Post by The Curmudgeon on Oct 16, 2012 13:16:04 GMT 2
Thinking back over the last 10 years, it's staggering the sheer volume of movies and TV shows that have had the dreaded "remake/reboot" treatment. You name it, some hack took a stab at ruining it, from 80's sci-fi cheese like V to kiddie classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to under the radar horror like Black Christmas.
Recent remakes have had a pretty low performance, critically and (most importantly for this sort of thing), commercially. Who even remembers the Nightmare on Elm Street remake? No-one, and that's possibly the biggest horror franchise of the lot. This year's Total Recall was also a bust.
Meanwhile, actual NEW stories and new ideas are hitting big time box office bucks. Looper looks to be the sleeper hit of 2012 and horror has proven once again you don't need big name stars to bring in viewers. Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Sinister had no major budget but still made mega profits.
So do you think studio's will sit up and take note? That, hold on, people are burned out and overly cynical of endless remakes of movies that quite simply don't need to be re-told? That maybe new movies, new plots, new characters is actually the way forward?
Of course, with high profile remakes of Robocop and Evil Dead show this point may well be moot, but let's be honest - how good will they be?
So what do you think? Is Hollywood's fascination with remakes over? Or have they simply run out of franchise's to steal from?
Recent remakes have had a pretty low performance, critically and (most importantly for this sort of thing), commercially. Who even remembers the Nightmare on Elm Street remake? No-one, and that's possibly the biggest horror franchise of the lot. This year's Total Recall was also a bust.
Meanwhile, actual NEW stories and new ideas are hitting big time box office bucks. Looper looks to be the sleeper hit of 2012 and horror has proven once again you don't need big name stars to bring in viewers. Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Sinister had no major budget but still made mega profits.
So do you think studio's will sit up and take note? That, hold on, people are burned out and overly cynical of endless remakes of movies that quite simply don't need to be re-told? That maybe new movies, new plots, new characters is actually the way forward?
Of course, with high profile remakes of Robocop and Evil Dead show this point may well be moot, but let's be honest - how good will they be?
So what do you think? Is Hollywood's fascination with remakes over? Or have they simply run out of franchise's to steal from?
