I love how every female child role in these "who would you cast" threads is ALWAYS Dakota Fanning... by the time this film would be shot and released, she'd be way too old for that role, anyway.
First off, I would say that if this movie were to be remade, Disney should not be the company to do it, unless they gave it to one of their smaller subsidiaries.
I think Ellen Kreuger, who wrote The Ring, could rework the script. This film had a LOT of problems in its day, including an incredibly anti-climactic ending. I'd get Krueger to clean up the script, modernize it, and make it truly frightening (and not just to kids), plus give a better and scarier explanation for where Karen has been.
Jan should be a teenage actress - not someone in her 20's like Sarah Michelle Gellar; otherwise, why would she come to England with her family?
The father character could be written out completely - he was barely there in the original, anyway. I think it would be neat to focus more on the people who where there the night Karen disappeared rather than just have Jan visit them once and stir up old memories. I see them all as aging alcoholics who meet every year on the anniversary of the night of her disappearance to share guilt and hold a seance to try to get her back.
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nhtucker91360
19 years ago
I feel if this was redone, it'd be a direct-to-video release no matter who the cast is. The original would be better, though still seriously flawed because it's a movie made for teenagers & should be kept in that vein if remade.
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Mr_Ectoplasma
19 years ago
I love this movie, but a remake would be interesting. I'm not sure if it would live up to the original, but overall I'd like to see it remade in the future. With the advances in cinema nowadays, they could make this pretty cool...
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