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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 19, 2019 17:42:07 GMT -5
I'm sure there are millions of scripts laying around with original ideas. These lame ass remakes aren't exciting anybody. They're getting made though, thanks to the explosion in the number of production companies and distribution platforms. Since the turn of the century the number of movies produced around the world annually has skyrocketed from an average of 3,200 per year in the '90s to 4,500 in 2005, and stands around 10,000 per year now. As that number has risen, so have the number of remakes, but the ratio of remakes to original movies has stayed about the same level as it has for decades, and might actually be lower. And you make the remark about remakes not exciting anybody in a year when Disney released three remakes all considered inferior to the originals, yet made $2.5 billion at the box office. If remakes didn't excite anybody they wouldn't get made, but the truth is that for every one of them that fails there's usually 2-3 that make a shitload of money.
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agent817
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Post by agent817 on Sept 19, 2019 21:23:07 GMT -5
I'm really surprised that WWE Studios hasn't even considered a reboot or a sequel. I could imagine a plot involving another network executive wanting to reboot The Battle of The Tough Guys and maybe try to get the biggest WWE star at the moment to go on the show. Sure, it sounds like a rehash of the original film, a lot of sequels have done that. Even remakes have done that.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Sept 19, 2019 21:36:20 GMT -5
Gonna throw out an odd one which I recently randomly happened to think of recently, but: I don’t know how I’d feel if Se7en had a remake. The original is pretty much a masterpiece on its own, and I don’t think much needs to be added to it. And I also don’t trust any further than I can throw it how contemporary Hollywood, with its endless postmodern self-awareness and trendiness, could capture the gritty brutal realism of the original. But on the other hand, a small part of me does wonder about what a remake of that story would look like in an Internet-age, post-9/11 world with current-year sensibilities.
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Post by wildojinx on Sept 19, 2019 21:57:11 GMT -5
I'm really surprised that WWE Studios hasn't even considered a reboot or a sequel. I could imagine a plot involving another network executive wanting to reboot The Battle of The Tough Guys and maybe try to get the biggest WWE star at the moment to go on the show. Sure, it sounds like a rehash of the original film, a lot of sequels have done that. Even remakes have done that. Doubt they'd use the ending of the original (Zeus falls to his death and lands in the middle of the ring). Though if they got Walter to be in the Zeus role, and maybe Heyman as Brell (for some reason, that character always reminded me of Paul E Dangerously), it would be interesting.
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