Remaking AWiL? I've only got one comment

Owwwwwww Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

(that works if you do it as a howl... ;) )

Please have some original ideas! I'm sure there are loads of books they can get some from.

"Rumours that the Fursts and Dimension Films are working up a script for Remakers, in which a CGI-resurrected Vincent Price as Prince Prospero is faced by a terrifying plague which has inexplicably transformed every Hollywood movie into a rehash, are unconfirmed."

I tried not to laugh but failed. Tea all over the keyboard and papers behind it. Worst thing is my mind is trying to picture this. I think you've broken my mind Lester!

What next? A remake of John Carpenters: The Thing?

[Yes - I know this was a remake!]

Kill them. With fire.

Oh dear,

maybe if people invested money in writers instead of effects this kind of thing wouldn't happen.

What a shame they feel the need to do this.

Now we can have an endless stream of posts from people who think that a remake somehow erases all copies of the original from history, meaning no one can ever see the original ever again. Then of course the film makers come around to every house in the world, forcing people at gunpoint to go and see the film. That is how it works, surely?

With recent events, I'm looking forward to Thriller and Moonwalker remakes soon.

Just, why?

American Warewolf in Paris... A rehash that flopped.

Be original Hollywood, we don't need to update every old film out there with a new version with added CGI.

Ferkin' tossers, have an original idea you dipshits.

That is all.

Woudlnt that be

KILL THEM With silver bullets

A little aside:

My good friend told me about the Dune remake travesty and before I collapsed sobbing he sent me a little mantra I wish to share with you all that saved me going emo on my life:

I must not watch remakes

remakes are the mind killer

remakes are the little-death that brings total obliteration

I will face these imposters

I will permit them to run in cinemas and for me to ignore them

and when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see it's path

where the duplicate has gone there will be nothing

only the original will remain

Thank-you with all of my heart Gumph.

That's all.

Ha, My uncle ran a pirate video club in. wait for it....... Brixton prison back in the early 80's. I must have been ten when I was invited to watch the original. I only lasted untill jack comes back the first time. I don't think I managed to watch it all the way through untill I was about 15. I know what a wuss. Don;t remake this classic.

American Werewolf is my favourite film ever, with my favourite joke ever (Remember the Alamo), I couldn't say it was the best film ever, but definitely my favourite.

You just couldn't get the same feel from a remake of this, and if they do a dance/techo/(c)rap cover of Blue Moon for the soundtrack, well just no.

Mind you, it could be funny to see if they congratulate anyone famous on their wedding in the credits :-p

Guaranteed this will be moved to become a trendy wine bar fill of bowler hatted blokes in Barnsley.

Never mind Jenny Agutter, where will they get a car that can go from London to the Moors faster than the original MG?

Remember the Alamo...

And don't forget the marvellous choice of music:-)

I bet it goes along the lines of the remake of The Italian Job.

The film will be set in New York (no reference to London except in the title) and the werewolf will live happily ever after.

Couldn't they remake An American Werewolf in Paris instead? At least they couldn't make THAT one worse.

Brian Glover's part. and as its Hollywood are they going to rename the Slaughtered Lamb to the Slug and Lettuce.

Besides who will take Agutter's role and get their kit off with such abandon as Jenny always did?

Not Paris, she'd get her kit off alright but she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag.

I don't know what is more sickening. The idea they will remake it or the idea they most likely will earn money from a rehash and so consider it a success, when all they are really doing is cashing in on it and fooling people into seeking it. (See Day The Earth Stood Still 2008 for details of how to totally screw up a film yet make over $150M dollars from the hype). Bit like the marketing methodology used in the video games industry for the game "Rise Of The Robots", which was so bad its gone down in history as an example of a hype sold product. It seems scamming people is the new Hollywood business model. Oh hold on, that's the old business model used by some films, just taken to news levels of exploitation.

"where are they going to get a co-star who is as sophisticated and sexy, simultaneously, as Jenny Agutter"

Ah yes :) ... Jenny Agutter ... My vote is for Jennifer Love Hewitt. She also has it all. :)

Terminator icon, because the remake most likely will have a disney song singing, Album selling, killer robot Vampire Werewolf from the planet Cola sponsored by guess which companies.

No, they do that all the time.

Look at Costner's Robin Hood, they land at Dover and in 1 day manage to walk from the south coast up to Hadrian's Wall, through a Scots Pine forest and finally getting to Sherwood (which apparently isn't even full of Oak trees).

Jenny = best nurse EVER!

oh yes!

Why do they have to keep on doing this? If it's not remakes and re-hashes it's the bending of history till it breaks. BASTARDS!!!

Maybe this is Hollywoods way of preventing another writers strike. When the day comes that they threaten to walk out again the studios can turn around and say "Well, you haven't written anything original in ages so why should we pay you more?"

I look forward with immeasurable dread to the next round of dire outpourings from LA-LA-Land

The Thing, The Long Good Friday, American Werewolf in London... IS NOTHING SACRED TO THOSE HOLLYWOOD GRASSFUCKERS?

I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

The studios are ALL run by accountants now, not the movie moguls of old.

Their thinking goes something like this:-

Imagination = new

New = unproven

Unproven != profit?

Therefore imagination != profit?

Therefore imagination = bad!

They want to remake The Dambusters and Zulu, too.

If they do, you'll find that the RAF had to import some brave American lads in B-17s to bust those dams, and the name of a certain dog will be stricken from history.

And there's really no telling _what_ they'll do to _Zulu_, except that it'll offend the entire populations of Natal and Wales.

They make remakes all the time, it's what Movie Studios do. After all, why risk doing something new when you can rehash what works with endless sequels, remakes, and "re-visualizations" over and over and over?

I'm still waiting for the remake of the remake to end all remakes - The Last Remake of Beau Geste ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076297/ )

This could turn out as well as the remake of the The Shining. Oh wait, that sucked!

I'm getting fed up of having to reply to these remake articles shouting out "nooooo!!!" and the like. Not sure whether to just give up in despair and never go to the cinema again, or to take it up a notch, jump on a plane and give Hollywood producers a good kicking until they can actually think of something original for once.

Besides, even if they got a stunner to replace nude Jenny, it just won't be the same.

Re: "Nobody can out-John- Landis John Landis."

While true, Landis can follow up with crap sequels (Blues Brothers 2000 for example!).