Upcoming Sequels, Prequels, Remakes and Reboots

Auvers

250 sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots from Hollywood over the next three years

http://www.imdb.com/list/WUNCarSomaM/?view=compact&sort=listorian:asc

but scrolling to the end actually number 250, I see a remake of a very good horror movie "The Woman In Black" so looking forward to that one among maybe 5-6 others

Other than that Hollywood is really scraping the bottom of the barrel at the moment when it comes to original ideas

some examples

Raging fckin Bull 2
Untitled Drugstore Cowboy Sequel
The Seven Samurai
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Thing

some movies shouldn't be revisited :mad:

Sad Professor

IMDB isn't reliable though. Most of those films won't happen anytime soon, if at all. If someone so much as mentions the possibly of a sequel in an interview, IMDB adds it as being in development. They use it to sell their Pro subscription service.

But yeah, there's too many sequels being made.

McLoughlin

Sequels, Prequels, Remakes and Reboots have been going on for 80/90 years Its only more noticeable nowerdays because of VHS and DVD of films being available when sound came in there was remakes when colour came in there was remakes the 30s and 40s was awash with sequels and reboots to various western, sci fi and horror films but because of no home entertainment people forgot about them and years later the film was remade heck John Wayne remade one of his old films a decade or so after the original.

Sad Professor

That's a good point actually. I mean, Howard Hawks and John Wayne remade Rio Bravo twice. Hitchcock remade his own film The Man Who Knew Too Much as well.

The Mad Hatter

I don't mind the idea of a sequel in principle, since ideally it's just an expansion of a story that already exists. I don't think this is a case of a lack of imagination in Hollywood, though. It just happens that we have a couple of genres now - the superhero genre in particular - that lend themselves very well to making series of films. Half of Hollywood films are so formulaic in any case that accusations of unoriginality at them for releasing sequels or remakes are pretty unfounded anyway.

A remake can be better than the original (Hitchcock's second The Man Who Knew Too Much), a sequel can be better than earlier films in the series (Toy Story 3), a reboot of a series can be better than the original (Nolan's Batman films), an adaptation can be better than its source material (The Godfather). It's not the story that's important - most stories have been told by now. It's the way that the story is told that's important: Shakespeare is probably the most famous writer in the English language, but most of his plays were adapted from earlier material.

jaykhunter

Ah, it's not the worst. If a Sequel, Prequel, Remake or Reboot is better or as good as the original, then it was worth making. If it isn't, it just highlights how great the first film was and also gives it some free exposure.

Today's generation probably won't care to see a 20+ year old film but if you remade it they might. And might seek out the original afterwards. Spreading the love is what it's all aboot!

krudler

what terrifies me is movies that arent even that old will eventually be remade, imagine them remaking/rebooting stuff like Speed, or The Matrix, or American Pie, I'll feel ancient!

ztoical

Just saw the trailer for the remake of Footloose and Kenny Wormald is no Kevin Bacon and Dennis Quaid is a poor sub for John Lithgow. Really don't understand the need to remake films unless your really going to go down a different path with the subject matter or add some sort of twist. The Footloose remake just looks like they added in some hip-hop/street dancing to make it seem cool and new.

PerrinV2

krudler wrote: »

what terrifies me is movies that arent even that old will eventually be remade, imagine them remaking/rebooting stuff like Speed, or The Matrix, or American Pie, I'll feel ancient!

I really hope this never gets rebooted/remade, fav film ever.

Ridley

jaykhunter wrote: »

Today's generation probably won't care to see a 20+ year old film but if you remade it they might. And might seek out the original afterwards. Spreading the love is what it's all aboot!

Shame remakes usually come across as a cynical cash grab relying on name recognition rather than making a good film in and of itself.

The Gibzilla

There's a lot of movies on that list that I'm looking forward to seeing! Such as:
Dark Knight Rises
Ghostbusters 3 (Provided Bill Murray stars)
Zombieland 2
28 Months Later
There's also a lot that I think will never be made and are only rumours at the moment. When it comes to remakes I'm not that fussy because they never really tarnish the original and as for reboots I learned my lesson not to be so dismissive of them from "The Dark Knight". When I first heard they were rebooting The Joker i was disgusted because at the time I thought Jack Nicholson was the definitive Joker but I was proved wrong to say the least!

DOC09UNAM

krudler wrote: »

what terrifies me is movies that arent even that old will eventually be remade, imagine them remaking/rebooting stuff like Speed, or The Matrix, or American Pie, I'll feel ancient!

Christ that's a scary thought actually.

I hope they never touch the matrix, never

S.M.B.

Has that time not passed with the rebooting of the Scream franchise albeit just calling it Scream 4?

jaykhunter

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

I hope they never touch the matrix, never

Well a 2nd stab at Matrix 3 wouldn't hurt

I really thought we weren't done with the matrix. I really thought we'd get at least 1 prequel...and if that did well, 1-2 more prequels.

There's a bit in the movie

where the Architect tells Neo that he wasn't he first; there were 6 (?) other "Neos" before him? I thought; oh god - SIX PREQUELS!

Scanlas The 2nd

jaykhunter wrote: »

Well a 2nd stab at Matrix 3 wouldn't hurt

I really thought we weren't done with the matrix. I really thought we'd get at least 1 prequel...and if that did well, 1-2 more prequels.

There's a bit in the movie

where the Architect tells Neo that he wasn't he first; there were 6 (?) other "Neos" before him? I thought; oh god - SIX PREQUELS!

How come Neo could see in the real world with that yellow stuff? If you can provide an answer that makes sense it will improve that movie a lot for me.

jaykhunter

Sorry, OP!

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

How come Neo could see in the real world with that yellow stuff? If you can provide an answer that makes sense it will improve that movie a lot for me.

You mean in

Matrix 3 when he gets blinded, but he goes into Machine City to strike a deal with the robots? He's actually seeing things as Matrix code; and since it's so close to the source it's ultra bright/strong, it's gold and not regular-green Matrix. Either that or the 'city of light' Machine City is made with a different Matrix code.

Practically it's gold to let u know how important it is lol

humanji

RopeDrink wrote: »

Sequel's I don't mind, depending on it's handling.

All too often you get movies of which are thrown a sequel purely to cash in on the original's success... I got that feeling with the likes of Hangover 2 - I mean, it's literally identical to the first with minor tweaks and less laughs, but yeah, apparantly comedy of the year or some garbage.

Reboots, same principle... I'm an adamant fan of the 80's "The Thing" (Even that is somewhat of a remake, itself) so I will be gravely upset if this upcoming remake doesn't do it justice and, given the track-record for the insurgence(sp) of remakes, I have little to no faith it'll be good to begin with.

Then you have dire stuff like Conan the Barbarian remake, already there are alarm bells and I don't need to link the trailer to remind myself how woeful it looks - Leave these classics alone!

I'd adore something like "The Thing" to be remade with most of it's original cast... I mean, think of that classic being redone with todays technology and maybe a bit of nip & tuck. Kurt Russel is more than capable, Keith David is still on the circuit and no doubt a lot of the others - Wouldn't matter that they're aged now as I'm sure it wouldn't hamper the enjoyment all that much - But then again you have folks who would be happier with a 'fresher' cast and a complete revamp.

*shrug*

All in all the reason Seq's/Preq's/Rem's/Reb's are percieved as generally negative is purely because they churn out SO DAMN MANY OF THEM that it puts the default perspective of them as negative because, let's face it, very few actually do their original work justice and too many just make a shambles of it.

Isn't the new Thing movie a prequel and not a reboot/remake?

DoctorGonzo08

Just saw the trailer for the reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I've only seen the original about 3 months ago. Are they saying there was something wrong with it? Hollywood really must be scrapping the bottom of the barrell for ideas!

McLoughlin

DoctorGonzo08 wrote: »

Just saw the trailer for the reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I've only seen the original about 3 months ago. Are they saying there was something wrong with it? Hollywood really must be scrapping the bottom of the barrell for ideas!

Nothing new there is a large group of people out there that won't watch foreign films or subtitles so the logical step is to remake them into english lanuage films.

Sad Professor

The Swedish original wasn't that great IMO. I'm looking forward to Fincher's take on the book.

DoctorGonzo08

Sad Professor wrote: »

The Swedish original wasn't that great IMO. I'm looking forward to Fincher's take on the book.

It wasn't bad though either. I just have not seen a remake of a foreign film to be made better in English. Plus the fact the trailer seems to have cast the roles on what they looked like in the swedish version doesn't leave my expectations too high.

S.M.B.

DoctorGonzo08 wrote: »

It wasn't bad though either. I just have not seen a remake of a foreign film to be made better in English. Plus the fact the trailer seems to have cast the roles on what they looked like in the swedish version doesn't leave my expectations too high.

Well you can come back here in 6 months and tell us that you now have.

Galvasean

humanji wrote: »

Isn't the new Thing movie a prequel and not a reboot/remake?

Apparently it's about the Norweigen guys, one of whom you see at the start of The 80s Thing chasing a dog.

They will all die

JP Liz V1

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/08/08/dirty-dancing-remake-kenny-ortega/

Kenny Ortega has signed on to direct a big-screen remake of the 1987 hit Dirty Dancing

bnt

Nearly three years ago we were reading that Johnny Depp was cast in The Lone Ranger. Now we hear that this film isn't going ahead after all. Oh well.

He was going to be Tonto, not the Lone Ranger himself. Armie Hammer, best known for playing both Winklevii in The Social Network, was cast in the lead role.

Oscar the grouch

Sad Professor wrote: »

The Swedish original wasn't that great IMO. I'm looking forward to Fincher's take on the book.

But sometimes foreign language films should be left alone...the french horror film "Them" was brilliant and then loosley remade into an english language movie called "The Strangers"which imo destroyed the original.Also the talk of re-doing the spanish horror movie"the Orphanage"which was imo a brilliant film,in english will defile the original....

S.M.B.

How could it destroy the original?

bnt

Just now I was looking up Julie Dreyfus on IMDB: she's one of the stars of Kill Bill Vol 1, and I was curious what she was up to. Well, one of her rumoured future projects, according to IMDB, is ... Kill Bill Vol 3. Uma Thurman is listed too, of course, as is Daryl Hannah. Considering that Sofie Fatale (Dreyfus) was last seen missing an arm, and Elle Driver (Hannah) had had her one remaining eye forcibly extracted, I wonder whether the plans are for a prequel ..? :cool:

Galvasean

Isn't Kill Bill 3 a joke QT played on the media?
Y'know

What with Bill being dead and all....

paddy kerins

bnt wrote: »

Just now I was looking up Julie Dreyfus on IMDB: she's one of the stars of Kill Bill Vol 1, and I was curious what she was up to. Well, one of her rumoured future projects, according to IMDB, is ... Kill Bill Vol 3. Uma Thurman is listed too, of course, as is Daryl Hannah. Considering that Sofie Fatale (Dreyfus) was last seen missing an arm, and Elle Driver (Hannah) had had her one remaining eye forcibly extracted, I wonder whether the plans are for a prequel ..? :cool:

You should never believe IMDb on stuff like this. They said Nic Cage and Bruce Willis were cast in Captain America

Funglegunk

Galvasean wrote: »

Isn't Kill Bill 3 a joke QT played on the media?
Y'know

What with Bill being dead and all....

Maybe

he comes back as a zombie and Robert Rodriguez is directing.

bnt

paddy kerins wrote: »

You should never believe IMDb on stuff like this. They said Nic Cage and Bruce Willis were cast in Captain America

Who said I believed it? I should put more Smileys on my posts, I guess ... :rolleyes:

Mickeroo

So Martin Scorcese is re-making The Gamber with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead. Apparently no-one told the writer of the original and he's not best pleased about it at all. Here's a bit from the original article:

The film in question, The Gambler, was financed and distributed by Paramount in 1974 and directed by the late Karel Reisz. It was derived without a syllable of alteration from the final draft of my blatantly autobiographical original screenplay and starred James Caan as Axel Freed, a City College of NY literature Lecturer whose addiction to gambling overrides every other aspect of his richly diverse life. It might seem odd that my initial response to the news of the purported remake would be something south of “flattered and honored,” but the truth is that my main feeling was one of disbelief that I was learning of these plans at the same time and in the same fashion as any of the regular devoted readers of this column. It struck me as particularly odd since I have been a friend and unlimited admirer of Leonardo’s since our initial encounter in 1994 when we were, in fact, all set to close a deal on his playing the lead in Harvard Man – a deal sabotaged only by Bob Shaye’s overriding the greenlight which Mike DeLuca had conveyed to Jeff Berg and Jay Moloney. Equally odd was not hearing anything from Irwin Winkler who, I was soon to learn, is to be the producer on this projected new version as he was on the original. Perhaps my inability to view this “tribute” as primarily flattering was additionally influenced by a recent and infinitely more felicitous experience which involved remarkably similar circumstances. My movie, Fingers, was remade as a Cesar prize-sweeping film, The Beat That My Heart Skipped by Jacques Audiard, the great French filmmaker who called me from Paris and then flew to New York to discuss Fingers in great detail before redoing it, apparently not sharing the current group’s quaint — if indeed entirely legal –notion that as long as they “own” something — even a movie — they are fully entitled to do whatever they wish to it without even bothering to consult its creator.

JP Liz V1

Source

Source Code writer Ben Ripley has been hired to rewrite 1990 thriller Flatliners for Columbia Pictures

expectationlost

Please No: Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler for ‘Romancing the Stone’ Remake?

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/please-no-katherine-heigl-and-gerard-butler-for-romancing-the-stone-remake.php

lace

Sam Raimi is making a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. Very excited for this. Disney's got it and I'm hoping for some really stunning production design.

He's also supposedly remaking The Evil Dead.....not so sure this is a good thing

bnt

Dunno why this thread dropped off the Radar, since the *-quels are coming in a never-ending stream. The latest: a Tomb Raider prequel. When asked about the previous TR films, producer Graham King said:

Listen, the box office, they weren't disasters but I find it interesting that the story that we're telling is really the story before she became Lara Croft, so it is a character piece. It does have a lot of really great characters, but it's a lot of action and a lot of fun, and for me, it's something very different. I've not really done a movie like that before, but I really gravitated to rebooting this franchise and we're going to give it a shot.

JP Liz V1

Ben Stiller is going to star and direct a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Kristen Wiig and Patton Oswalt also to star

Technocentral

Was thinking of starting a thread for upcoming original films, but I don't think there are going to be any made in the future, when there are so many crap TV shows to be made into sh*t films, 2d films to be converted to 3d, endless sequels and Swedish films to be translated into english for people who can't read subtitles to be made .

Technocentral

Technocentral wrote: »

Was thinking of starting a thread for upcoming original films, but I don't think there are going to be any made in the future, when there are so many crap TV shows to be made into sh*t films, 2d films to be converted to 3d, endless sequels and Swedish films to be translated into english for people who can't read subtitles to be made .

There's just as many original films being made as there are sequels and adaptations. People will cry and moan about the latest Transformers film making so much money but never consider the fact that the profit made from it allows the studio to take a risk on a less main stream film. Looking at the year ahead and there are dozens of good looking original films coming out every month.

MJ23

They should make another Napoleon Dynamite film. It'd be deadly.

paddy kerins

MJ23 wrote: »

They should make another Napoleon Dynamite film. It'd be deadly.

There's an animated tv series that just started in America

JP Liz V1

Source - Movies.ie

20th Century Fox has tapped Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal (‘Babel,’ ‘The Motorcycle Diaries,’ ‘Y Tu Mamá Tambié’) to lead ‘Zorro Reborn,’ a futuristic reboot of the Spanish swordsman tale.
With a screenplay by Glenn Gers (‘Fracture’) and ‘Harker’ scribes Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy, the reboot of the ‘Zorro’ mythology takes the masked avenger from his historical California or Mexico setting and places him in desolate post-apocalyptic world, with Garcia Bernal’s swordsman as a masked vigilante bent on revenge.
A rival project is in development over at Sony, which released two Zorro films starring Antonio Banderas. That project will be an origin story based on Isabel Allende’s 2005 novel ‘Zorro.’

JP Liz V1

Tom Cruise could be getting back in vamp territory in a new Van Helsing film if rumours are true

jcf

Saw the clip for Total Recall

looks Cac --

"Look WHAT ELSE we can do with Special FX" (*10000)"

BopNiblets

Someone remove his Ctrl and V keys...

Zorro reboot! An atrocity! It'll never be as good as the Antonio Banderas version!

Yes I'm joking!

JP Liz V1

Walter Hill has apparently signed up to write and direct a remake of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane - surprised anyone would try to remake this, hard to see who could take on Bette Davis and Joan Crawford's roles but perhaps Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett

fifth

Yeah this:



Please don't mess it up.. there's viral videos on youtube from 'omnicorp'.

Didn't realise it would be so large when I posted it, sorry!

JP Liz V1

Mark Wahlberg is eyeing the lead role in Paramount’s long-gesting remake of the 1974 James Cann movie The Gambler.
Based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky the original centred on a UCLA literature professor with a gambling problem. When his addiction gets the best of him, he extorts money from his mother and bribes one of his students to shave points in a basketball game so that he can pay off his debts.
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt is said to be eyeing the director’s chair for the project, which features a script by The Departed scribe, William Monahan.
Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, who produced the 1974 original, are on board to produce the remake alongside Stephen Levinson - Source Deadline

MJ23

When will they ever make Porno? The follow up to Trainspotting. They book is very good. Interesting to see where the characters went.

Ole Rodrigo

Slightly off thread, but something very interesting the past few years is the proposal to adapt Cormac McCarthy's ' Blood Meridian ' . First of all Ridley Scott was signed on to direct, and then dropped it during preproduction saying it was not possible to film. Then Todd Field came onboard ( he directed the excellent In the Bedroom ) , he also jumped ship. The rights were sold to Scott Rudin by Tommy Lee Jones ( a big fan of McCarthy, he starred in No Country For Old Men ) who was hoping to combine production with some other westerns he was involved with. Then James Franco came along and tried to buy those rights intending to direct it himself, but couldn't get them and settled for filming As I lay Dying instead.

Now its listed as ' In Development ' although no casting or production crew have been signed. The only buzz about it is forums debating who actually has the chops to make it and which actors can pull off some of the characters.

http://www.wordandfilm.com/2012/09/casting-the-uncastable-adaptation-cormac-mccarthy-blood-meridian/