10 Announced Movie Remakes That COULD Be Great

8. Cujo

When all the best Stephen King stories were made into movies, it was just a matter of time before Hollywood started remaking them en masse. 

And next up on the block is Cujo - King's novel about a rabid, murderous dog which was first adapted into a film in 1983.

Yet the response to Cujo has remained firmly mixed in the four-plus decades since its came out, many praising Dee Wallace's performance and the film's overall intensity, while taking issue with its stodgier, less-interesting dramatic subplots.

And while it'd be easy to sniff at Netflix's recently announced remake, many heads were turned when Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Mother!) was said to be circling the project. 

Aronofsky is the furthest thing from a gun-for-hire filmmaker imaginable, and suggests we won't be getting an also-ran Cujo remake but instead a full-throated, deeply visceral new take.

Plus with a director like Aronofsky at the helm, it's probable he'd defer to the bleaker ending of King's novel, which was predictably sanitised for the 1983 film.