Upcoming Sequels, Prequels, Remakes and Reboots

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/

Sad Professor

Blood Meridian is probably unfilmable. Like most of McCarthy's work, the beauty is in the prose. In comparison, No Country was a fairly handy adaptation, possibly due to it originating as a screenplay in the first place.

Ole Rodrigo

Sad Professor wrote: »

Blood Meridian is probably unfilmable. Like most of McCarthy's work, the beauty is in the prose. In comparison, No Country was a fairly handy adaptation, possibly due to it originating as a screenplay in the first place.

Probably. But MCCarthy himself said its possible for someone willing to take the risks.

I think the Coens or John Hillcoat could do it. Afterall, it influenced the Proposal quite a bit according to Hillcoat himself. He did a great job on The Road I thought.

Anyway, its stuck on a shelf for the moment.

pixelburp

Looks like another adaptation of a foreign-language cult hit is on its way; the most excellent Norwegian film, Troll Hunter, is to be remade & Neil Marshell (The Descent, Doomsday, Game of Thrones) is attached to direct. Whilst like most the idea of another American remake makes me sigh, the choice of man to helm it is interesting. Marshell's pretty solid and knows how to craft a solid, schlocky genre flick when he wants to...

http://io9.com/we-have-mixed-feelings-about-neil-marshall-remaking-tro-1357827348

Goldstein

pixelburp wrote: »

Looks like another adaptation of a foreign-language cult hit is on its way; the most excellent Norwegian film, Troll Hunter, is to be remade & Neil Marshell (The Descent, Doomsday, Game of Thrones) is attached to direct. Whilst like most the idea of another American remake makes me sigh, the choice of man to helm it is interesting. Marshell's pretty solid and knows how to craft a solid, schlocky genre flick when he wants to...

http://io9.com/we-have-mixed-feelings-about-neil-marshall-remaking-tro-1357827348

Let's save ourselves the usual first few pages that are bound to follow

No. No. No. RAGE!

The original still exists.

Stupid Americans can't read.

They're just bringing it to a larger audience.

Typical no ideas safely safely Hollywood.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with it.

Meh.


My 2c: This was a long time coming, they could have picked a lot worse for the remake and two Trollhunters are better than one. I'm just glad the original found such a big international audience and got the credit it deserved. It's one of the most fun and enjoyable films I've ever watched.

JP Liz V1

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-gary-ross-reteam-steinbecks-east-of-eden/

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer have closed a deal with the John Steinbeck estate for a new version of his seminal novel East Of Eden that will be developed as a re-team for The Hunger Games director Gary Ross and Jennifer Lawrence

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence-gary-ross-reteam-steinbecks-east-of-eden/

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer have closed a deal with the John Steinbeck estate for a new version of his seminal novel East Of Eden that will be developed as a re-team for The Hunger Games director Gary Ross and Jennifer Lawrence

I was reading about this this morning. I'm of two minds. I really love the book, but the original film version isn't that good. James Dean is pretty good in it but he makes everyone else look wooden and terrible by comparison, plus they only focus on Cal and Aron and cut out the whole first part of the book, and also the character of Lee, who kind of makes the central point in the book...

I'm interested that they seem to be going to focus on Kathy for this one. By far the most interesting character in the book for me. However if they're doing it in two parts I assume the first one will be about her and Adam, the second about Cal and Aron?

Anyway... yes, I'm intrigued but wary.

JP Liz V1

Rebel Wilson will star in a remake of Private Benjamin Source