Suppose you had the chance to re-make a film.......
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Re-making films has been going on for years. Sometimes the film is simply up-dated, somethimes virtually nothing of the original remains. Sometime, even the name is changed.
Anyway, let's suppose you have been out in a position where you can choose a film to remake, choose the actors, modify the original script etc etc.
Which film would you choose, and what changes would you make?
For instance, how about 'Remains of the Day' but with a happy ending?
Or (another) remake of the Italian Job, this time keeping to the original idea but updating the setting etc so as to bring the brilliant original to the attention of later generations?
What would I do? I think I would be having a go at one of the earlier James Bond films, maybe You Only Live Twice, but remove the silly space stuff. I would keep the music, though. And the cat.
Anyway, let's suppose you have been out in a position where you can choose a film to remake, choose the actors, modify the original script etc etc.
Which film would you choose, and what changes would you make?
For instance, how about 'Remains of the Day' but with a happy ending?
Or (another) remake of the Italian Job, this time keeping to the original idea but updating the setting etc so as to bring the brilliant original to the attention of later generations?
What would I do? I think I would be having a go at one of the earlier James Bond films, maybe You Only Live Twice, but remove the silly space stuff. I would keep the music, though. And the cat.
Well as a small act of revenge against the hollywood machine re writing history I would re imagine Pearl Harbour. My version would be called Poole Harbour and would see the British fleet decimated by the dastardly Japanese, dragging us reluctantly into WW2, forcing us to liberate the USA from German rule and take ultimate revenge on Japan with a couple of home made nukes.
The get carter remake wasn't that bad actually. not quite as good as the original (obviously) and it did have Mr Cain in it as well.
A film I'd like to see remade, is The Driver, a classic 1978 film which still beats many modern ones for car chases and tension, IMHO of course. Not sure who I'd pick and there's not much I'd want to change either.
A film I'd like to see remade, is The Driver, a classic 1978 film which still beats many modern ones for car chases and tension, IMHO of course. Not sure who I'd pick and there's not much I'd want to change either.
TVR Moneypit said:
vteclimey said:
A film I'd like to see remade, is The Driver, a classic 1978 film which still beats many modern ones for car chases and tension, IMHO of course. Not sure who I'd pick and there's not much I'd want to change either.
"How do we know your that good?""Get in!.........."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tna4pz2qkXs
The Hypno-Toad said:
Walkabout.....
and I'd cast this young lady in the lead...
I think I could go for that. She's a bit old for the part, but that's OK. Maybe the part could be re-written so that the sister was replaced with a young mother, or nanny or something, alternatively Miss Chalke could just be dressed as a schoolgirland I'd cast this young lady in the lead...
Lefty Guns said:
Lots of Bond films but with the plots from the books this time round 
Try to get Paul Greengrass to direct them.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service could stay pretty much as it, followed the book very well, I would just cut out the part where Bond leaves the lawyer's office with the bit out of the Playboy magazine, and the clumsy dubbing, and change it back to "stirred, not shaken"Try to get Paul Greengrass to direct them.
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