Imagination is dead

[Kristatos]

Here are lists of 75 reboots/remakes and 86 sequels currently in the works. Go see Inception if you haven't already done so. Let Hollywood know that WE WANT ORIGINAL MOVIES!

[katied]

Most of those, save for Let The Right One In and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo are movies that I will NOT see.

[Omega]

Some sequels are good, Dark Knight naming one. The lack of new original movies is a disturbing trend. When a movie like Inception good but overrated to a degree beat out the rehashed competition for 3 weeks it's a good message to everyone involved making movies. I'm glad I added to Inception besting the weekend.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Some of the movies such as Ghostbusters, Highlander and Police Academy sound fine. Others, such as remaking Overboard, are scraping the barrel.

Also, Dudley Moore is Arthur.

[Kristatos]

Some of the movies such as Ghostbusters, Highlander and Police Academy sound fine. Others, such as remaking Overboard, are scraping the barrel.

Actually, I'd rather see a remake of a film that wasn't much good the first time, in the hope that this time, they'll get it right. The same goes for The Black Hole, a film that had some interesting ideas, but was poorly executed. Maybe, just maybe, the remake will be better.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Some of the movies such as Ghostbusters, Highlander and Police Academy sound fine. Others, such as remaking Overboard, are scraping the barrel.

Actually, I'd rather see a remake of a film that wasn't much good the first time, in the hope that this time, they'll get it right. The same goes for The Black Hole, a film that had some interesting ideas, but was poorly executed. Maybe, just maybe, the remake will be better.

What are your favourite remakes? John Carpenter's The Thing, The Invasion of The Body Snatchers with Mr Spock and The Thomas Crown Affair spring to mind. Although Invasion probably des not count as a remake as it come from a novel.

[Kristatos]

What are your favourite remakes? John Carpenter's The Thing, The Invasion of The Body Snatchers with Mr Spock and The Thomas Crown Affair spring to mind. Although Invasion probably des not count as a remake as it come from a novel.

So did The Thing. I'd say The Fugitive was a good example of a first-rate film based on a rather dull TV series.

[Mazer Rackham]

Here are lists of 75 reboots/remakes and 86 sequels currently in the works. Go see Inception if you haven't already done so. Let Hollywood know that WE WANT ORIGINAL MOVIES!

The more people who add their voice to this the faster it will happen. It already is the growing public consensus but the studios are too stuck in their mentality to take the first step.
Original scripts are out there by the dozen but the studios are too comfortable/scared to take the risks. Some are going to bomb that's always the risk and the risk ought to be worth it.

[carl stromberg]

They Live is being remade.

[katied]

I liked Let Me In..it actually improved upon the original somewhat.

[Dr. No]

I saw the remake of Karate kid....
Why. Jakie chan is ok I actually watched it because of him, he wasn't as good as Mr Miyagi, Miyagi had a better story. most of story is the same as the original but none of it was as good. Some better action sequences maybe. Why remake this i have to assume it is because they have no ideas in hollywood, maybe MGM and Barbara broccoli aren't so far out of the norm for hollywood.

[carl stromberg]

A UFO film could be good:

http://io9.com/5280982/ufo-creator-gerr ... vie Remake

We recently reported that super-producer Robert Evans is teaming up with British network ITV to bring the seventies cult classic UFO to the big screen. Gerry Anderson, the show's creator, has now commented on the news with surprising optimism.

In an interview with Den of Geek, Anderson acknowledged he had been contacted by the new film's American producers and that he has high hopes this will lead to him having a role in the film's production:

"I got a call from somebody in America. It was very kind actually - they phoned to say, 'Gerry, listen, there's an announcement going out now [about the new movie] and we didn't want it to come as a shock to you', which was a kind move. As a result of that I had a long chat with them. It wouldn't help me to blow this up bigger than it is, but I have a feeling that I might end up being a consultant on the movie."

This marks something of a change from the last time one of Anderson's shows got the Hollywood treatment. The makers of the utterly disastrous 2004 movie Thunderbirds had initially invited Anderson on as a creative consultant, but let him go days later when they decided they already had enough people on the payroll. Anderson has previously described the Thunderbirds movie as "the biggest load of crap I have ever seen in my life", which sounds about right.

Despite this previous bad experience, Anderson is cautiously optimistic that UFO will be different from the mostly awful Hollywood remakes of classic British shows, Thunderbirds very much included:

"Over here there's a rather unfortunate history about remakes; Thunderbirds the film was a disaster, and The Avengers, and so on. But I hope, and I think I probably believe, that this could be the exception."

The UFO movie is currently still in the development stages. The original series is available on DVD and heartily recommended.

[Den of Geek]

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