It's like I'm 14 again!

[Man Mountain]

I went and watched Horrible Bosses tonight. Very, very funny! But before the movie, we got trailers for two remakes of movies that are straight out of my teen years.

Footloose! I kid you not. They've remade Footloose! Is it just me or does this look like a damn near shot for shot remake at that?! Well, except for the "hip hop" dance sequence...

Too bad they didn't get Kevin Bacon to play the John Lithgow part.

Then the next trailer was for the remake of a movie I quite enjoyed as a teen. Although, this version seems like it has a somewhat darker edge to it than the fairly campy one I so enjoyed. I do like the cast they have for this remake. I have to admit that I'll probably watch this.

Fright Night

 

[uncleg]

Like you were 14 again....................

 

[Big Dog Striker]

Straw Dogs is coming in a few months. The last one decades back used to have a young Dustin Hoffman and English beauty Susan George.

 

[newtothis]

Nicely done, uncleg! Who didn't have a crush on Winnie watching that show!

Like you were 14 again....................

 

[future canadian]

that looks like a great trailer for Straw Dogs and I don't care for remake (like Footloose!)

 

[steven69]

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6631/danicamckellar2.jpg

Nicely done, uncleg! Who didn't have a crush on Winnie watching that show!

.... And still has a crush

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Are they still using the rockin Kenny Loggins song? Or is gonna be covered?

Nickleback would be the perfect choice because you couldn't choose a douchier band.

Julianne Hough or Lori Singer (circa 1984)? Who would you choose?

 

[Devils_Advocate]

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6631/danicamckellar2.jpg

.... And still has a crush

Madeline Adams / Julie Condra was always my favorite:

Miss White / Wendel Meldrum - Hottest Teacher EVER!

And Alice Pedermeir / Lindsay Sloane

Ted from HIMYM really is working through the WY cast...

 

[WrongMan]

I love the girl next door type, brunettes are my kryptonite. I have a theory why I like brunettes over blondes.

It starts and ends with my first crush Winnie Cooper.

Fright Night is one great movie. I can watch it over and over again. I wonder why they are not showing any of Peter Vincent in the trailer for the remake. He was one of the best parts in the original.

 

[Man Mountain]

Are they still using the rockin Kenny Loggins song? Or is gonna be covered?

You can actually hear it in the background of the opening shots in the trailer. Sounds like the original to me from what little you can hear of it. Not sure how prominent it'll be in the movie itself though.

Julianne Hough or Lori Singer (circa 1984)? Who would you choose?

Julianne Hough gets my vote

Fright Night is one great movie. I can watch it over and over again. I wonder why they are not showing any of Peter Vincent in the trailer for the remake. He was one of the best parts in the original.

While it does look like the remake will have some tongue in cheek humour, it also looks like they don't wanna go for the camp of the original. I think it would be hard to keep that character without embracing the campiness.

 

[WrongMan]

While it does look like the remake will have some tongue in cheek humour, it also looks like they don't wanna go for the camp of the original. I think it would be hard to keep that character without embracing the campiness.

I think the trailer is playing games and not showing the humour. There are many actors who normally play funny roles in the movie. Also Peter Vincent is in the movie, he is played by David Tennant (Doctor Who).

 

[Man Mountain]

Also Peter Vincent is in the movie, he is played by David Tennant (Doctor Who).

When I read this, I got very excited and did a little digging. This movie just got about 10x cooler in my opinion. Thanks for the info! Based on that, I was able to find the following:

http://www.slashfilm.com/fright-night-trailer-2-introduces-david-tennant-peter-vincent/

‘Fright Night’ Trailer #2 Introduces David Tennant as Peter Vincent
Posted on Monday, June 6th, 2011 by Russ Fischer

The first trailer for Craig Gillespie‘s remake of Fright Night did a pretty good job of getting across the basics: Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin), his mom (Toni Collette) and his new girlfriend (Imogen Poots) have to deal with a little problem when a vampire (Colin Farrell) moves in next door.

But there was a lot the trailer didn’t touch on, with one character in particular being almost totally MIA. That was Peter Vincent, which Roddy McDowell played perfectly as an aging horror TV host in the original, and here has been reimagined as a Vegas stage magician played by David Tennant. A new trailer arrived last night via the MTV Movie Awards, and it gives a good look at the new Peter Vincent. It gives away one tiny little character reveal, so if you don’t want to know any more than you already do about the film, be warned.

There’s a lot of other stuff in here, too: the fact that Charley has started to turn into a popular kid at school; quite a few hints at the scope of the film’s action; a great look at the more monstrous form of Colin Farrell’s vampire; and an explosive workaround to the old idea that vampires must be invited into a home before they can feed on the occupants. I liked the script and the first trailer, and this new dose of footage gives me more optimism that the new Fright Night might be both sufficiently different from the original, and entertaining in its own right.

And while the fact of the film being in 3D is a bit worrisome, because so much of the action takes place in the dark or at night, we might take heart in the fact that the film scored an R rating – no PG-13 horror this time out.

Fright Night opens in 3D on August 19.

 

[Man Mountain]

Dirty Dancing remake in the works now too!

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/dirty-dancing-remake-causes-controversy-155417756.html

‘Dirty Dancing’ Remake Causes Controversy on the Web
By Claudine Zap | Movie Talk – Wed, Aug 10, 2011 11:54 AM EDT

The dance movie from 1987 starred the late Patrick Swayze as dance instructor Johnny Castle, and a very young Jennifer Grey who played Baby, a guest at a summer resort who falls for teacher.

The story was set in the Catskills in the 1960s. But the movie has since become a timeless classic: The cheesy dance numbers, Patrick Swayze's smooth moves -- on and off the dance floor -- and his unforgettable line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" cemented the film in the memories of a generation of kids from the 1980s.

So it's not surprising that a storm of controversy would quickly follow plans to remake the movie. Searches on the Web immediately spiked on "dirty dancing remake" and "dirty dancing remake cast."

Fans of the original bemoaned the newson Yahoo!. Typical comments: "Please do not remake this movie!" And this: "There is no one that could replace Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey and I mean no one." And a third: "There will never be another 'Dirty Dancing' as good as the original. I think it will do a great dis-service to Patrick Swayze by remaking this film. You can't improve on perfection." Another called the original an "American icon of romance."

But not everyone sounded so incensed. For one, "Dancing with the Stars" judge Carrie Ann Inaba jumped at the chance to have her say on casting, suggesting Jennifer Grey's pro partner from season 10, Derek Hough. And for Baby: Her vote is for Lea Michele from "Glee."

But perhaps the most unlikely show of support came from the original Baby, Jennifer Grey. The now 51-year-old actress and season 10 "DWTS" winner took to Twitter to voice her approval: "I love @Kennyortega and trust that he will do something special #DirtyDancingRemake."

Like we said: Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

 

[Man Mountain]

In theaters today!

 

[Big Dog Striker]

So the best sci-fi movie ever made, BLADE RUNNER, is finally coming back with Ridley Scott directing. Awesome!! :clap2:

 

[Unpossible]

The only remake I'm looking forward to!!

Straw Dogs is going to fucking suck!! Seriously, what asshole thought it would be a good idea to remake a Peckinpah movie with cyclops!? String that retard up!!

 

[knight rider]

Like you were 14 again....................

Ahaha this is awesome! The wonders years was wicked and I was actually depressed after watching the final episode haha.

 

[knight rider]

I heard they are going to remake dirty dancing too but I really don't thing you can top swayze! I mean he was a cooler in road house!...how do you beat a guy like that haha. But seriously swayze was pretty cool in my books.

 

[Big Dog Striker]

Straw Dogs is going to fucking suck!! Seriously, what asshole thought it would be a good idea to remake a Peckinpah movie with cyclops!? String that retard up!!

Something to do with the suits in the studio who believes in the consumer spending power of the baby boomer target market. :nod:

 

[Man Mountain]

Straw Dogs is going to fucking suck!! Seriously, what asshole thought it would be a good idea to remake a Peckinpah movie with cyclops!? String that retard up!!

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/ton...bunch-while-revving-hells-angels-as-next-pic/

I look forward to your comments regarding Tony Scott wanting to remake Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch'

Tony Scott Boarding 'The Wild Bunch' While Revving 'Hell's Angels' As Next Pic
By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 6:00pm EDT

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline revealed this morning that Ridley Scott was returning to his sci-fi classic Blade Runner. His Scott Free partner and brother Tony Scott is also getting serious about a new version of a movie classic. Scott is in talks with Warner Bros to direct a reboot of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah-directed The Wild Bunch. This film becomes one of three or so that Scott is most eager to direct as his follow-up to the Denzel Washington-Chris Pine action film Unstoppable.

Scott's next assignment will be Hell's Angels, though its timing will depend on whether he gets the actor he wants to play gang leader Sonny Barger. I'm told that he wants Jeff Bridges. They've not met face to face yet, because Bridges is right now touring his self-titled musical album that he recorded after he won the Oscar playing Bad Blake in Crazy Heart. Once Bridges gets back to film work, he's booked to star with Ryan Reynolds in Universal's R.I.P.D. and Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures' The Seventh Son. If Scott has his heart set on Bridges and the actor says yes, Hell's Angels won't get underway until next spring or later. Fox 2000's Hell's Angels is set around the Laughlin riots of 2001 when the Angels were caught up in a war with rival gang The Mongols. The drama revolves around a friendship that develops between Barger and a young drifter mechanic with a gift for fixing motorcycles. The script is in by Scott Frank, who did numerous rewrites of an earlier draft by Stephen Gaghan.

Scott is also making a high priority of the reinvention of his 1986 Tom Cruise hit Top Gun. I'm not sure where this leaves the remake of Potzdamer Platz and an adaptation of the John Grisham novel The Associate, two films that were on Scott's front burner.

The original The Wild Bunch was about an aging group of outlaws that try for one last score on the Texas-Mexico border in 1913, as the Old West changes around them. The original starred William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and Warren Oates. The studio has tried for years to get this going, once getting a script from Training Day's David Ayer. It's early days on the project, but Scott and producer Jerry Weintraub have a take for the movie and Brian Helgeland will draft it. Scott is repped by CAA.