See, that is a problem every filmmaker will have to overcome. The source material and its fame. If they are, say, 80-85% faithful to the core stuff, it just would not be their vehicle, will it?

A good filmmaker will take the source into consideration, maybe do a 50% adaptation of it, but he will always add his sugar into the content. No matter how much close he comes to adapting the real source/inspiration/work, he has to have some part of the finished product for himself.

We still call it Kubrick's Shining, Jackson's LOTR, Lynch's Dune, Darabont's Shawshank Redemption, etc. (even Chris Nolan's Dark Knight, not Bob Kane's)

And I am sure by the end of it, we will call it Del Toro's Hobbit, not Tolkien's.

War of the Worlds definetely does need to be remade properly.



I'd say Uwe Boll's House of the Dead. It was a good game with an interesting story line. They could make a good film series out of it, better than Resident Evil or Darkness Falls. I can't for the love of me think who could do it well. Maybe Burton because it can be a bit Gothic and the action in the first to Batman films were suitable.

Oh jesus, you reminded me.


Resident Evil.... I would like to say ANYONE but Paul Anderson, but isuppose i should be more specific. Romero supposedly had a screenplay that incorporated more monsters from the game than 2. Needless to say, it probably would have excluded Mila Jovovich as the ass-kicking chick who really looks like she would lose a fight with a noodle. (she didnt even have muscles, come on....)


I would say David Fincher could do a good job, especially if he was a fan of the game.

I LOVE David Fincher as a director, but I think that Neil Marshall would do a fantastic job on the Resident Evil series. He did Dog Soldiers and The Descent, so it's clear that he can do some pretty damn good and threatening beasties (not to mention, he already has a hand on the horror genre). I think that he would have been able to make the Resident Evil series a lot more gritty, realistic, and bloody. I also think that he would have been able to cast a more suitable female lead (good call on that one).

...

I recently saw Choke and I have to say that I was honestly unimpressed. Clark Gregg purposefully directed a very muted, stoic character piece when, honestly, this was a pretty dark, macabre, and disgusting book (to be clear, I mean "disgusting" in the most endearing way; I LOVED the book). The movie itself was... Boring. It NEEDED to be more shocking and disturbing, especially in a sexually deviant sort of way.

Since David Fincher did such a fantastic job with Fight Club, I initially considered that he should have done Choke, but I am honestly not so sure. I think that he can handle action and violence, but in terms of sexual taboo and discomfort, it's not something that I've seen him do (not to say he CAN'T, but I just haven't seen it). Then again, I think that Fight Club was supposed to be more sexually explicit, but some pieces wound up on the cutting room floor ("I want to have your abortion," for one).

I wonder if perhaps David Lynch should have handled Choke. Though, it should be the Wild At Heart David Lynch, not the Eraserhead David Lynch... And I'm not sure he's at that point of his career anymore.

Or perhaps Lucky McKee should have taken a stab at it; he made an AMAZINGLY uncomfortable and macabre character study in May and perhaps he could have done justice to Choke. What we needed was to truly show how incredibly dark the main character is. Oh, and more gross sex. We definitely did NOT get that with Gregg's film.

Gotta be honest, if i had remembered Niel Marshall i probably would have gone with him. And for the record, I liked RE when I first saw it, but listening to the commentary ruined it for me. Michelle rodriguez and mila jovovich were obviously drunk, or just dipshits. either way i was disgusted and it changed how i saw the movie.

Larry Clark should have directed THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS MOVIE
David Cronenberg hould have directed A NIGHTMARE OF ELM STREET
Larry Cohen should have directed THE BRAVE ONE
Paul Greengrass should have directed AVP
Guillermo Del Toro should have directed UNDERWORLD
Terry Gilliam should have directed DUNE

Dario Argent should have directed Giallo, oh wait...

(yes, i can see into the future. Beware peanuts when carried by chiuauas... You'll know when the time is right....)

yikes - not that one.

he'd probably cast Robin Williams as the Baron Harkonnen and he would have been doing his 'famous word associateion ad libbing'

the worms would have been puppets ..

everyone would have died in the end

sounds awesome! except for the Robin Williams bit

as soon as i wrote it - i kew you'd like the worms as puppets