What film WOULD you LOVE to see a remake/reboot of?

[Flagius]

Jurassic Park. Just take out the anti-science bullshit and add more sequences from the book and you have a fucking classic on your hands.

 

[timelord1010]

How about a remake of the Land of the Lost? People need to see how it really should have been done. Yes, the original TV show had poor FX and weak acting but the stories were good and it was a serious show with great ideas years before they showed up on Lost. How many kids shows do you know of that talk about a main character being killed or two children losing their father and being left alone in a world with dinosaurs and aliens (until the Uncle showed up)?

I also vote for a remake of Space 1999. How about Space 2099?

 

[RAMA]

This Island Earth: ONLY based on the original novel/novella.

Forbidden Planet: ONLY if the use Syd Mead's designs

Logan's Run: I hope its not stupid

Robot Jox: Well it would cost about $150 million today instead of $12.95 and its a better story than Transformers.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Sphere.

The Barry Levinson movie had a good cast (Dustin Hoffman was perfect as Norman) and Elliot Goldenthal was wonderfully haunting, but the adaption was utter rubbish. Above all, they cut out my single favorite moment from the novel: Norman's encounter inside the Sphere.

 

[milo bloom]

The Black Hole, no question about it. In fact, I'd love to write it.

I've longed for a more serious take on this material for years.

Also have to second the Star Wars films (all six, I like the ones we have, but I'd love to see them done cohesively as one series).

 

[Cky]

Nice post .
a re-make of the TOS series to fit in to the new Enterprise.

Are you proposing to remake the TOS series using the same scripts [i.e. no W.G.A. writer's changes] and just with new directors, actors, sets?
Please specify.

I'm only asking Cky since this thread is in the Science Fiction & Fantasy forum and not Future of Trek forum (so please no one else jump in on this one.)
Personally I disagree but would just like to see what vision Cky was thinking of.

Well jefferiestubes8, I only mentioned it as when I created the thread I wanted to see what films people wanted to see re-made or re-booted, and couldn't edit the title after I realised I wanted to add in TV series to it as well. As almost nobody has said anything about Star Trek, there isn't any point of putting it in the Future of Trek forum.

My "vision" of a new TOS series Trek would infact to be a re-imaging of the Original Series, some of the stories could be re-told from a fresh point of view with the new cast, and how the alternate timeline has effected these stories. Of course new, fresh ideas can be introduced as well, as some of the events in TOS probably cannot happen at all.

If I'm honest, I'd want to see a series set between the first and second film, based around a ship that is not the Enterprise. So an entirely different crew, but with some of the cast of the films making cameo roles. Seeing how the Federation is going after the events of the first film. Then when the second film comes about, the TV series could be a direct lead to the the movie.

 

[Aragorn]

Is it too soon to reboot Transformers? Though when this current movie makes a zillion dollars, there won't be any reason good enough for a reboot.

 

[Cky]

A little too soon, yeah. By that statement you could very well say "remake Twilight and New Moon?"

 

[Anwar]

Except Transformers is a decent concept that can be done well, the Twilight stories are just fundamentally bad no matter how many times they're done.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The Black Hole, no question about it. In fact, I'd love to write it.

I've longed for a more serious take on this material for years.

If I knew where to pitch it to, I'd write it as a spec right now.

 

[QuasarVM]

Logan's Run.

 

[Barbados Slim]

I always thought a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty would be a great Jim Carrey movie, but it looks like it's going to Mike Myers

Along those lines I think a live-action version of Looney Tunes' Ralph Phillips would make a wonderful PG fantasy film for kids.

I like the idea of a Black Hole remake. I think a Buck Rogers update is long overdue.

 

[Ptrope]

• The Stepford Wives - make it eerie, like the novel, not a comedy like the remake
• Metropolis - keep it epic, keep it allegorical, and put in more of the novel
• Colossus - The Forbin Project - not that I think it needs to be remade, but it would be interesting to see what the addition of the Internet and omnipresent cellphones and television networks would add to Colossus's ability to reach and control the world's digital network.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

A movie I think that could be remade is John Wayne's Hellfighters. In stead of it taking place in Texas, have it take place during the Iraq war and the fire fighters battling to put out the fires. Not sure who to cast, but I would love to see an update of this movie.