Browsing: Remake

Westworld is not a film we were expecting to get a remake anytime soon.  1973’s feature marked the first time author Michael Crichton directed, more importantly directed an adaptation based on one of his works.  Maybe you’ve heard this one before- company with a grand vision creates an amusement park with GRAND scale attractions and thinks […]

Love it or hate it, The Lion King has been an enduring piece of Disney magic since it’s release in 1994.  To continue with their current idea of “lets remake every single classic film”, Simba and company are the next on the list. The Walt Disney Company announced last night that Jon Favreau will be helming […]

Ben Hur is NOT a film I thought would get remade in my lifetime.  Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) embarked on a journey to bring a ‘re-adaptation’ of the “GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD” to the big screen in 2016, bringing audiences a slightly more faithful version of  Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel.  Surprising, yes, […]

Cult classic Clue is next up on the reboot slate.  Yes, you read that correctly, someone at FOX (shocking, I know) thinks it’s a good idea to remake the much beloved film from 1985 based on the Parker Brothers who dunnit board game. Clue was written by John Landis and directed by Jonathan Lynn, arguably the […]

The original Magnificent Seven is a classic of modern western cinema.  The cast was no small thing, a collection of actors at the top of their game in 1960.  Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and James Coburn headed the film about a group of gunmen hired to protect a […]

In a dreary London West End upstairs theater in June of 1973, something incredible happened.  A silly little live show, that no one ever thought would become a beloved worldwide phenomenon, opened to a very small house.  Written as a love letter of sorts to the fabulous collection of 1940’s campy sci fi films and […]

In a world of remakes, reboots and reimaginings, it can be difficult to find the silver lining in the Hollywood clouds. Ben Hur, a film that begot the Hollywood blockbuster of its day in 1959 starred Charlton Heston, apparently needed a new version.  Directed by Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Wanted), this updated in […]

Dear Disney- We understand you’re very proud of the massive body of work the studio has produced over the many wonderful decades of cinema under your mouse eared belts, BUT FOR GOODNESS SAKE, please leave the classics alone. There are few truly iconic classics that have escaped the recent remake/reboot frenzy, and I thought the […]

I honestly don’t know how to feel about this piece of remake news yet, I mean heck, I’m still trying to come to terms with the new Jungle Book. Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into The Woods) is set to direct a brand new ‘original’ take on the much beloved Disney classic, Mary Poppins.  The Hollywood Reporter says Marc Shaiman […]

I honestly have lost faith the Hollywood machine with remaking classics that have no reason to be redone.  The most recent in a long string of these titles including (but totally not limited to) Big Trouble In Little China, this Ghostbusters reboot, and coming out of Bavaria Film studios….Das Boot. Yes, you read that right.  According to German […]