A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again
They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.
The remakes that do well shoot for audiences that might not have ever seen the original. The title isn't enough to get people, especially young people, into theaters.
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
Hollywood likes short-hand pitches for a film. 'Speed' could be pitched as 'Die Hard on a bus,' ... Remakes are the ultimate short-hand pitch. In 20 years when someone wants to remake 'Speed' they'll just say 'It's Speed.'
Hollywood is currently a melting-pot of boring formula and too many remakes, with perhaps a noteworthy movie here and there, but nothing exceptionally good or fresh.
Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.
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