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Since Hollywood is hellbent on pouring out a dozen by the day, it makes sense to have a thread devoted to all the rumored remakes in the works. That way new threads wont be needed to made over every remake there is out there.

You got news of a latest remake in the making? Bring it here.

The latest rumors abuzz in this "area" is -

Piranha (which is more than confirmed),

Back to the Future (dont ask me),

Grease (and we need this because?),

Gremlins (I wont even go into this one),

Total Recall (yes you read THAT right...and yep, the Arnie one),

Escape From New York (How the hell will this work is beyond me),

Near Dark (Michael Bay is bringing this...you DID expect it from him),

Shocker (Wes Craven is "re-imagining" it...dont ask more),

The Stepfather (by Sony Screen Gems...more like screen garbage),

Funny Games (releasing in Feb next year),

Jacob's Ladder (which has already got a director and started casting)...


I guess I can understand why films like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" , "The Italian Job", "Sleuth", "Death Race 2000" and "Ocean's Eleven" deserve to be remade - for starters, they're pretty old flicks now. And for the most part, they're terribly dated. If Hollywood was restricted to only doing remakes over films over thirty years old... it might be better (but then again... look what happened to "Psycho"!).

But, to remake films like "Can't Buy Me Love" (done a couple of years ago as "Love Don't Cost a Thing"), "Near Dark" (coming up from Michael Bay's crowd), "Shocker" (which Wes Craven is working on - it didn't work first time around Wes!), "Halloween" (nobody liked it! how's that for a hint?) and don't even get me started on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"!

If you must remake a classic.... make them different, make them their own thing... don't just Xerox the original (we could all learn something from Martin Scorsese's remake of "Infernal Affairs" or Adam Shankman's remake of "Hairspray"), its both pointless and pilfy.

So yes, "Piranha" makes sense..

It and about three of the four-hundred other remakes in the works...:rolleyes: