If you had the chance which film adaptation would you remake?

must say though… i’ve picked three kids films as examples here, but obviously i’m interested in the whole filed of adaptation.

I couldn’t agree with you more about ‘The Golden Compass’ what a waste of a wonderful & imaginative story. I think I’d like to see Jaws remade. Although the original adaptation is an absolute classic & I cant fault it one bit I’d love to see what modern film makers could do with it…. especially after watching Deep Blue Sea!

None of my favorites, a sizeable number, and all of the ones I didn’t like, also a sizeable number. ;)

I think they really did a disservice to the story and character development of ‘Without A Paddle’. I think they could do much better. Maybe cast Daniel Craig for Seth Greene’s character

@jaketheripper BLASPHEMY!!!! ;-)

Lord of the flies. Would be an epic if remade.

I’m pretty excited about Clash of the Titans coming up soon… I would also like to see the Never ending story re made.. that was one of my favorite movies as a child.

i agree @ucme LOTF is a great book, good film too but i’d like to see a remake.

I’d like to see Fantastic Voyage remade with PAtrick Stewart playing Donald Sutherland’s role. (Inner Space didnt count for me)

And nit so much a remake but a follow-up for Bladerunner, that would be cool. Are you listening Spielberg? Mr Cameron? make it so.

@scotsbloke i love Blade Runner and though i’ve read one of the sequel novels i wouldn’t want to see a sequel… i have no reasonable justification for this… i Just love that film and the world it inhabits.

@Pcrecords yes, the follow on books were weak, but with the right script, a big budget and maybe Deckard and Rachel coming back from the mountains for one last “Skin-job” hunt! woo hoo. maybe even going off world for a bit.
It’s my all-time favourite movie.

“I’ve seen things you people would’nt believe….........”

The Shining was a really scary book and a really lame, miscast film that fairly butchered the book. I’d like to see it remade as it was written.

@Dracool i honestly dont know why they haven’t remade that. Bet its on the WB to do list, although plenty of people like the Kubrick original.

I think that any of the games from the Myst or Riven canon would make a pretty cool movie.

The movie version of Frederick Forsythe’s The Odessa File was disappointing. It wasn’t bad as movies go, but when I read the book, I found it fast-paced and riveting. I thought it would make an excellent thriller, but it ended up being rather ordinary on the screen.

The Harry Potter films became decent by the time they got to The Prisoner of Azkaban and actually good by The Order of the Phoenix. I think a remake would be in order for the first two films.

I’m almost loathe to mention this but elements of the first two Potters really moved me. Mrs weasley and harrys relationship in particular is incredibly warm in those first two films. I think prisoner… Is my favourite part.

@ucme there were two adaptations of LOTF… the one done in the 60s (63, I think?) I thought was very well done and equally as powerful as the book. The one from the 90s, though… yes, that one could use some revision, although I don’t think it was that bad.

I’d like to see a number of movies based off of Michael Crichton books redone: the second Jurassic Park (aaack! Saved the name of the island from his book and nothing from the plot! It was awful!!), Timeline, Congo… absolutely brilliant books. Real shitty films.

Hmm the 90’s version passed me by of lotf.

I remember feeling like my world was shattered after seeing Eragon. Eragon (and the inheritance series) was one of my favorite stories ever, the only one that I think could top it, is the collection of Redwall stories. Eragon was set on such an epic scale in my mind and the movie made it SO LAME.

i know you’d all have enough about this twilight crap but i’d have to say it’s got to be twilight. not only is the movie as dragging as hell but i’d have to suffer looking at robert pattinson’s scrunched up face. robert is actually really good-looking (have you seen his tv guestings and hello, cedric diggory) but i don’t wth the make-up artists do with him in twilight. kristen stewart is really awesome but she sucked bigtime in this movie. and oh yeah, who could miss the awful, awful cinematography of the film? i mean, its like a 5th grader holding the cam and trying to make a movie. better yet, it would’ve been better if edward just stayed in the books never strayed to the silver screen.