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Post by Ragingblues on Dec 4, 2008 8:22:10 GMT -5
Fox is Remaking "Romancing the Stone"www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=51014Fox is bringing Romancing the Stone to the big screen again, swinging into development a remake of the 1984 adventure movie and hiring Daniel McDermott (Eagle Eye) to write it, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The original movie helped launch Robert Zemeckis as a director, turned Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito into film stars and established Kathleen Turner as a romantic lead.
Written by Diane Thomas, "Romancing" told the story of a repressed romance novelist who travels to Colombia to find her missing sister only to meet up with an American soldier of fortune. The two embark on a cross-country adventure involving a map, a jewel and a private police force.Somebody please stop these goose stepping Hollywood morons from re-making every movie/TV show older than 20 years!! I can understand the desire to do something right that, because of technical limitations of the era or bad creative decisions, caused the movie to miss it's mark. However, a movie like " Romancing The Stone" is perfect exactly as it is! All they can do is screw it up royally....   How about writing something new instead? What a novel concept that is. What's next, re-making ROTLA too? Ken
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Post by indianablooze on Dec 4, 2008 11:44:47 GMT -5
So much for modern creativety......... Looks like they're trying to cash in on an easy $$$$
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Post by Havana on Dec 4, 2008 17:23:24 GMT -5
That is beyond lame. Okay, so someone in Hollywood loved Romancing the Stone. Why not just make a movie like it with the same feel and sense of fun but with different characters and story? Let the good movie inspire you to follow it's lead and make another good movie. You don't have to literally remake the same movie especially when the original is a beloved classic. So what are they going to do? Hire some music video director to out direct Robert Zemeckis? Now I'm depressed.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 4, 2008 21:20:13 GMT -5
ehhhh...oh why not?! perhaps with Gerard Butler and Kate Hudson starring opposite.....the fat, short lead dude from "Balls of fury". If the studios insist on raping my childhood memories, then i may as well be amused by the finished product.  |
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Post by Damned Dan on Dec 9, 2008 18:27:44 GMT -5
I'm bummed that Logan's Run is being remade and the director has never done a feature. He's some video game/commercial director who specializes in F/X. Anticipate another movie with more spectacle than substance. He's also directing the sequel to TRON which he might be better suited for.
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Post by indyfangav on Sept 1, 2010 21:46:45 GMT -5
i personally loved Romancing the stone, its sequel Jewel of The Nile was pretty weak but fun all the same!  |
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Post by Commander Carnahan on Oct 16, 2010 0:32:47 GMT -5
I think I saw Romancing The Stone shortly after TOD was released if I'm not mistaken. (Where does the time go?). I always hoped they would make a third, and remember thinking War Of The Roses was going to be the sequel to Jewel Of The Nile. Even though it wasn't, I enjoyed it alot more than JOTN.
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Post by niagrawhipco on Nov 10, 2010 3:05:54 GMT -5
Because Hollywood is a bunch of hacks with no creativity and it's easier to remake something by following a given formula than to make something fresh.
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Post by Pennsylvania Jones on Nov 10, 2010 10:39:11 GMT -5
If you HAVE to make a remake, then why not do one of a little-known, not-very-popular movie?
Steven
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Post by zmarty on Nov 15, 2010 22:23:17 GMT -5
eh lets give it some time. i highly doubt it would be as good as the origional but ya never know. (or do we.... hahaha)
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Post by imtheflash on Nov 21, 2010 4:02:44 GMT -5
I think for me, Star Trek (directed by J.J. Abrams) is a good example of "you just never know". I loved it. It didn't take away from the origional but damn it was good. So as long they make it their own but add the magic that made the original good... its hard to do right... but we'll see. BTW I loved romancing the stone
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Post by Pennsylvania Jones on Nov 21, 2010 10:07:17 GMT -5
For me, the new Star Trek wasn't too good. I like it less than I like the Lost in Space Remake, which was far less successful. Remakes/updated versions STINK when it comes to sci-fi, particularly because of technology upgrades that shouldn't have been there. They put Okudagrams on the new Enterprise, and in the original Star Trek, the Enterprise NEVER had Okudagrams. They didn't come around until the Enterprise-A was commissioned. Steven |
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Post by imtheflash on Nov 21, 2010 12:56:28 GMT -5
The reason they have updated technology steven is becasue of the time travel element. They took the dilithium crystals and other things from spalk and nero's ship. They explain that in the movie. And BTW J.J. Abrams didn't shoot the movie in digital because he wanted it to have a more vintage look.
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Post by Pennsylvania Jones on Nov 21, 2010 15:59:43 GMT -5
Yeah, they do explain it in the movie, but I'm one of those "IT MUST BE LIKE THE ORIGINAL VERSION!!!" purist people. I even hated it in the Chronicles of Narnia movies when they added or changed a few lines from the book, and changed the plot quite a bit. I was wrong, of course. But luckily, I saw the LIS movie before the series, or else I'd have hated it as well. Steven |
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Post by imtheflash on Nov 21, 2010 18:49:44 GMT -5
No matter what you do, you can't please everyone when you turn the wealth of material in a book to a two hour movie  |
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Post by Pennsylvania Jones on Nov 21, 2010 23:30:15 GMT -5
Yup, that's true enough.  I think I actually got the "purism" from my sister: she hated the new LotR movies at first because they were too different from the books. But, she soon grew to like them. Steven |
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Post by imtheflash on Nov 22, 2010 20:19:45 GMT -5
To me just because you like one form of something doesn't mean you can't like the same thing in a different form... Nothing is truer of Indy. Raiders, doom and crusade are classics and epic, and to be frank I thought crystal skull was (censor). But it doesn't make me like the original 3 any less. Maybe more. I know skull isn't a remake but it was a re-boot. I digress.... I wish I had a neuralizer to blot crystal skull out lol
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Post by Mr. Fusion on Nov 29, 2010 1:10:51 GMT -5
Remakes/updated versions STINK when it comes to sci-fi, One example in which that is not true: John Carpenter's The Thing ( www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) A spectacular remake of a cheesy '50s sci-fi cult classic ( www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/). That movie rules!!!! It's one of my favorite Kurt Russel performances. Right next to Snake Plissken in Escape from New York and Wyatt Earp in Tombstone. There are a few other great sci-fi remakes but not many. Like you, I had a lot of problems with the new Star Trek, but I got over them and really enjoyed the movie. -Josh |
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Post by imtheflash on Nov 29, 2010 20:28:40 GMT -5
Hey Josh have you heard that they are remaking escape from new york? I love the origional as well.... so I'm very scared because Escape would be very hard to do right and very easy to do wrong |
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