You know you’ll watch it.  You’ll watch it, and LOVE it.

Its offical, Hollywood as run out of ideas.

You know you’ll watch it.  You’ll watch it, and LOVE it.

Great, herky jerky action sequences at bad close-up camera angles.

Friday the 13th meets Michael Bay. That has got to be the ultimate marriage of suck.

Sing it with me…
Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies...

Friday the 13th with explosions?

C’moooooon.

C’moooooooooooooooooooon!

... Yeah, no, I got nothin’. I just wanna see more crossovers.

So when is the Wizard of Oz remake coming?

Oh, you KNOW it’s coming soon.  I say we’ll have a Wizard of Oz remake by 2012 at the very latest. 

Hollywood ran out of ideas a long time ago.  What was the last moderately successful original movie that wasn’t a remake or inspired by a novel / comic book?  E.T.?

I say we’ll have a Wizard of Oz remake by 2012 at the very latest.

I think you might have missed something, SW…

Or even something else

Not to mention the 2010 project, currently titled ”Oz”…

And that’s not even counting the Broadway version of “Wicked”.

Friday the 13th with explosions?

And with army guys. Can’t forget the army guys.

So they will do ANOTHER fucking remake but they won’t do Gears of War or Halo....WHY!?!

What was the last moderately successful original movie that wasn’t a remake or inspired by a novel / comic book?

My Big Fat Greek Wedding?

Michael Bay also thinks he can remake The Birds. If anyone in Hollywood ever has or is trying to remake Hitchcock, they need to be shot dead. Nobody in Hollywood right now could EVER match Hitchcock. The Psycho remake? Practically shot for shot, but it still sucked. Rear Window? Different take, not nearly as good. Any other ones I’m missing that were made by shit filmmakers who idiotically thought they could match one of the best directors of all time?

Forgot one Drum

Muppet OZ

Halo is coming in 2009.

Sadly it is not.

Director Blomkamp-
“The film is entirely dead. In the configuration it was in. Whatever happens with that movie, assuming that movie gets made, will be a totally different configuration. It’s not so much me as the entire vessel sank. Basically, it was a combination of; there were two studios involved that weren’t getting along in the process of making it, Universal and Fox. That kind of stuff happens, it’s a fragile industry. So the film collapsed at the end of last year, and it’s been dead, ever since then. I’ll be curious to see what happens.”

IMDB needs to update...bad.

my only hope is that with the cost of producing sci fi movies going down thanks to computer animation, we MIGHT get a few of our favorite novels and cartoons made into quality movies by people who care............
wait, who am i kidding…

I want to see some of Larry Niven’s work on the screen, Jerry Pournell, and David Weber’s.

Oh come on, it’s Friday the 13th! Even Michael Bay can’t make that worse. Me, I’m waiting for this:

Here

and

Here

I already knew about “The Wiz.” But, if I remember right, that was a made-for-TV movie, was not it? 

And “Wicked” is, at least, a twist on the “Wizard of Oz” story. 

I was talking about a big-budge summer blockbuster “The Wizard of Oz” remake.  That “Oz” project that Drumwaster linked to is probably it.  In any case, I fully expect to see a “Wizard of Oz” remake (complete with explosions) by 2012.

You know, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say “So what if they remake the Wizard of Oz?” You know, there’s an actual chance it might… SHOCK, GASP… be good.

After all, the recent Chronicles of Narnia movie was technically a remake. There have been at least two different productions that tackled the series before. Of course, the actual recently released movie was light years better than they were on every level, from the additional material to the effects to the casting to the acting. Same for the Lord of the Rings and its previous halfhearted attempts at animated adaptations.

The Wizard of Oz is an iconic movie, but it’s an adaptation of a book, and as likely to be readapted as anything else. The new version might just… just possibly, mind you… be good. Even if odds are against it, they’re probably not as against it as you think.

And you know what? If it sucks, it’ll be forgotten. No one will give a shit about it. Just like the recent “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. It was entertaining, but had NONE of the charm, wonder, or lasting quality of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. Depp’s creepy, heartless Wonka will be relegated to the bargain bin while Wilder’s smiling, enigmatic Wonka will continue to sit on store shelves beneath a “Classics” label.

A crappy remake doesn’t hurt the original, and a good remake is, well, good. Hell, either way the remake will result in them showing the original on TV, both networks and movie channels, for months before its release, and probably a fresh release of it out on DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-Ray.

Just sit back and don’t freak out too bad. It’s neither the end of the world nor the end of entertainment.

you should see MY version of OZ!
LOL

The original Willy Wonka sucked. Tim Burton’s is better.

The original Willy Wonka sucked. Tim Burton’s is better.

Get off my blog you heretic. ;)

That’s gotta be a troll, no way anyone would say that and mean it.

I am serious. The one good thing about the original was Gene Wilder.