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Rumours of an American Werewolf in London remake are circling. I swear, I’ll smurfin kill someone if it’s ever greenlit. If one film deserves NOT to be remade for the CGI, Micheal Bay generation, it’s this one.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41554

I’d be onboard for a franchise; sure, they’d most likely suck balls, but at least they’d be semi-distanced from the original. And one more shitty sequel won’t hurt, right? (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118604/). So here’s looking forward to An American Werewolf in America ;0)

I can’t agree with you more…I can hardly bear the thought of this being remade…not EVERYthing needs remade.  Remake another sh*tty eighties slasher movie…remake another classic dance movie or a tv show into a movie…please leave David and Jack, nurse Price and the citizenry of East Proctor as they are..PLEASE GODDAMIT!!!

I’m glad Freddy brought up The Stuff on this week’s show because that is a perfect example of a movie that could be ripe for a remake. I don’t understand why studios have to keep remaking classic films when there are so many lesser-known films that have been forgotten by the general public over the years. If you are counting on re-selling a product to a younger audience that is probably not very familiar with the original, why do they have to mess with the big guns? (I’m looking at you, remake of The Omen) Why do they have to “re-boot” franchises that have been flogged to death when they could jazz up a forgotten 70’s or 80’s flick and start a new franchise?

Just wait. Any day now they are going to announce a remake of This is Spinal Tap staring the Jonas Brothers.

Blayne - 29 June 2009 09:20 AM

Just wait. Any day now they are going to announce a remake of This is Spinal Tap staring the Jonas Brothers.

*shudders*

Yeeeegh

I liked An American Werewolf in London, but I’ve never been a huge fan. I doubt I’ll ever see it again. I can’t see it being improved much by a remake.

Hate to be the one to break this news, but it’s been confirmed today;

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=25180

If the Birds and Rosemarys Baby weren’t enough to send me over the edge then this has to be! I only saw American Werewolf for the first time a few years ago, after I heard about it on the show and loved it first time! It’s mentioned in the above article about not using CGI for the effects and for me they were one of the best things about the original, apart from the characters and storyline. I hope they don’t, but why would they do anything sensible like that?! They should watch Splinter-now that’s good (mostly) practical effects in a modern film! Take note!

I take Rosemarys Baby back- didn’t know it had been scrapped! That’s one bit of good news anyway!

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0634218/

Flipping heck so is the Birds…at least for now!

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0836695/

Those two proposed remakes had me ready to lose my mind—I’m very glad that they’ve been tabled, HOWEVER of all 3 movies An American Werewolf in London is the one that is nearest and dearest to my heart.  It is in my top ten fave movies and it would be ridiculous to remake it.  You can’t recapture what they did.  It’s like trying to remake Ghostbusters or Jaws—I mean, Jesus Christ, why don’t we just remake every movie that ever did well, huh?  Why don’t we just do that?  Let’s go ahead and remake sh*tty versions of Ghostbusters and Jaws and An American Werewolf in London and let’s remake all the John Hughes films (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, etc) with the casts of the Hills and Gossip Girl and then let’s remake the Terminator and Predator and then let’s go ahead and remake all of the Harry Potter movies but let’s do them as musicals and then we can remake all of the remakes…Where does it f*cking end??!!  I mean some movies lend themselves to it…remake Christine, I mean, John Carpenter’s version is good but I wouldn’t mind a different take on that—BUT MADE BY SOMEONE WHO IS A FAN OF THE NOVEL NOT A HODGEPODGE THROWN TOGETHER BY HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVES—remake The Swarm, it was a good idea but a bad movie…don’t remake stuff that can’t be improved upon or that you can’t come at from a different perspective.  American Werewolf doesn’t have another perspective because it is more character driven than story driven.  When the story outweighs the personalities of the characters, those movies are ripe for remakes but when there are indelible performances in a straightforward story—LEAVE IT ALONE!!!  ARGGGHH!H!!!!

Uh, nobody is forcing you (whiny) lot to watch these films…if you have no interest in the remake:

Don’t. Watch. It.

Mmmmmmmm, see, no, that’s not the point really.  The idea of a really great movie (or any piece of art that’s important to you) being repackaged for the sole purpose of appealing to a younger, hipper, attention deficit, red bull drenched, bubble-headed audience is abhorrent to me.  People are passionate about this sh*t—there’s a difference between whiny and passionate and when studio execs go poking around at stuff that people are passionate about just to make a quick buck, people are going to respond verbally.  You know, it’s not even that its a sacred cow of a movie, I mean, I loved the Dawn of the Dead remake and never had a problem with it to begin with…there’s something intangible about movies on an individual basis that either makes them a good or bad candidate for a remake.  And no, I sure as f*ck won’t go see it if they remake this movie.  Yeah they have a right to make it but they sure shouldn’t invoke that right.  And I’ll continue to bitch about this until my lungs collapse.  Every time they announce a remake of a movie I don’t think should be remade I’m going to throw down a similar rant.  It doesn’t matter if anyone agrees with me or not, I am almost always right about this stuff and I will continue to be.

kelleynotlp1 - 30 June 2009 08:53 AM

The idea of a really great movie (or any piece of art that’s important to you) being repackaged for the sole purpose of appealing to a younger, hipper, attention deficit, red bull drenched, bubble-headed audience is abhorrent to me.

Kelley! You are back on by sh1tlist dude, don’t you call me “bubble-headed” (and I swear, if you respond with: “ehh, I wasn’t talking about you blah blah” I will kill you).

kelleynotlp1 - 30 June 2009 08:53 AM

People are passionate about this sh*t—there’s a difference between whiny and passionate and when studio execs go poking around at stuff that people are passionate about just to make a quick buck, people are going to respond verbally.

I love the film ‘Bedknobs & Broomsticks’, it was the quintessential film of my childhood and I have probably seen it over two hundred times. If they decided to remake it today with Miley Cyrus & the three Jonas brothers - I wouldn’t care. If they were only doing it to make money and the plot wasn’t at all the same - I wouldn’t care. It’s my favorite film, but I don’t have to see it. I wouldn’t see it, because I don’t have to.

kelleynotlp1 - 30 June 2009 08:53 AM

And no, I sure as f*ck won’t go see it if they remake this movie.  Yeah they have a right to make it but they sure shouldn’t invoke that right.  And I’ll continue to bitch about this until my lungs collapse.  Every time they announce a remake of a movie I don’t think should be remade I’m going to throw down a similar rant.

C’mon Kelley, I for one have enjoyed the remakes because I am not able to watch old films. I just can’t do it. I only just stomached “Evil Dead” and that was because I was in a huge crowd, old films are so boring to me & these remakes mean I don’t have to see the original (which I realize, you hate).

kelleynotlp1 - 30 June 2009 08:53 AM

It doesn’t matter if anyone agrees with me or not, I am almost always right about this stuff and I will continue to be.

Old-school horror fans annoy me the same as old-school gay people: all they appear to do is complain about things that happen today in their respective worlds and go on about how good the old days were/ how ungrateful ‘youth’ is.

I know I sound like a douchebag, I know I sound like one of those uppity, obnoxious young people who’s all:

“Ewwww, old movies are sh1tty, viva la future”

but I cannot help it, blame modern cinema.

To be fair, I think The Birds can stand to be remade. It’s an incredibly simple premise that can be utilized in countless different ways. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the same story or characters. Any old person could be plopped into the middle of the situation. I only hope that the birds’ sudden violence isn’t overly explained. I little vague hinting here and there might be OK, but if it turns into The Happening… well, that would be bad.

Wasn’t “Kaw” a remake of the birds, basically?

I feel like I go on a big remake rant like every week with my friends but have decided to stop, it’s not working. I understand they are for the younger audience to get introduced to the older movies but some of the movies should just be left alone. Can’t writers come up with different stuff instead of seeing something on TNT one weekend and saying “hey lets remake that”.

Zacery I am way older than you but I used to feel the way you did about older movies except once I got older I realized my tastes changed and I watched all the old movies and really enjoyed them. I think once you get older you will give them a chance and like them.
Example: when I was younger 16-20 or so I would never watch Night of the Living Dead because it was in black and white. Well I finally watched it one day when I was 30 and enjoyed it.

You young whipper snappers with your rock music and ipods. :)

By the way older people are going to talk about younger people the same way for generations and generations to come. Once you become old you will be saying “I can’t believe they did a remake of the remake of Footloose, no one will beat that Jonas Brother as Wren.”

Rock music? What’s that…? Isn’t that, like, off of the 80s?

I know, I’m sure that in twenty years when this “hot, new remake of Final Destination” comes out I’ll be angry….

They’ll probably call it ‘FDination’ because they have to make it hip and trendy.

And I will NEVER watch ‘Night of the Living Dead’. Ever.