Remake

I agree, but if they do I would hope them to keep it faithful to the book. It's a great story that doesn't need "adaptation" or "simplification" for the big screen.

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this is one film they should remake and Peter Jackson is the man for the job

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well...i'm glad to see this "remake" topic...i've been thinking so long that this story is literary begging to become one of the best science-fiction movies.
The story predispose for stunning special effects.And yes the movie should stick to the novel and be English. I'd like to see the meteorite rain and London centre full of desperate blind people...One thing is for sure...main personages should be formed very carefully...

if this movie is ever "updated" or remade i hope to everything it's based on the book. i have never seen the movie, i look for it everywhere i go, but the book is absolutely one of my favorite books ever. i get the feeling this is one of those crapped 60s horror flicks, where the book is so much more than horror or sci-fi, it's scary because it can happen. in the movie, from what i read here, the triffids come down with the meteors. one of the best parts of the book is that triffids were already here. that man helped them prosper. that's one of the scariest ideas in the book. and that should stay

THIS WAS A FUN MOVIE WHEN IT WAS FIRST MADE. WITH THE CURRENT ADVANCES IN SPECIAL EFFECTS IT WOULD BE A GREAT REMAKE!

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I'm a young, ambitious filmmaker myself and making Day of the Triffids into a movie has long been a dream of mine. The fact is, both adaptations leave something to be desired, the film adaptation is a complete hack job of a brilliant novel and the BBC version just doesn't have a big enough budget to fully realize the story.
If I make the film, I want to film it in the UK and New Zealand and will try and get Weta (the FX company that did Lord of the Rings) onboard to design and create the Triffids. I'm still sort of brainstorming about how I will go through with the project (if it gets made, that is). It will be very faithful to the novel, though I will have to change and add a few things to make the film successful, namely moving the story to modern times and adding in a scene showing the Triffids' origin. I still have not figured out how I am going to have the Triffids created, to deviate from the book or not. An early idea was to have them created as weapons by the Germans or Japanese to use against the Allied Forces and I've also considered tying their creation in with the War on Terror, but I likely will use the original Cold War-related concept. The story, however, will have to be moved to modern times for audiences to take the story seriously. One of my favorite aspects of the book is how graphic and frightening an account of the apocalpypse it is, I plan to translate that to screen, with chaotic scenes of the blind rioting (filmed with handheld cameras to make it more jarring) and horrifying scenes of dead, fly covered bodies lying in the streets. And the film will also pack quite a few scares as well via the Triffids and their lashing stingers. If I am able to realize my vision, this could be very good film.
If the film were to made today, the best bet to adapt the book faitfully would certainly be Peter Jackson.