Why Are These Films Being Remade!?

[Bucht]

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned the Lethal Weapon reboot yet, they could only make it worse by adding Shia LaBeouf to the cast.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

1 very simple reason, it's because film making has become very very expensive and film producers would much rather invest in an idea that has already proven to be successful rather than taking a risk on an original idea.

 

[zHellas]

They're apparently remaking Highlander as well. That hurts me.

Have you seen The Source [http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/12/06/highlander-the-source-review/]?

Can't get any worse than that.

 

[Hiraeth]

Edit: why is this guy Conan!!!!

Because:
http://www.movienewz.com/wp-content/gallery/conan/conan_04.jpg
That's why.

I liked him in SGA, and he's also going to be turning up as Khal Drogo in HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones, which I have very high hopes for. Plus he's hot, so there's that.


EDIT: Wow that picture just did not want to work. Have a link instead.

 

[Taranaich]

They're remaking Conan the Barbarian? What the fuck hollywood. And Red Sonja too? Wow talk about scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Those movies have a certain epic quality to them that I just don't see them replicating properly today.

They're not remaking Conan the Barbarian or Red Sonja. They're making new films based on characters that have been around - in Conan's case, almost 80 years. This new film's no more a remake of Conan the Barbarian than Batman Begins is a remake of Tim Burton's Batman.

Also, here are some more up-to-date images of Jason Momoa as Conan:

No, he isn't Arnold, but he's hardly a beanpole either.

The fact they're remaking Total Recall, a 20 year old movie that I thought was fantastic is ridiculous.

Films have existed for less than a hundred years and we're already dry of fresh ideas? I can understand remaking some movies perhaps with up-to-date special effects, but I mean jeez, they just seem to be ruining a lot of classics these days.

This is hardly a new phenomenon. You know "The Wizard of Oz"? The famous musical which practically defined a generation? There was another Wizard of Oz film only fourteen years earlier - and even that wasn't the first. "The Dawn Patrol" was remade in 1938 - the original? 1930. "The Lost Patrol" from 1929 was remade only five years later. "Gordon of Ghost City" was a remake of "Flaming Guns" that came out ONE YEAR after the first film! And there are plenty of other examples with even shorter turnover time. Remakes are not some new thing that's just started to happen recently, they've been around since the dawn of cinema.