10 Films Hollywood Should Actually Remake

Barb Wire (1996), much like many sci-fi films from the 90s, has surpassed its expiration date: with a narrative set within 2017, a year that's now been and gone, Barb Wire no longer holds up particularly well as a film "set in the future", a sadly regrettable consequence of any film aiming to be futuristic.

However, the fetishised and grandiose nature of Barb Wire is still as intriguing now as it once was and it seems as if it's just sitting there waiting to be remade. Like Land of the Dead (2005) or Thelma & Louise (1991), it could do with a contemporary spin, as Barb Wire's main setting (a nightclub in what's considered to be the "last free city" in the USA) deals with the fragile nature of civil war, a country folding in on itself due to socio-political divisions and ultra-violent weaponry in the hands of the wrong people.

Who better to tackle such a task than George Miller? The man took the Mad Max franchise and gave us Mad Max: Fury Road (2016), a film that isn't even particularly about the character popularised by Mel Gibson, but strays into an empowering representation of post-apocalyptic women dealing with power-hungry men and a society trying to survive in a dying landscape.

As for who would play the titular blonde bomb-shell, Margot Robbie could easily stand in. She's an actress who has proven time and time again that she has the acting chops for a role like this.