The Most Terrible News You'll Hear All Day
Posted at 9:24 AM Dec 04, 2008
They're going to remake They Live. From The Hollywood Reporter:
John Carpenter's cult 1988 film is getting the remake treatment from Universal and studio-based Strike Entertainment, which are in negotiations to acquire the film rights with rights holder Les Mougins. Strike's Marc Abraham and Eric Newman will produce, while Shep Gordon of Les Mougins and Carpenter will serve as executive producers.Fuck. Don't these people know you can't improve upon a masterpiece?
Comments
This is why I hate Hollywood.
Posted 12/04/2008 at 06:52:59 AMThis "remake" trend is the worst.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Stupid shit!
Posted 12/04/2008 at 07:24:16 AMHollyweird is stupid.
100,000 great sci-fi stories sitting untouched on the bookshelves and all they can do is regurgitate with a healthy dose of FAIL.
Until people STOP going to the remakes, they'll just keep shoveling this crap at us...
Posted 12/04/2008 at 07:37:41 AMWhy not pay Carpenter to create a brand-new cult hit? Sigh...
Posted 12/04/2008 at 07:39:21 AMMaybe this will go away like the "Escape from New York" remake did. At least i'll tell myself that to get through the day.
Posted 12/04/2008 at 07:40:19 AMi agree with what timo said about the shoveling of crap and about how people need to stop going...i think one of the problems is that a lot of people don't realize a remake when they see one. eg. how many of my friends knew the day the earth stood still was a remake? two maybe. or that crappy nicole kidman remake of invasion of the BS? point is they wouldn't make it if people didn't go see it. i'm not saying nerds don't do their part, but they get help from people that don't realize how deep it all goes...and so while 100,000 great sci-fi stories go unmade...we hate life with remakes of they live. also, what ever happened to the bill and ted's excellent adventure remake...you know, the one that was going to make me gouge my eyes out and puncture my eardrums so that i never even get the chance to see or hear it by accident...? too long?
Posted 12/04/2008 at 08:22:17 AMidiots. It'll never be as cool NEVER!!!
Posted 12/04/2008 at 08:50:00 AM...but will it have Roddy Piper? He can still go.
In lieu of him, then I nominate Santino Marella. At the very least, then we'll have a film we can laugh at.
--LBD "Nytetrayn"
Posted 12/04/2008 at 10:25:11 AMIf we are going to remake a Roddy Piper movie, how about Hell comes to Frogtown?
Posted 12/04/2008 at 11:30:59 AMIt's like they're LOOKING for the movie people LEAST want a remake of. Why not just skip straight to Citizen Kane instead of slowly robbing the graves of cult classics?
Posted 12/04/2008 at 06:39:53 PMGuys, Carpenter's The Thing is a remake, and that's a brilliant movie. Invasion had a unique and updated feel for the Body Snatchers standard. It wasn't as awesome as the Sutherland IotBS, but that one was a remake too!
Didn't we hear Plan 9 From Outer Space is getting remade? Is that going to suck for not being true to the original?
Posted 12/04/2008 at 06:51:51 PM"Fuck. Don't these people know you can't improve upon a masterpiece?"
That's what I said when I heard Highlander was getting remade.
I'd rather "They Live" be a sequel. It would be cool yo what THEY are up to today.
Posted 12/04/2008 at 08:41:36 PMCant they leave anything alone..This movie will be shit!
Posted 12/05/2008 at 06:28:18 AM@Arcane
Posted 12/05/2008 at 03:16:42 PMThey better not remake Plan 9 from Outer Space. That's something they can never take away from me. Also, it WOULD suck if it wasn't true to the original.
Hey hollywood, you suck! You suck gorilla balls! Big black hairy gorilla balls!
Posted 12/06/2008 at 11:48:23 AMWhile remaking a great movies is preferable to the continuous retelling of Bible stories and Shakespeare and fairytales and the perpetual retelling comicbook of the last decade, it seems like we're headed towards a "it enforces establishment values and makes money so lets use it" mode of culture...and we're going towards that near future in which all music is in the form of cover albums performed by music machines.
oh wait, that's kind of what They Live is about..
Posted 12/06/2008 at 03:44:26 PMthis fucking blows.
I saw this recently and I thought it was actually ripe for a remake. It's got some great ideas, but it's hobbled by terrible performances and low rent production values. And it was written to showcase those stupid, phony wrestling moves, making some of the action sequences embarrassing to watch.
I say remake it, and the story could join in the ranks of the all time great SF stories, like The Day The Earth Stood Still and Earth vs The Flying Saucers.
Posted 12/11/2008 at 03:22:06 PMYeah, that's right! Why can't "They Live" be more like EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS?
Posted 12/13/2008 at 08:05:20 PM