Not just Hollywood out of ideas....
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/37561/-das-boot-remake-in-the-works
This needs to NOT be made at all! >:(
HT to BGG
Booooo!
Don't do it!!!
I'd be most concerned with someone attempting to revise it for modern crowds, or adding some stupid plot to it.
It's not about art, expression, or giving people a sense of the horrors of war anymore. It's about $$$$$$.
Since this is a German production, hopefully they'll shy away from putting Ben Affleck or other losers into this, and keep romance sub-plots out. If an American studio had its hands on this, though, look for it to suck even harder than Pearl Harbor wrapped in Gigli.
David Hasselhof has been cast.
I don't care if they get Uwe Boll to direct it. Wait - they probably will. :buck2:
If Hollywood wants to remake old hits, why not an american submarine movie?
Run Silent, Run Deep was good, and a hit.
Course, the author, Ned Beach, hated the changes Hollywood made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R-XrouvPbk
Yuk!
Next they are going to remake "The Cruel Sea" with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise ..... the horror!
Dan
I hope it's a wacky comedy with an all female cast.
Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on June 26, 2015, 08:26:17 PM
I hope it's a wacky comedy with an all female cast.
But ONLY if they have an ethnically diverse crew.
Can Kellie's Heroines be far off?
...what we witness are the last convulsion of the 'watching really great movies in the multiplex cinema'-epoch.
(its like watching the last 'silent movies' in the late 20ies , before technology moved on )
the Hollywood financiers want cash cows and minimized risks in a world of other growing entertainment opportunities for the (dumb) masses.
(especially games, and here especially those played on consoles... i have to admit, that after playing Witcher3 on a 2days-in-possession GTX 970 i would not spend time or money or burden to visit a multiplex just to see a half-assed probably -directed destroyed by U.Boll- Witcher3 movie... well, if Peter Jackson jumps on Witcher franchise with HDR-style and especially that budget, i reconsider).
Movies also get replaced by high quality series, and those get streamed on demand by former cable provider directly over the net. and people will tend to more and more watch at home on their growing in size big screen or a projector (or some future 'oculus' item) alone or with a couple of well-assorted friends ... and not with a whole shitload of loud assholes in a theater crowd, where the extra tall guy in the seat before always blocking the view and the bully guy in the seat behind is kicking in your back out of excitement or just his brattishness, and always one neighbour in your row constantly crunching nachos soaked with a dip, that stinks like a rotten corpse, a goo that could have been used as a replacement for trench gas in WK1 if Germany had the decayed Jalapeño handy...
so we will only have remain the annual 'teen-movie' like "Dude, Where's My Car?"-flicks, the teen-horror, and teen horror-mocking movies (like Screen derivatives), the Comic-book adaptions (...it will all end with a terrible Marvel vs DC universe shoot-out flick, like Alien vs Predator;-) ) , and the remakes and followups of franchise that had worked -at least once- in the past.
yesterday i saw "A Fistful of Dollars" from 1964, aired as a homage to Clint Eastwood ... well, that was a movie!
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 26, 2015, 11:02:35 PM
Can Kellie's Heroines be far off?
Where Chihuahuas Dare will be made first
If the Germans are making it I'm fine with that..they can do good war films..look at Downfall and the old Stalingrad movie. Now if it was Hollywood I'd despair.
How about a re-make starring J Lo? "Das Butt". :2funny:
Quote from: MikeGER on June 27, 2015, 01:51:38 AM
...what we witness are the last convulsion of the 'watching really great movies in the multiplex cinema'-epoch.
(its like watching the last 'silent movies' in the late 20ies , before technology moved on )
the Hollywood financiers want cash cows and minimized risks in a world of other growing entertainment opportunities for the (dumb) masses.
so we will only have remain the annual 'teen-movie' like "Dude, Where's My Car?"-flicks, the teen-horror, and teen horror-mocking movies (like Screen derivatives), the Comic-book adaptions (...it will all end with a terrible Marvel vs DC universe shoot-out flick, like Alien vs Predator;-) ) , and the remakes and followups of franchise that had worked -at least once- in the past.
yesterday i saw "A Fistful of Dollars" from 1964, aired as a homage to Clint Eastwood ... well, that was a movie!
THIS! O0 This is why I have fallen in love with TCM's Summer of Darkness. Watching those old movies from the 40s and 50s has been a revelation to me. As I wrote in the other thread, even the "B" movie, "Poverty Row" cheap flicks from that era contain a quality that is almost entirely absent from contemporary cinema. The writing was solid, the dialogue witty and sharp (when people spoke they actually said something other than just restating the plot with profanity), and the acting classy. There was a good quote I came across the other day the encapsulates the then and now of cinema:
"It is common to bemoan the loss of the studio system. To be sure, there was a level of creativity, a sense of craftsmanship and style, which went along with it, and that we are sorely in need of today. On the other hand, the system tended to flatten everything out to a common denominator - the need to churn out product that was acceptable to the mass audience made interesting experiments such as Citizen Kane rare events indeed. In this respect, the studio era doesn't differ that much from today, except that the supposed profile of the mass audience being catered to is now a good twenty years younger, and apparently illiterate."
Yip.
Watching this series on our Australian SBS for free atm. No idea why government channels pay for stuff like this. But I don't mind my dollars spent on this. For once I get to watch something that some of the rest of the world has not got yet.
So far it seems the story is 80% females on land and 20% bitchy guys at sea. But I will keep at it because whatever we get now will be new age anyways.