Old Movies

[rok]

<!--quoteo(post=1264:date=Dec 4 2008, 01:54 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Dec 4 2008, 01:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->So...that will be the second remake of The Thing.

I actually think a remake of They Live is a pretty good idea. It's a really good concept, but some shitty acting, bad music, and a first act that lasted entirely too long killed it. A lot of the writing was pretty cheesy, too.

Anyway, get a good writer on board and They Live could be pretty solid.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, it would be the 3rd version of the Thing.

I'm with you 100% on They Live. It was a great concept and had its moments, but overall the movie was poorly made and written. A remake could be excellent with the right actor (hopefully not The Rock or some other washed up former wrestler) and better writers, as long as it doesn't turn into an R-rated Men In Black.

[dvdastud]

Planet of the apes is a great flick, I'm a huge fan of labyrinth.

[rok]

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->#1 20TH CENTURY FOX REBOOTING PLANET OF THE APES AGAIN WITH CAESAR

The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Butcher]

<!--quoteo(post=2447:date=Dec 8 2008, 03:57 PM:name=rok)-->QUOTE (rok @ Dec 8 2008, 03:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->#1 20TH CENTURY FOX REBOOTING PLANET OF THE APES AGAIN WITH CAESAR

The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Out of Sight and Minority Report were both really well written movies. This could be pretty solid.

[rok]

<!--quoteo(post=2454:date=Dec 8 2008, 04:12 PM:name=Butcher)-->QUOTE (Butcher @ Dec 8 2008, 04:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=2447:date=Dec 8 2008, 03:57 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Dec 8 2008, 03:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->#1 20TH CENTURY FOX REBOOTING PLANET OF THE APES AGAIN WITH CAESAR

The movie site CHUD.com has been following rumors that 20th Century Fox was looking to make a Planet of the Apes prequel for a while now, and this week, that project became very prominent, starting with a comment by Fox honcho Tom Rothman that they were indeed working on what he called a Conquest of the Planet of the Apes remake. Soon after, CHUD revealed that the current writer and expected director of the project is Scott Frank (screenwriter for Out of Sight, cowriter of Minority Report), who made his directorial debut in 2007 with The Lookout. A clarification came to CHUD the next day that the project, which was formerly known as Genesis: Apes is now known as simply Caesar (despite the confusion with a Roman movie that title creates). Rather than the full-blown "ape revolution" story that Conquest was, Frank's Caesar would be a smaller movie about a single chimpanzee (who isn't as tall as a man as the original movies showed them) whose intelligence is increased through experimentation. I'm well on the record as being opposed to remakes, but this prequel idea, which strips Planet of the Apes all the way back to its very earliest origins, sounds like it could actually be an intelligent sci-fi movie.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Out of Sight and Minority Report were both really well written movies. This could be pretty solid.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I totally agree. Lookout wasn't bad either. This sounds really unique, as long as it doesn't turn into a Monkeyshines type disaster.