Remakes are doomed from the start
Remakes are usually the idea of an accountant. This is because the accountant looks at a popular film, and decides that because they own the rights, it's going to be cheap to remake.

The problem then ends up in the lap of the director stupid enough to take it on, because he somehow has to make a film which is better than the one that we've all come to know and love, but doesn't repeat anything from the original film, because, for example, if you do a shot-by-shot remake, everybody thinks why bother buying/seeing it when it's practically the original?

So out comes the radical new "re-imagining" and everybody hates it, because it's missing everything they loved about it in the first place.

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( Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 15:50, Reply)