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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to star.
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If this remake happens there is no way this will capture the magic of the Carpenter film. They'd be better off trying to make it it's own shitty thing instead. Hopefully, they toss Carpenter some sort of bullshit executive producer title so he can make a little money on this.
You'd figure by now that Hollywood would have realized that remakes almost never work. Given the success of Fury Road....give Carpenter 100 million, cast Kurt Russell and tell him to go to town. As long as Carpenter writes it, scores, directs it, jerks off to it, and does whatever the hell else he normally does...I'd be in.
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That said, it's worth remembering that sometimes a remake can actually be better than the original. One of Carpenter's best movies was a re-make that happened to hew more closely to the original story than the first movie could manage.
And just a random fun fact for John Carpenter fans: The Ghosts of Mars was originally titled Escape from Mars. It was going to be the third Snake Plissken movie, but the studio was disappointed by the lousy box office on Escape from L.A. So changes were made, and Snake was replaced by Desolation Williams, played by Ice Cube. Carpenter didn't make another movie for nearly a decade after that.
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Star Wars inspired by Flash Gordon or Indiana Jones inspired by things like The Naked Jungle or The Secret of the Inca's, or Firefly being inspired by Star Wars (Han Solo more specifically) ... that's what should happen. This remake thing is shit.
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I like the Rock fine, but not sure this is the right vehicle for him. I mean, sure, Kurt had some muscles, but he still kind of had that 'everyman' look. So, you could buy him being in over his head.
I'm not sure the man mountain known as The Rock is going to be able to sell me on that same vibe. Plus, I seriously doubt they frame the film where he's the sidekick like the original did. I guess it's possible though.
(Didn't know that about Ghost of Mars. I'll need to watch it now.)
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I would almost pay to have them NOT make it on a Kickstarter.
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