Ugh I agree!
Fed up with Hollywood/filmmakers being so afraid to take a chance on new writers, new scripts, new ideas.
And for the love of god they need to
LEAVE BELOVED CLASSICS ALONE!
Who on Earth has the arrogance to think they can do better than Hitchcock?!
And surely it makes little business sense seeing as the majority of us familiar with the originals WON'T bother with the remakes?!
That must dent profits!
Is nobody writing new material or are the producers just playing it safe?
Plenty of new screen writers - and even new books as source material it's the producers being ludicrously risk averse
That's rhetorical though
Okidoke I'm still leaving my comment though
Haven't they already had a go at remaking Dirty Dancing and wasn't it a total flop?
They did. A dire TV movie I caught dd watching upon which she said "I thought you said it was great" and I said "the original is not this shite!"
We watched the original the following day and dd was like "that remake is a disaster!"
@unhomme I had a similar experience with my parents and their beloved films. I watched the originals then and learned not to bother with remakes even at that early age.
You need to get a grip if your “disgusted” by remakes of movies
I don't think it's an extreme reaction when you consider the impact of such decisions on the industry (which makes a LOT of money and employees millions of people), on writers and on our culture. This is not a frivolous decision.
I think remaking a film is insulting to everyone who worked on and starred in the original.
I agree especially when it's usually a very poor product the remake
@SummaLuvin remakes/cover versions better than the original are the exception rather than the rule
Hollywood is run by accountants and they don't want to take the slightest risk so they rehash the old faves.
Sadly true these days
Where are the auteurs? Where are the producers with an artistic background?
How do you remake slasher films when everyone has a mobile phone now?
Oh do not even get me started on that!
I'm a huge sue grafton fan. She swore she never wanted her books filmed and now less than 5 years after her passing her husband/family have sold her out and her books are being made into a tv series by bloody a&e studios which are part Disney
So god knows what a mess they're going to make!
Her dd on sm confirmed they aren't even going to be set in the 80's (which all the books are) they're going to have a modern setting which is going to totally mess with major plot points even conclusions in several of her books! It's a disaster in the making! Borne out of pure greed!
It's writers I feel for as they're being squeezed more and more and expected to work without appropriate compensation for their work. Yet without them the tv shows and films we know and love wouldn't exist at all.