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The upscale did Lisa a little dirty

I want them to make good discworld movies.

That's Dune for you.

Manos The Hands of Fate. If somebody can take that and turn it into a passable movie, they deserve the world.

A Last Starfighter remake would rip if it was about how the erliens found a Fortnight kid and had ‘em tear up the intergalactic construction/dance/murder competition (wars are settled this way in space)

I want something completely different... Pick up rejected movie ideas from the 1920s and 1930s and make them EXACTLY like they would have done back then.

They knew how to do this in the 80s. Little Shop of Horrors, The Fly, and The Thing for example. All remakes that far surpassed the cheesy originals.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I would love to see a modern version and one that's got great effects.

Practice what you preach, OP

Honestly anyone who figures out how to market that will be rich beyond their wildest dreams.

I wanna be a producerrrr….

The best example is The Thing. The original film in the 1950s was awkward af. But the 1980s remake by John Carpenter was chef's kiss. Then they made a remake of a remake and it was meh.

Or maybe they could come up with an original idea

Crazy talk I know

Alien is an interesting case study.

Dan O'Bannon wrote the screenplay for the movie Dark Star. It was not a great movie. He took his core concept, wrote a new version with less comedy and more horror and that became Alien.

I would be much happier if they threw out the fucking cat book.

Every movie now is predictable because they all follow the exact same structure. It annoys me when I can predict what the next scene is going to be. Genuine surprise is rare.

For anyone who doesn't know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Cat!:_The_Last_Book_on_Screenwriting_You'll_Ever_Need

It’s Dune. Great book but original movie needed improvement

On a vaguely related note, why aren't we making more movies that take a Shakespeare plot and just stuff it in a different setting without trying to hide it? Like 10 Things I Hate about you was Taming of the Shrew.

Tell me you wouldn't watch Mechbeth.

Fuck that, just make more theaters and let drama kids re-enact them with their own creative vision

How many more versions of Tron do we need?

This only works on like mid movies, maybe. You can't do it with a film like Plan 9 from Outer Space or The Room because the jank is part of the appeal. But maybe an actually good version of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow? Sucker Punch, but with a better director?

I think the answer to the question she asks is that an unholy alliance of focus groups, market analysts, and accountants have calculated that the Path to Most Money (tm) goes over in the opposite direction, away from the fun stuff.

I'm sure there's usually good low budget feature-length stuff out there being made, but in today's media landscape it's up to the viewer to find interesting and unique content. It isn't going to be blasted into the faces of all the passive viewers like Avengers 37 will be.

Disney's been trying. 'Once More With Feeling' is a whole podcast about the reboots. Did you know Disney remade Pete's Dragon and The Shaggy Dog? I didn't.

Ocean’s 11 is usually the example of this concept done right. The original was pretty bad.

But but but that’s not safe.

Instead of the corporatization of storytelling, we should be letting artists tell the stories they want to tell. We should engage with our media more critically and stop chasing nostalgia.

Better yet, why not create something original?

depends how recent the movie/show is. but currently reboots of old movies are often terrible compared to the original.

Nice idea, but you'd never get funding. So lean into it. Instead of remaking flops, demake them. Redo Battlefield Earth or Waterworld on a half million dollar budget. As the world watches your film with effects that would make Sharknado blush they will finally ask "what is art?"

Am i having deja vu? I think I've seen not only this post but also a lot of the comments