I own this movie and I understand it is a classic. I like this movie. But while I was watching this I thought it would be really good as a remake. It would be way creepier with gore and stuff now. I mean the Bat rips out his victims throats. I think it would be fantastic.
I was thinking about that the other night, someone once asked what it would be like if they remade the 1926 version. There's no doubt to my mind they would screw it up, and if they were to remake this version, they would without a doubt screw it up. We all know how the horror movies of today work, you got the stupid teens and the drugs and alcohol and sex and they go into overkill on the gore. I say they've done the movie 4 times over, let it rest peacefully, but if they were to remake it, then do it right and do it with some class. Not like the crap of horror movies today.
shareI think if it wound up in the hands of someone who cared about the silent age, and the Vincent Price age, it would be treated with care and respect. Someone like Tim Burton, perhaps, as he has always been fond of Vincent Price, so who better to do the job than him?...so long as Depp stayed out of it...
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I can agree with that, unless they could fix Depp to play straight to the Warner role, they'd have to do something with his hair, deepen his voice...
Then again, seeing how Burton handled Batman, and Batman was allright, but it was not all that spectacular...I say if the movie HAD to be remade, trust it to somebody who holds the current Bat movies sacred...hell, I'd do it myself if I had the means...actually I figure somebody will try it sooner or later, so I'm kinda reworking the last version to a slightly different story...if I knew anything about writing scripts I'd be working on a potential idea for a remake that could be done right.
As much as I hate remakes in general, I think with the right director (not Uwe Boll or Michael Bay) and the right cast (not Nicolas Cage or Halle Berry), this could be excellent remake material. This 1959 version is itself the third version of "The Bat."
I'd love to see David Cronenberg sink his claws into this one, maybe with Julianne Moore in Agnes Moorhead's role and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Vincent Price's role.
Cronenberg? The guy who gives us a man stabbing himself through the back of the head with scissors and a guy whose head explodes? No offense but the idea of a good remake for this movie is for it to not be overly violent or disgusting. This movie today would warrant a PG rating and I say it's possible for it to happen again while maintaining a genuine creepy atmosphere around it that can terrify the audiences. Because this movie has been done three times already, and each time there was violence, people were shot, strangled, in this one people's throats are cut but we don't see any of that, there's enough violence to go around in a movie like this without requiring anything that could warrant a high rating.
shareWell, Cronenberg did improve on "The Fly" in my opinion, and not all of his films are quite as over the top as the examples you mentioned. But I agree that they got it right in the 1959 version, and this plot seems better suited to an earlier era, so I'm fine with Hollywood leaving well enough alone here. I only wish this film were better known by today's audiences.
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