Another Terrible Remake

In the past year I have watched The Day The Earth Stood Still, Death Race, Funny Games and Prom Night, I have no idea why I watched these other then I'am sick man. I would not call one of these films decent, some of them sounded like a good idea, Death Race 2000 was a 1975 cult classic made on a shoestring budget, it was smart funny and satirical. When the idea of a remake was announced I thought why not? Throw some money into some decent car chases touch up the story and put a good narrative in, not take the film and turn it into another incarnation of The Longest Yard with deathly race cars, a sloppy and lazy attempt at what could have been great and maybe thats the problem with remakes there too easy, the basic story elements are there it's just someone filling in the gaps. This year already, a few remakes have been announced that sound so awful it's amazing that I'am able to type them without spontaneously combusting.

Heres a few of the particularly bad ones:

- Bonnie and Clyde starring Hillary Duff

- The Karate Kid starring Will Smith's son and Jackie Chan

- Micheal Bay's Rosmary's Baby (this ones fallen through but it sounded so bad it had to be included.)

- Oldboy with Will Smith

- The Birds with Naomi Watts, didn't Van Sant's Psycho teach anyone not to remake Hitchcock?

- 13 Tzemeti With Jason Statham and Ray Liotta

Not one of these sounds like a good idea you can see the full list here at Denofgeek.

All that was just the intro to the news that has just been confirmed by Variety, it seems as though nothing is sacred anymore with the announcement a couple of months ago about the remake of John Carpenters 1988 film They Live, this already sounded like such a bad idea, I thought it would be impossible to beat - until today.

It's been announced that we will see another version of The Thing From Another World last remade by Carpenter in 1982 as The Thing starring Kurt Russell and Keith David. The film was very faithful to the short story Who Goes There by John W. Campbell Jr and is considered by many to be on of the best Horror and Sci-Fi films ever made.

I recently re-watched The Thing about a month ago and the film still holds up the special effects are truly horrific and no one will ever be able to recreate the tension that Carpenter created as well as the haunting score by Ennio Morricone.

I'm sure they'll try and I'm sure they'll fail, commercial director Matthijs Van Heijninge is scheduled to direct the only other credit he has other than commercials is to direct Zack Snyder's forthcoming Army of the Dead and Battle Star Galactica writer Ron Moore is to script it. The idea for another Thing film was announced a few months ago that it would be a prequel concerning the brother of Kurt Russell's character from the first movie, that didn't sound like a good idea either but at least it was a new story and not just a straight remake. More information should begin to appear but i hope the project disappears from existence.