10 Terrible Remakes Of Awesome Movies That Almost Happened

Thankfully they never amounted to anything.

Everybody loves a good remake, right? Sorry, what's that? Oh, you don't? Never mind, then. Nothing more perfectly demonstrates Hollywood's current lack of creativity than the onslaught of remakes, reboots and re-imaginings of great films hitting cinemas recently. It seems that the studios would rather just go back to the well and redo something that has been a success in the past, rather than, you know, come up with something original. Sometimes it's hard to blame Hollywood for this. After all, the films they are remaking usually have a built-in audience and are more often than not as successful as the original, if not more so. At the end of the day, there's a bottom line and that bottom is making money. If a studio thinks a remake has a chance of doing decent business, they're going to make it. You just have to accept it and move on. But remakes don't always sit well with fans, or critics for that matter. Generally speaking, they have a reputation for failing to improve upon, do justice to or, worse, for defiling the original film. You only need to look at the reception of Tim Burton's 2001 remake of The Planet Of The Apes or the 1998 version of Psycho for evidence of this. Those were both terrible remakes of great films but, fortunately, Hollywood doesn't always pull through; some proposed remakes thankfully fail to gestate.
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