Possible remake...

Nope. Best to just leave it alone.

If they're going to do that then Hollywood might as well remake "Gone With The Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Citizen Kane", "Casablanca", "Birth of a Nation", etc. Besides, Stone is past his prime.

C'mon, Hollywood. Don't tell me you guys don't know how to make a decent, watchable movie anymore.

Let's hope not! Everything Oliver Stone touches becomes a conspiracy theory, drug induced bore of a film. It would be a shame to have a great cold war thriller like Ice Station Zebra remade by such a two dimensional director who taints his films with presonal political undertones. I tend to remember Stone's stinkers like Natural Born Killers, The Doors, and JFK. He got lucky with Platoon and Wall Street. Both of which are fantastic films.

Ice Station Zebra is great even with all of its imperfections. It captures the mood of the era perfectly. Let's hope Hollywood doesn't ruin another classic movie just because they can't come up with any original ideas. Sheesh!

Oh, I hope not!

And Yakov Smirnov as Col. Ostrovsky, originally played by little known but remarkably productive Alf Kjellin?

"The Prisoner wasn't the best..."

Yes it was the best, you piece of junk!


"Maybe it isn't the best TV show of all time."

It just said it is, you moron.


"Did it always succeed? No. No show ever does."

Yes, it did succeed! And some shows did and do succeed, you idiotic armpit licker!


"If they're going to do that then Hollywood might as well remake "Gone With The Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Citizen Kane", "Casablanca", "Birth of a Nation", etc."

etc. my a$$! *swiftly destroys saginaw1 for making the above statment worse by saying etc. when he knows full well he's not supposed to* And no, Hollywood might as NOT well remake those movies. Just because they remake one classic(but lesser known) film? Uh Uh. No way! But then again, I guess you have and still say the exact statment for other old movies that will get remade or have been remade. Dumbf---.

There is no need for a remake of the classic 1968 MGM Cold War thriller! It's just fine the way it is! Hollywood, leave the classics the *&^%$#@!!! alone!

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Now here's a strange thing. I absolutely loathed the screen adaptation of 'Ice Station Zebra' because, fortunately(or unfortunately, depending upon your outlook), I read the book first.

The filmmakers committed two crimes in my book. Firstly they made Hudson's character the hero while in the book the main protagonist is McGoohan's character. Quite obviously the a**hole Rock Hudson said to the producers, "If you want me to be in it, I must be the star."(for "star" read "hero")

The second crime is in mangling the ending(again, to make RH the hero).

For God's sake, let someone else remake the film but make *beep* sure they stick to the book!

This, of course, is my own humble opinion.

John.


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