance job, Olympic being badly damaged after her own collision so rather than pay for expensive repairs the White Star Line swapped the livery over and intentionally got Capt Smith to head into dangerous iceberg infected water at speed!

Of course one could argue the most ridiculous Titanic film has already been made...



In fairness to Cussler and the producers at the time Titanic hadn't been found so no one knew for sure it was in two pieces (though I'm not sure it makes any sense even if it was on one piece) even though a lot of evidence suggested it began to break in half before it went under.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

a lot of evidence suggested it began to break in half before it went under.

IIRC, there were conflicting eye witness reports among the survivors, with some claiming to have seen it snap in half and others claiming it submerged whole.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Britannic's sinking was much different to Titanic's though, fatalities were limited. It had more lifeboats but also the water was a lot warmer as it sank in the Aegean sea!

Which precisely is why it would make for a good followup movie with the right budget. Just enough that's familiar from Titanic, but with a different setting of WW1 and a different ship usage with it being a hospital ship and a different scenario for the sinking. And it apparently sank quicker than the Titanic too.

 

[Aragorn]

TV Line was sold, so Michael Ausiello is gone and the website was completely changed. A reset or reimagining, if you will.

 

[Etbj SMY]

As the creator of this infinite thread which will no doubt outlive us all, I only wish it could die so we or others could reboot it.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

IIRC, there were conflicting eye witness reports among the survivors, with some claiming to have seen it snap in half and others claiming it submerged whole.

I don't have the book handy, but, in my Reader's Digest book on Great Disasters, in the chapter on Titanic, there are four sketches from eyewitnesses to the sinking reproduced, and, I'm fairly certain, one of the four shows the Titanic breaking in half before it slips under the water.