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Edward said:A touchy subject for me at present, as Lou Adler is yet again threatening to do a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
With perhaps David Tennant as Brad?
Edward said:A touchy subject for me at present, as Lou Adler is yet again threatening to do a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
Staggerly said:Personally, I blame Michael Caine. Leaving Sylvester Stallone, Marky Mark and Jude Law to correct all his mistakes! Shameful.
Edward said:A touchy subject for me at present, as Lou Adler is yet again threatening to do a remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and this time it looks like it might actually be more than just a ruse to raise brand awareness ahead of a new DVD pressing.
Who is Lou Adler? Never heard of him.....
Kassia said:How about The Fly?
1911 Man said:...or a remake of "Casablanca".
Josephine said:With perhaps David Tennant as Brad?
Kassia said:Who is Lou Adler? Never heard of him.....
to be perfectly honest, I am curious what that will come up with. I found the original to be the most disappointing movie I have ever watched (except perhaps the old Mummy movie). I found it neither scary nor suspenseful, and the lack of a resolution really annoyed me.Miss Golightly said:A remake of The Birds is in the pipeline - I can just imagine it will be dripping in CGI. No remake is necessary - I was only watching it yesterday on tv and the original is superb.
I know I shouldn't compare actresses in the leading roles but Naomi Watts is no Tippi Hedren....I remember watching The Birds and Marnie as a teenager and thinking how fabulous Tippi was - so poised and elegant.
In fact I would go so far to say that there are no actresses today who could portray the ice cool blonde that Hitchcock was so fond of....
Yeps said:to be perfectly honest, I am curious what that will come up with. I found the original to be the most disappointing movie I have ever watched (except perhaps the old Mummy movie). I found it neither scary nor suspenseful, and the lack of a resolution really annoyed me.
Yeps said:to be perfectly honest, I am curious what that will come up with.
HadleyH said:I know exactly what they will come up with. shakeshead
The Birds is a great movie by a great director! To remake this would be unoriginal and yet another waist of time and money.
Thanks but no thanks.
Something just clicked for me whilst reading this, even if my question isn't really relevant:mike said:I feel like I've written this elsewhere on the Lounge, but can't locate it at the moment.
The concept of remakes is not a bad one. The idea that Hollywood is out of fresh ideas is not new. The Universal monster films were in virtually all cases not the original adaptions of those stories. There were dozens of Invisible Men in the first 2 decades of the 20th Century. Frankenstein was first birthed in 1910 courtesy of Thom. Edison. Nosferatu predated Dracula, even if it was illegally made. Same is true with Der Januskopf and at least 3 other Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde versions. What is necessary are competent artists at the helm and new classics can emerge.