I have wanted a remake for this ever since I read the book and found out how much deeper and more interesting it was when compared to the movie. My one fear has been that it would be done by a group of hacks, but with the people who did "Benjamin Button" behind this, I can not honestly see this remake being bad, or doing bad.
Whether or not you liked Burton's Chocolate Factory, it was far truer to the book than the original. Still I like both versions, and it could prove to be the same in this case.
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F*cking awesome. I feel the same way about the 80's movie, it was a disgrace to the book. The book wasn't nearly as childish and cheesey. The book was pretty philosophical and epic, I hope that this comes true in the remake. BTW they need to make two or three movies to really show the depth of the book.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one supporting this. Most people are just flying off the handle with "Not another remake!", or "This will ruin my childhood!"They're completely overreacting before they even see a trailer.
I could definately see them wanting to make a trilogy, just because of the marketability, but I think that it could be easily done in just two movies. The original was 1:52 in length and covered up to half-way through the book, and if you add "nuances" it would probably be just 2:10 at the longest. So two movies should do just fine.
As far as the music, the Limahl theme for it, while I like it a lot, is dated and doesn't have anything to do with the actual story, so it can go. The "Falcor Flying" theme MUST stay though, because it is iconic, captivating, thrilling, and just fits the feeling of everything so well.
Okay, on the subject of actors/actresses, I could definately see them going for the "fresh face" approach with most of the younger characters, but in the case of Coreander and Gmork, I think they should bring in a seasoned veteran.
Who would you have?
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There is an english version of the book. I'm glad there is an English version because I wouldn't have been able to read it otherwise!
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The original is one of my favorite films of all time. I can already assume that the remake will probably have solid special effects but miss the personal story and the entire point, as remakes usually do.
Since their entire point for making this is to extol the "nuances" from the book that were left out of the original movie, it's actually going to further the personal story and point more than the original did!
Plus, one of the original's producers will be returning for this, and like I said it's from the people who did "Benjamin Button" which was also an adaptation [an exceptionally well done one from what I've heard].
I honestly have more faith in this remake than any other I have been/currently am hyped for.
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That's the kinda pretentious mumbo jumbo they say about every remake, and then they always end up doing the opposite.
A producer returning from the original means nothing. Many crap remakes have someone coming back from the original and it still sucks, because a producer isn't the one who is mostly responsible for the quality, it has to be a perfect unified vision between all involved.
It could be good if they get a solid director. If they got Fincher or something then I'd be pretty excited, other than that I'll remain highly skeptical.
I understand a good producer doesn't equal a good movie, but a producer can have a lot of power in the movie making process. For example, I've heard that at 20th Century Fox, their producers are pretty tight and make changes to the movies all of the time, even though the creative direction should be in the directors hands.
While this is WB, not Fox, I'm sure the reason why they brought one of the original producers back was to ensure that the remake didn't lose any of the originals "feel" which made it iconic.
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The 80's movie was a disgrace to the book, period. Anybody who read and loved the book would realize what I mean. I enjoy the 80's movie still, to a certain degree, because it's nostalgic value and it's music. As a movie, not comparing it to the book, it was a nice fantasy film. Unfortunately the book was just to great and epic to be compared to the extremely childish presentation of the two movies. Think of all the adventures left out, all the emotions and all of beautiful mindscapes the book gave the readers. The first movie did a decent (to be nice) job of covering about 1/3 of the book. The second movie IMO was just plain out horrible. I really am looking forward to this movie and I really hope that they capture the complexity and depth of the book (which neither movie cam even CLOSE to doing). As long as they try to stay true to the book they can't go wrong.
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I don't know, I think the second movie included a lot of the ideas of the second half of the book, what with him losing his memories etc. I didn't think it was nearly as good as the first, but they at least tried to take their direction from the book.
Agreed. The book makes so much more sense than the movie when you think about it. It makes more sense for Bastian to scream at Ygramul than at Morla. That scene always confused me. Artax's death made more sense when he could actually tell Atreyu how he was feeling.
Granted, things like Ygramul would have been extremely difficult back then with their technology. Still the movie lost a lot of the books messages, and this couldn't be more poignant than in the scene where Gmork is describing to Atreyu what the Nothing is, and how it works.
Bardock42, yes the the 2nd movie did at least take its direction from the 2nd half of the book, but everything was presented even more poorly than it was in the 1st movie.
to actually translate the whole book into a movie it would have to be split into parts. I think the first movie would have to end around the same point as the original movie. it would go likethis; Bastian and the Empress are talking after he has given her her new name, and Bastian makes his first wish for the forest, then the camera would pan back from his amazed face and show the forest growing exponentially. The a narrarator would say "So Bastian had made his first wish, and there would be many more wishes yet to follow, and more adventures in the land of Fantasia. But that is another story, and will be told another time."
Or something like that.
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