Universal To Remake The Grinch?

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And not a furry Jim Carrey this time

www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/how-grinch-stole-christmas-remake-419447

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I rather them remake Cat in the Hat then Grinch imo.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

They should just do a Butter Battle Book movie. Admit the mistakes they made the first time around and move on.

[CMWaters]

The problem I see for something like this is this:

The Dr. Seuss stories, when transferred into a feature length film, need to be HEAVILY filler-fied.

Even when they were simple shorts, you had to stretch them for time on TV. For example, the whole "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" song in the original special, or the bunch of songs in the Lorax TV special.

Then you look at the movie versions. With the original "Grinch" film, you had to add this whole new subplot about Cindy Lou Who losing her spirit of Christmas in this. With "Horton Hears A Who", you had the Mayor having to deal with people not trusting him, his son Jojo being a recluse, Jane Kangaroo's son wanting to be out more and things like that. With the 2012 Lorax you had to give a story to the nameless boy. That sort of thing.

Suess stories, to me, just work better as books than any other medium...but if there has to be a medium of motion, TV specials work better than feature length films.

On the plus side though, at least there's a chance that the Whos will be a hell of a lot more likable in this one than they were in the live action movie.

[CMWaters]

Also, though I feel that way about the Suess movies, maybe there's a chance that we can actually, should they also do an animated Cat in the Hat movie, get a feature-length version of either "Halloween Is Grinch Night" or "The Grinch Grinches The Cat in the Hat".

[xCompackx]

As someone who thought Jim Carrey was the perfect Grinch... I'm intrigued by this.

[BoilerRoomBrawler]

I say forget remaking it. Stream it on Youtube, Netflix, Hulu, etc as a "Holiday Classic Cartoon" every year in December and keep collecting advertising dollars.

Alternately, do the above, but the remake is no longer than the original cartoon; just more modern animation and a new voice cast. Boris Karloff's a tough act to follow though...

[Orange]

LOL at "to direct an animated version of the Dr. Seuss classic".

Ya know, the animated Dr. Seuss classic. ;D

[Bishblast]

The one with Jim Carrey was one of the most infuriating films I've ever seen... just leave the cartoon to be the representation of the story.