I love this film and I want to become a film director one day and I would make a remake of this with Clint Eastwood. Who do you people think could be in it.
shareI don't think a remake would work. A big part of the emotional power in this film comes from knowing that John Wayne was in a very similiar situation to the character he was portraying, so the movie was depressing (and touching) on a whole new level.
shareI greatly encourage your ambition to become a director. However, to remake "The Shootist" would be foolhardy, at best. Consider this argument which has been posted on a number of threads:
Why does every classic or near-classic film have this USELESS thread?
I obviously DO NOT condone re-making perfectly good classic films. Look what happened when Disney/ABC tried to re-do "Brian's Song." Ditto for the new version of "Flight of the Phoenix."
At best, a re-make will be a hit for possibly a week, until it is pushed off the best-seller list by the latest "Scary Movie" sequel.
At worst, a re-make would be the only version younger people see, and they would dismiss the superior original because the pale re-make did not captivate them.
"Dadoo4050: and who, disguised as a mild-mannered schoolteacher. . ."
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To jdh1271,
Dear Sir,
I hope you do not take this as a personal attack but, if you insist on continuing to advocate a remake of the Shootist in any way shape or form,
in any forum (public or private), I shall immediately contact my attorney...and have him hire several roughnecks to
drag you out back and kick the living S H I T out of you.
No, but seriously NO REMAKES. Trust me on this one OKAY.
"I'd resent that if I were sober."
Lt. Col Henry Blake
Everybody calm down!!!!!!
I just doing this for fun. I like to think who could star in remakes. I never said I would remake it, sstovall you need to know was is a joke and what isn't because thats not funny. Someone sent a message like that to a friend of mine and he got so scared he left town.
People I love Wayne, Stewart and all the classic films I'm only doing this for fun okay.
CALM THE *beep* DOWN!!!!!
You're right, I should never have mentioned hiring a lawyer.
Guy get real, I don't know about your friend's situation, but come on. This is an anonymous forum, I have no idea who who are, where you live, or even your name. So it could not be construed as a viable threat, even if it was worded seriously. When some one says they'll 'blah blah legal sounding blah blah' then turns around and throws in 'roughnecks' and 'dragging out back' it is obviously a joke. Maybe you are the one who needs to learn what is funny and what isn't. Especially when it is followed up by "No, but seriously...". I didn't start verbally wailing on you like some of the people who responded, did I? No, I responded to your joke with another joke. Just because you had a friend who got threatened into leaving town doesn't mean that there are any sacred cows on IMDB. I had a friend who shot himself, but I don't get pissy every time someone responds to a lame idea on one of these threads with a version of 'if they ever remade this or that movie I'd shoot myself in the head'. Either grow some thicker skin, a set of bollocks or sell your keyboard to raise some therapy money.
or to quote The Duke from this movie
Well, pardon me all to he11...buster.
"I'd resent that if I were sober."
Lt. Col Henry Blake
Pilgrim I wish to put this whole mess behind me, I will admit I overracted. But I do miss my friend. Sorry, shouldn't involve my personal problems in good inviroment.
shareEven though I love the film, I wouldn't mind a remake that stuck more closely to the tone of the book. While the film's individual scenes are very close to the ones in the book, the overall feeling is much lighter (whereas the book is pitch black). I was talking to Miles Swarthout (screenwriter on The Shootist) and even though he's very proud of the film, he wished it was darker and was disappointed by the 'happy' ending regarding Ron Howard's character.
I like pie.
No John Wayne movie was ever going to be 'dark and gritty'. He liked his (and the other protagonists)to have the admirable qualities that are so often missing in real life, and be larger than life types in stories that had 'happy endings' showing good overcoming evil. Now I like both types of movies, I can sit and watch The Cowboys and Midnight Cowboy back to back and enjoy both just as much, but the Duke would never make The Shootist the way it was originally written even though I believed he liked the book very much as it was.
"I'd resent that if I were sober."
Lt. Col Henry Blake
I'm aware of that, and that's why I wouldn't mind a remake.
I like pie.
...Heh, heh! Aren't "ignore" buttons wonderful? I have no idea what Marm just said, unless I go back and undo the "ignore" function, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts he's playing the racist card on John Wayne again, like he does everywhere else in these boards!
What ever you do, folks, don't feed the trolls. Ignore them totally, and they'll finally go away for want of the attention they crave that we refuse to give them...
...Now, about this idea of a "Shootist" re-make with Eastwood...well, it won't work with Clint, because, by the time the OP has worked his way up as a hot-shot director, Eastwood (who's pretty long in the tooth NOW) will probably have already gone on to his final reward.
Any attempt to remake TS will fall flat. But it could be re-done in a different setting, as a non-Western...
Absolutely not. As much of an Eastwood fan that I am and as much that I think he could play the part perfectly this role could only be done by John Wayne. The part of J.B. Books seemed to be almost taylor made for him to play. There is no need for a remake.
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If Eastwood could remake "Shane" as "Pale Rider", he can remake "The Shootist".
Besides, there's a treasure trove of old westerns going back to the 1950s that could be mined for old clips of a younger Eastwood.
...At Eastwood's current age (turning 79 in May) AND if producers, screenwriters, casting agents, etc., get their act together RIGHT NOW and begin laying out a "Shootist" re-make, Clint'll probably either be passed on to "the Great Beyond" or in his mid-eighties, by such time as this hypothetical production is finally in the can. So it doesn't seem too likely he'll be starring in any more Westerns.
However, it would be great, if he's still around, to play a supporting role in such a re-make (maybe Jimmy Stewart's role as the doctor?)
But, alas, it would seem that Clint Eastwood's days as a lead actor for films in the "18-49" demographic are long behind him...
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...Yeah, I got my math wrong on that, but I knew he was born in May of '30.
Your finding anything "rascist" in "The Shootist" is downright laughable. Is this the label you attach to ANYTHING and ANYONE you don't happen to like?
Oh, and among some of the reasons they DO remakes, genius, is because of the "dated" nature of many of the original films...
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This reminds me of a remake I have long been shipping which is to remake "Targets" with Christopher Lee....the thought being that he is the last remaining great icon of horror films, much as mr Eastwood is the last remaining icon of Westerns....however, I will put a middle case...remake the plot of the shootist, but as a cop film, another genre which with Mr Eastwood is much identified....Dirty Harry's last shoot out...
It is not our abilities that make us who we are...it is our choices
by - jdh1271
on Sun Nov 26 2006 16:45:19
I love this film and I want to become a film director one day and I would make a remake of this with Clint Eastwood. Who do you people think could be in it.