To be disgusted by these?

[SoniaFouler]

Listed these on a post in another thread but I think it deserves a thread of its own. These are just some films that are being remade in 2022:

An American Werewolf in London
Dirty Dancing
Drop Dead Fred
The Birds
Little Shop Of Horrors
My Fair Lady
Scarface
The Bodyguard
Gremlins
The Lost Boys
Hellraiser
A Nightmare on Elm Street
I know what you did last Summer
Sister Act
The Sword in the Stone
The Fly

If recent remakes are anything to go by, paying to see any one of these will be a complete waste of money. AIBU? Are any of your favourites listed that you think a remake is needed/you would welcome?

Its just sad and shows a real lack of creativity and innovation in the industry.

@Normando91

You cannot remake The Lost Boys, ffs!!!

Agreed

Sacrilege

They CANNOT remake Drop Dead Fred. It's a classic, and nobody will be able to portray Fred as well as Rik did.

Just googled it, and apparently Russel Brand is going to star in it

I wouldn’t give two hoots about most of the films on this list, but they just can’t re-cast anybody in the Brian Glover part of American Werewolf.

Stick to the path lads…

The only reason I can think of for a remake of An American Werewolf In London is to show how swanky modern CGI is. The whole point of the first one was how ground breaking the effects & make up were for the day. Buggering around with 1s & 0s isn't anywhere near as impressive.

And I won't be scared to walk through an underpass either.

NRTFT

They did a remake of a nightmare on elm street, it was crap.

I thought the dirty dancing one was more of a sequel rather than a remake, I think I watched all of 90seconds of it.

An American Werewolf in London - NO NO NO NO! I thought they already attempted this one. I could see some decent special effects but it wouldn’t be as good as the original

Drop Dead Fred - absolutely hated his movie

The Birds - can’t actually remember it

Little Shop Of Horrors - never a fan but it’s a cult classic and can’t see it going down well.

My Fair Lady - I might be interested, could do a decent modern spin on it

Scarface - that’s like remaking the Godfather 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Bodyguard - meh Kevin Costner is a crap actor, but admittedly I couldn’t imagine anyone but Whitney in this movie.

Gremlins - NO NO NO NO JUST NO

The Lost Boys - I repeat NO NO NO NO JUST NO

Hellraiser - I thought they did a remake of this already

I know what you did last Summer - never saw them

Sister Act - that would be a hard act to follow

The Sword in the Stone - couldn’t stand these movies, can’t stand Michael Douglas.

The Fly - could cope with this, I’m not a Geoff Goldberg fan so this could work, plus I liked the last invisible man remake.

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

This makes me really sad too - I love the alphabet series. The fact they were mainly set in the 80's is part of the appeal. Same as say "murder she wrote". It adds to the charm and cosiness and gives a certain "feel" that just can't be recreated in the modern day. I can't imagine they'll stick to the formula much - ie Kinsey only having two outfits she ever wears and a terrible haircut!

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.

Oops that last paragraph wasn't mine!

They’ll wreck DropDeadFred. I’m sorry but I’m going to have to be sick all over you, immediately.

@AliceMcK

NRTFT

They did a remake of a nightmare on elm street, it was crap.

I thought the dirty dancing one was more of a sequel rather than a remake, I think I watched all of 90seconds of it.

An American Werewolf in London - NO NO NO NO! I thought they already attempted this one. I could see some decent special effects but it wouldn’t be as good as the original

Drop Dead Fred - absolutely hated his movie

The Birds - can’t actually remember it

Little Shop Of Horrors - never a fan but it’s a cult classic and can’t see it going down well.

My Fair Lady - I might be interested, could do a decent modern spin on it

Scarface - that’s like remaking the Godfather 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Bodyguard - meh Kevin Costner is a crap actor, but admittedly I couldn’t imagine anyone but Whitney in this movie.

Gremlins - NO NO NO NO JUST NO

The Lost Boys - I repeat NO NO NO NO JUST NO

Hellraiser - I thought they did a remake of this already

I know what you did last Summer - never saw them

Sister Act - that would be a hard act to follow

The Sword in the Stone - couldn’t stand these movies, can’t stand Michael Douglas.

The Fly - could cope with this, I’m not a Geoff Goldberg fan so this could work, plus I liked the last invisible man remake.

I'm fairly sure you're thinking of Romancing the Stone...

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.

And I guess that’s sort of true for directors, and actors in a way (if not already established). They can’t/don’t want to turn down what is going to be a big production but when it inevitably gets panned by critics and hated by audiences, they get the blame/blacklisted

The Sword in the Stone is a live action remake in the same way they've done with several others like Aladdin

You know Little Shop Of Horrors And Scarface are remakes right?

I'm fairly sure you're thinking of Romancing the Stone...

And he’s called Jeff Goldblum

I've never seen a decent remake.

Are there so few stories in the world that the same ones have to be made into films over and over?

What we REALLY need is a proper full length feature film about the entire suffragette movement. When "Suffragette" came out, I expected it to be that, and it wasn't, it was just the story of one working woman and her slight brush with the suffragette movement.

The TRUE story of the Pankhurst suffragettes, with the marches and demos, the dramatic protests, arrests, arson, imprisonments, force feedings, etc, between 1903 and 1914 would make a fantastic film. Why has nobody thought it worth making?

I’m sure the remake rumours of Little Shop of Horrors have been going on for about 5 years now. I’d be amazed if it actually made it to production

I found out today that Apple TV are "re-making" Fraggle Rock!

Sacrilege.

Apparently 'The Birds' remake will be set in Cornwall, which is where the original Daphne Du Maurier short story was set. Apart from rampant starlings, the version based in Hollywood bore very little resemblance to Du Maurier's original.

Dirty Dancing and Sister Act arent remakes. They're sequels.

The dirty dancing sequel is the "proper sequel" with the original writer coming back and Jennifer Gray back as Baby. It was said before by the original writer that Baby and Johnny got married. So I guess this sequel will deal with Baby's life after his death as they wont recast Patrick Swayze's part.

Sister Act was going to be a remake until Whoopi Goldberg expressed interest in doing another and they decided to make it a proper Sister Act 3.

Which the Fly, the 1958 or 1986 one? .

I might be wrong about the orinigal writer still being attached for Dirty Dancing. She discussed it when it was first announced but maybe she has left it. I dont know.
Jennifer Grey is producing though and she refused to do the other Dirty Dancing projects because they weren't the same or as good. So I think this "proper sequel" will at least keep the same feel as the original.

I’d not be interested in watching ANY of these classics.
American Werewolf in London was so amazing when it first came out- Animatronics and no silly CGI.

Where have you got this from? I googled a couple out of interest (My Fair Lady and the Birds) and there was absolutely no reliable/recent suggestion that they had remakes in the works.

@Lipsandlashes

I’m sure the remake rumours of Little Shop of Horrors have been going on for about 5 years now. I’d be amazed if it actually made it to production

www.digitalspy.com/movies/a31111152/little-shop-of-horrors-release-date/