Hollywood scriptwriters have jumped the shark

[TrooperBari]

OK, I'll admit the thread title is more than a bit of a reach ... but it got your attention, yes?

Inspired by my frenzied attempts to not do any work today and the opening of the Dukes of Hazzard movie, I decided to peruse imdb.com and see what other remakes, sequels, comic book/video game or TV movies were coming down the pipe.

My friends, what I saw was nothing short of a deluge. These are all scheduled for 2006 releases:

Remakes
Rock and Roll High School (directed by Howard Stern)
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (starring Owen Wilson)
Warriors
The Hills Have Eyes
Deathrace 3000 (now we’re remaking Roger Corman flicks?)
Flash Gordon
Logan’s Run (dropping the age from 30 to 21)
Oh, God (starring Ellen DeGeneres as God)
Pink Panther
Police Academy (though they’re keeping Bubba Smith and Michael Winslow)
Kiki’s Delivery Service
The Omen
Porky’s (also directed by Howard Stern)
Revenge of the Nerds

Sequels
Rambo IV
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Road House 2
Rush Hour 3
Santa Clause 3
Scary Movie 4
Sin City 2
Superman Returns (Brandon Routh as Superman, Marlon Brando as Jor-El, Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor)
Terminator 4
Underworld 2
Bambi 2
Basic Instinct 2
The Brazilian Job (Italian Job 2)
Brother Bear 2
Bruce Almighty 2
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
Halloween: Retribution
Hellboy 2
Highlander - The Journey Continues (starring Christopher Lambert AND Adrian Paul)
Hollow Man 2
House of the Dead 2
I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Ice Age 2
Die Hard 4.0
Fast and the Furious 3
Final Destination 3
The Fox and the Hound 2
Garfield 2
Indiana Jones 4
Jurassic Park 4
Kung Pow 2
Like Mike 2
Mission Impossible 3
Mrs. Doubtfire 2 (broke much, Mr. Williams?)
Passion of the Clerks
Pirates of the Caribbean 2
The Punisher 2
X-Men 3

Video Games
Dead or Alive
Metroid
Carmen Sandiego (close enough)
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Tekken
Silent Hill

TV Shows
A-Team
He-Man (directed by John Woo)
I Dream of Jeannie
Dallas
Get Smart (starring Steve Correll)
Miami Vice (starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx)
The Munsters (directed by ... the Wayans Brothers?)

Comic Books
Sub-Mariner
Watchmen
The Flash

Other
The Da Vinci Code

This was just a surface level glance, BTW. I'm sure there are more that I breezed right past.

[Alex_K]

Highlander - The Journey Continues (starring Christopher Lambert AND Adrian Paul)


Arrrggghhhh... Please, make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!!! Why did they have to turn my favorite movie into one of the worst franchises ever? Why??? What did I do to deserve this? WHAT???

[afgrijselijkheid]

this is hardly news, you may as well throw all the copycat "reality" shows on the pile - if people want to know why most of the exciting original screenplays come out as independent films, it is because hollywood execs are misguided pu$$ie$

[Ray Luca]

Secret Life of Walter Mitty (starring Owen Wilson)

Wow Danny Kay was a genius Wilson isn't let's see hom do the "Court Jester"
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Warriors

I liked that dopey movie , but does it deserve to be remade? Once was more then enough.
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Flash Gordon

The original cerial was great. The movie wasn't.
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The Omen

That sounds interesting

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Rambo IV

I wonder who will play Rambo? :-) Stalone is 60 yrs old now.

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Superman Returns (Brandon Routh as Superman, Marlon Brando as Jor-El,

Brando is dead was this his last movie?
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Bambi 2

Really hunters are going to love it :-)

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Basic Instinct 2

Are they bringing back the original actors?

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Highlander - The Journey Continues (starring Christopher Lambert AND Adrian Paul)

No shiite I would see that.
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Die Hard 4.0

No shiite again never get enough of die hard.

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The Fox and the Hound 2

Took my daughter to see the original always forget the name of the fox and the hound get them confued if i recall.

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TV Shows
A-Team

Never liked it throw grenades and fore automatic weapons and they never killed any one :-)
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I Dream of Jeannie

I lked Jeannie not the show her :-)

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[Ray Luca]

Arrrggghhhh... Please, make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!!! Why did they have to turn my favorite movie into one of the worst franchises ever? Why??? What did I do to deserve this? WHAT???

Those two guys were good hard part is to get a bad guy like the Kurgan. loved the Kurgan. To bad the Kurgan had to become a prison guard in shawshank.

[Belgian guy]

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time


This one might not totally suck. Jordan Mechner is responsible for the screenplay. If he is able to get some of the fairy tale atmosphere of the POP series into the movie, it might turn out to be a quite enjoyable, old fashioned, adventure flick.

[bungadiri]

this is hardly news, you may as well throw all the copycat "reality" shows on the pile - if people want to know why most of the exciting original screenplays come out as independent films, it is because hollywood execs are misguided pu$$ie$
While I agree with the main gist of this thread I have heard (on the radio) that the driving force behind all the reality TV shows is precisely that they're cheap--execs don't have to pay writers for scripts.

[quentinc]

You know originality has dissapeared when they're doing a sequel to a remake (Brazilian/Italian Job).

[BayernWake]

You know originality has dissapeared when they're doing a sequel to a remake (Brazilian/Italian Job).

I was about to say the same thing.

[Freestyle2000]

You know originality has dissapeared when they're doing a sequel to a remake (Brazilian/Italian Job).

Yeah!

Sincerely,

George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and the rest of Ocean's 12

[Ghost]

The funny thing is you can get crap movies like this, and you can get prestige films, and you can get still kinda get art films. What you can't get anymore, i.e. what's really missing, is the adult cop drama -- that movie from the late 80s that has a somewhat anonymous director with Ellen Barkin as the female lead. Like The Big Easy. Or Someone to Watch Over Me. A woman witnesses a murder. The cop has to find the killer and slowly falls in love with the woman. Just nowhere to be seen in the marketplace, because they're not shooting for that demographic anymore. Just shooting for that young, obsessive, single loser who will go and see the same comic book film played thirty times with different mutants.

Hopefully, this summer is the tipping point for the remake, TV show, and comic book movies. The industry has so focused on those three that it has driven off a lot of customers. I think their current economic model on what films to make is breaking down, and hopefully some creativity will come out of it. There are a sh**load of creative young directors who could be making interesting movies instead of, say, Batman Begins or The Hulk.

[bungadiri]

The funny thing is you can get crap movies like this, and you can get prestige films, and you can get still kinda get art films. What you can't get anymore, i.e. what's really missing, is the adult cop drama -- that movie from the late 80s that has a somewhat anonymous director with Ellen Barkin as the female lead. Like The Big Easy. Or Someone to Watch Over Me. A woman witnesses a murder. The cop has to find the killer and slowly falls in love with the woman. Just nowhere to be seen in the marketplace, because they're not shooting for that demographic anymore. Just shooting for that young, obsessive, single loser who will go and see the same comic book film played thirty times with different mutants.
Toss in Witness.

Or how about a suspense/action film that a) has the characters engaged in action on a scale that doesn't involve the end of life as we know it and b) isn't computer enhanced (come to think of it that's one of the things I liked about The Bourne Identity) and c) has some character development in it.

[CHICO13]

They're going to remake Warriors? Heathen bastards.... :mad:

[jec1]

i thought devils rejects was an original movie good to see rob zombie put forward his distaste for hollywood but i agree hollywood scripts are sinking fast and thats because we got no talent writers we need more young writers.

[MikeLastort2]

Personally, I'm looking forward to Rock And Roll High School. Stern is a big Ramones fan, and he and Joey were friends. I think he'll do a good job of a remake.

[afgrijselijkheid]

While I agree with the main gist of this thread I have heard (on the radio) that the driving force behind all the reality TV shows is precisely that they're cheap--execs don't have to pay writers for scripts.


very true... but if arrested development was a top 5 show, every network would come out with a handheld multi-cam crazy family non-sitcom

sheep baby, sheep

[spejic]

The Da Vinci CodeThe movie industry has had a long history of making movies from books, so I don't see a problem with this.
Garfield 2Why? The first was already a massive bomb. So much for Hollywood being a liberal bastion.

Please read this (http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2005/07/25/bomb-sniffing-dogs-discover-garfield-2/) to understand the danger this poses to humanity.
Kung Pow 2Oh no.

[Ombak]

The world will only end, however, when a sequel to "Jingle All The Way" reaches the big screen.

[bungadiri]

The world will only end, however, when a sequel to "Jingle All The Way" reaches the big screen.
You've really got to worry about the sort of person who would even think such a thing, much less put it into words.

[Ghost]

The funny thing is that this year may turn out to be an incredibly good year for creative movies by the end. The last couple of years have been a bit bland, particularly last year. But with this fall's releases added, The Constant Gardener, The New World, Last Days, Broken Flowers, 2046, maybe the Fountain, etc. There are a lot of films this fall I'm looking forward to, which I can't say about last year. Throw in some already released films -- Saraband, My Summer of Love, Howl's Moving Castle, Oldboy, (like 2046, kinda this year). I think this has the potential to be a pretty impressive year creatively. But the Hollywood films this year, particularly this summer, have been dreadful.