Today we give you eight movies that could use a remake. With the mini-series remake of Fargo we could see some of these come to fruition. These classics could be brought into the 21st century and made so much more relevant. Sit back and prepare for some movies that could use a retelling.
Back to the Future was released in 1985, with a grand idea as to what the future holds. The years have proven them wrong in so many ways, it would be nice to see a movie based in 1985 with our future. See how Marty and Doc handle the harsh reality of our boring future.
The classic To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the racially tense era of the sixties. It would be good to see it brought into the racially tense era of now, see how Atticus handles the polarizing times we live in.
Casablanca was made about World War II and its affect on everyone. Well we’re not in the 40’s anymore, we’re in the new fangled teens and we’ve got a whole new slew of problems that affect the world. This could be placed in Crimea and deals with a expat American that runs a dive bar. Sounds like box office gold.
The Graduate was very much a product of the 60’s, not a bad thing but it keeps it from being overly relevant to our times. But we’re in the future and have so many different issues, it could deal with Benjamin Braddock not able to get a job after he graduates from college. This could really shine a light to the plight of the millennials.
Some say that Chinatown is timeless, those people may be correct, but dammit if Hollywood could make an even more timeless film. Bring it into the present, get rid of all of that water talk and make it about solar energy – or something along those lines.
Taxi Driver could be remade to focus less on a botched assassination and more on the women that are forced into prostitution by thugs like Harvey Keitel’s Sport. Just make Travis Bickle more likable and less creepy.
Hollywood’s sacred cow has to be Citizen Kane, and once they get over that they could remake this and make it even more exciting. Just let Michael Bay loose on this story and soon you’ll have Charles Foster Kane jumping from an exploding helicopter, everyone knows that explosions equal awesome.
Right?
Paul Newman stars in the classic flick Cool Hand Luke, and he does an amazing job bringing Luke to life. They could make it more palatable to modern audiences by making the story more believable by putting Luke into a real prison, this could be like a vaguely nicer version of Oz or just the male version of Orange is the New Black.
