Please don't remake my favorite movie!
Hollywood has been so gung-ho on remakes for so long now that it seems all but inevitable that sooner or later they'll get around to redoing everything.
I post this poll with a little trepidation, fearing that some producer could look at the result as an indication of what movie is popular enough to be worth remaking, even if it offends the true fans. Still, here's a list of ten films that, to the best of my knowledge, no one is currently planning to re-do. Just to keep it interesting, I've left off films that are too recent to worry about, and movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Blade Runner that I just can't imagine anyone would ever be stupid enough to tackle.
I voted for Zardoz, because Sean Connery just would not look nearly so handsome in a loincloth and bandoliers, now.
Just to disagree thoroughly with the poll results so far: to my mind, Alien will never need remaking. The effects haven't aged at all, even to my 80's child technology-obsessed eyes, and more importantly than that the atmosphere has never aged. It still puts the willies up me every time.
I've always thought that when my brilliant cross-media talents are noticed and I'm tapped for the film project of my choice, I'll remake Highlander. The concept and potential are fantastic in more ways than one, taking the first film alone, but the effects (unlike Alien of three years previous) have aged terribly and the acting is nothing less than atrocious. Done properly - with the nationalities aligned correctly - my envisioned Highlander Remake would be a true epic of emotion and thousand-year politics, of choices made and friendships forged against the knowledge of a betrayal that may one day become necessary. My only quandary is just how much Queen I should keep in after Who Wants To Live Forever.
Matt Dovey, the poll question is "Which sci-fi movie would you most *hate* to see remade?," so you're totally in agreement with everyone so far!
Metropolis is a product of its time and it wouldn't survive a remake. It would really suffer as a "re-imagining".
You make a fair point there, rl. I'm good at reading what I want to read. It's why I enjoy the Internet so much, it always seems to agree with me...
Now I'm looking forward to seeing remakes of Silent Running and A Clockwork Orange. Start casting!
Alien, first of all, is inevitable for a crappy remake.
Clockwork, I would imagine would be done in a much toned-down version by Tim Burton. *eyeroll*
Close Encounters wouldn't be too bad if done properly.
The Day of the Triffids, I believe has already been remade, but even so it's not exactly one of the sacred stories of the past century, neither is Forbidden Planet, heck they might make decent remakes.
Silent Running, if done properly might be okay.
Slaughterhouse-Five was originally a book, so based on usualy Hollywood logic anyone can cook up a script, teleplay, or otherwise based on the work.
Soylent Green in it's original form failed to impress, and may do good as aremake.
Zardoz, I honestly don't think we have to worry about this one being redone anytime in the near future
Metropolis is the one I really worry about, I can just count the days until some naive action-director gets his hands on this one.
Battlefield Earth...They'd just cast Cruise this time
Clockwork Orange should never have been made the first time. What a piece of dreck!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind ,to even begin to thing of an attempt would be unthinkable. You can not improve on perfection. Leave well enough alone.......