Red Dawn, Straw Dogs, Total Recall, Evil Dead, Halloween, Carrie, Fright Night. It’s well-known and acknowledged by now that Hollywood has been relying more and more heavily on reboots, remakes and sequels in the last few years. Many see this as a serious dearth of creativity and one of the most disappointing consequences of the studios’ increasingly risk-averse business mentality. This is all basically true. For every one decent to good remake or sequel (Dredd, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) there are five, ten or twenty terrible and misguided ones.
Assuming that this trend doesn’t end any time in the near future, we can expect to start seeing more contemporary movies being remade over the coming decades. Which movies will get this treatment next? There’s no way to know, but here are ten that could very easily become victims over a long enough timeline.
10. Fight Club
Out of all the late ’90s movies that are just too young to get remade, Fight Club is probably one of the first that will pop up down the line as it nears its 25th or 30th birthday. With the perfect blend of too-cool cynicism and one of the best plot twists in the history of fiction, it will be more than a challenge to keep anyone away from this one down the line.
While not terribly successful upon its first release, Fight Club has grown to be one of the most ubiquitous cult movies in almost every social group. It has become so popular that one could argue that it has ceased to even be a cult movie. Regardless of semantics, this is a movie that has been built up to an almost legendary status for people in our generation and any future executives looking to make some quick money off of an iconic and culturally significant story could do worse than to start here.
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I imagine there’ll be a remake for both Ghostbusters and Breakfast Club, and the inevitable return of Batman – but let’s hope they leave the sacred cows of Fight Club and The Matrix alone.
I agree with you on pretty much all points. I wouldn’t want to see Fight Club or the Matrix, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened.
The Matrix in 48 FPS 3D would be a sight to see. The fact that it hasn’t happened yet amazes me. Imagine the weapon rack scene and the bullet-time sequences! I was hoping for a remake of Top Gun. Tom Cruise would be a cool cameo appearance, as well as introducing some new eye candy for the ladies, as well as appealing to males with their guns and planes and whatnot. It will hit so many demographics that i’m sure it will be a blockbuster.
Yeah, my bets on remaking The Breakfast Club in the vein of American Pie or Project X.
I wouldn’t count on them remaking Harry Potter any time soon because I just don’t think J.K.Rowling would allow another series on films based on her books to be made so soon after theres already been such a hugely successful one already.
Sorry for Harry Potter to be remade I think your looking at at least another 40 slash 50 years before they even attempt to dramitise the books again.
(They’ll probably have to wait till J.K.Rowling dies before ne films even become an option.)
I find it hard to believe that Rowling would turn down absolutely insane amounts of money in 20 years because it’s ‘too soon.’
In all fairness to the movies that already exist, they’re good in their own right, but they’re hardly a definitive take on the source material.
The directors were all over the place and the tone shifted accordingly.
There’s really nothing sacred about them.
Who owns the rights, to Back to the Future as said he wont let them remake it…Hope no Harry potter remake, the last few sucked
Fight Club should NEVER be touched. A classic that stands on it’s own. The Matrix already has too many additions. It will be interesting to see what happens to Batman next as the last series was definitely epic. It would be cool if Zimmeckes (sp?) opened rights to Back to the Future but part of the charm with those films was what they could do with technology at the time they were made. A modern version could be really cool though. :)
I was thinking in maybe about 20 to 30 years they might remake the Lord of the Rings trilogy, what do you think about this?
I was thinking of that. It’s certainly possible.
The truth is that there are a ton of movies out there that will probably get remade as long as the studios don’t give up on them altogether. I wanted to try to pick the ones I had the most to say about for this article.