I would have to say no remake at all! Why ruin a classic show for just to make a movie when Hollywood cannot come up with their own ideas! I mean this movie would more than likely turn out to be like all of the other remakes that have ever been made. A flop at the box office!
"I would have to say no remake at all! Why ruin a classic show for just to make a movie when Hollywood cannot come up with their own ideas! I mean this movie would more than likely turn out to be like all of the other remakes that have ever been made. A flop at the box office! "
Rob Base, I agree with you strongly! That 2005 "Pukes of Hazzard" movie was PATHETIC!!!!
I am so sick of reading that Jessica Simpleton should play "Jody Banks" and Ass Face Kutcher is the next "Howie Munson!!!!!!!!!!" People are entitled to their opinions, but damn I am too and those two SUCK!!!!
I am glad you agree with me filmsRreel I totally respect your opinions also. I was completely shocked when I read the thread that someone wanted Ashton Kutcher to play Howie Munson and Jessica Simpson to play Jody Banks.
Come on now! What is wrong with Hollywood these days? Can they not come up with their own ideas for movies? I am working on a movie script that I need to get done and it is my own idea but more than likely someone would say that I am making the movie like Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde but that is not true though.
I mean lets put this remake of a classic show to rest! As the Great Undertaker from WWE use to say "Rest In Peace The Fall Guy with all of your glory and great pleasure you brought all of us fans of the show!"
I mean that in a good way and not a bad way you know.
Those are good choices but all they would do is screw up a great show like Th Fall Guy in the movie form I hate to say it. I am just being honest about it but it is the truth you know.
I have never liked remakes because remakes never do the original movie or the TV show any justice at all.
I hate to say it filmsRreel but they are going to ruin another classic show from the 80's that we grew up with and that is The A-TEAM! They are making the movie in todays current events which I do not agree with at all and some of the people that they have casted to play the lead roles I just cannot believe.
They have listed:
Bruce Willis as possible Col. John Hannibal Smith
Face they still do not know yet.
H.M. Murdoch played by Woody Harrelson possibly.
BA Barracus played by Ice Cube possibly.
Can you believe this? The movie is going to stink already before it even comes out next year.
I totally agree with you using the original cast but the bad thing about it is Lee Majors is getting too old to be doing stunts or some of the running around like he did over 20 years ago and Heather Thomas does not look as good as she did when she was on the show. She is still a beautiful woman but I do not think it would be the same.
George Clooney and a lot of these actors are too young to play Colt Seavers. You do not want some actor to screw up the role as Howie either. If they are going to do Jodie it has to be a blonde. Not a brunette.
This topic should be put to rest! No remake of this show should be done because if it is it will not turn out like the original show at all. It is just some writers or directors way of putting in their own creative ideas for the movie. Why in the world do you want someone half the age of Lee Majors when he did the show originally in the 80's?
Uh, Rob...I'm not sure how to break this to you, mate, but Lee Majors was forty-two years old when THE FALL GUY went to air in 1981. George Clooney, as of this writing, is forty-seven...
And more to the point, he LOOKS forty-seven. And unlike someone like Brad Pitt, for instance, who at forty-five still looks like he's in his twenties, Clooney seems intent on aging naturally and gracefully. Which is helped, of course, by his looking like...George Clooney. But with his greying hair and un-Botox-ed skin, Clooney looks like he has miles on the odometer, and given that Colt Seavers is a man whom time has caught up to, that sounds like a perfect marriage of actor and material to me.
I understand on what you are saying Mike but the thing is I do not want a classic show that I grew up with ruined because they want to alter things or put someone to play Colt Seavers who does not do the role perfectly like Lee Majors did.
That is why I am saying do not do a remake at all of this great TV show and leave it alone. That is the problem Hollywood cannot come up with their own ideas so they say "Hey here was a hit TV show! Why don't we make a movie out of this?" They try to do that but it fails at the box office because it lacks the chimestry of what the original established.
That is why if they are going to make a remake you get everyone who was involved with the original show and have them work with the people that wants to make a remake of it. That is what they did with Get Smart and I thought that movie stuck to elements of the original TV show even though yes they had to change things due to the current events but I felt that if they were going to do a remake of Get Smart what they should have done was set it up like the original show.
I do not want to see what I loved ruined because George Clooney ruined the Batman movies I hate to say it because they did not go for a fifth movie after he joined and it flopped at the box office.
The remake is not a bad idea but instead of a movie for the big screen how about like the New Knight Rider show and introduce new characters as taking over maybe have Lee Majors is the Owner of the Bail Bonds now and he spotted a new Stuntman that moonlights as a Bounty Hunter and sidekick and of course the Beautiful girl .
Like I have already stated on this thread that there is plans in the works for a remake of The A-TEAM. Stephen J. Cannell is going to do it and has selected a few people who he feels may do the movie well.
They decided to do the movie based on current events which I am not too happy about and it should be done like the TV show where a crack commando unit was sent to Federal prison for their actions in Vietnam not the current Iraq war or Afghanistan war.
I just thought I would let you know and some of the ideas for the cast members are this:
Possibly but not locked in yet Bruce Willis playing Col. John Hannibal Smith
Possibly but not locked in yet Woody Harrelson playing HM Murdoch
Possibly but not locked in playing BA Barracus Ice Cube
I agree with you there on that because a lot of people want a main star to do the role as Colt and how can they do that? That is why sometimes I get frustrated when they remake a movie and get the wrong actors to play the main characters in movies.
I paid the money to go see the remake of WILD, WILD, WEST and was pissed that they casted Will Smith to play James West. If you go to the Three's Company board there are some people who want to see a remake of that. Do you know who some people wanted to see play Jack Tripper that John Ritter did? They wanted Will Smith to play the role of Jack. I was like hell no he would not be good at all for the part of Jack Tripper.
I totally agree with you about the remakes guy. I cannot stand it either! I do not know why these writers cannot come up with their own ideas to do something. If they were to make a remake of Dallas what I would do is try to get input on information on how to make the movie real like the show.
Well take a look at what they tried to revive now and it is not doing so well. That is 90210 the show. Come on now I am totally surprised that they tried to revive this franchise again. Now if they were smart what they could have done was waited like 4 to 5 years after the show went off to bring in a new cast for 90210 when it was still popular during the 90's.
I think if they had Ben Stiller playing J.R. it would not have been very good at all. Look at what they did to Starsky And Hutch! I loved that show as a kid and both Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson ruined the classic show with that tasteless tacky movie! I was so pissed about that you know.
I agree with you about remakes. I do not like them very well either. I have heard that by next year they will have The A-TEAM remade but the story line is different though. The creator of The A-TEAM is having it take place with todays current events instead of how it was originally set which is Vietnam.
I was not too happy to hear about that. I think Bruce Willis would be good as Col. John Hannibal Smith but the next three actors to play B.A., and Howling Mad Murdoch was just crazy!
Here is who they possibly want to get to play B.A. was Ice Cube and for Howling Mad Murdoch it was Woody Harrelson. I think that is nuts. I thought that I would let you know that I created a idea on this board for a movie for The Fall Guy.
The way that I figured it was that since Colt Seavers who is played by Lee Majors is up there in age and possibly cannot do some of the stunts like he use to do he has bought a Fall Guy stunt school and his instructors are Heather Thomas playing Jody and Douglas Barr playing Howie Munson.
Somehow one of the past actors who played the head of the bondsman agency comes to the school trying to talk Colt out of retirement to do this last bounty hunting for her. Colt is hesitant about doing this but decides to do it because it is going to pay big money for this criminal he has to bring back in.
It might be one of the former characters he use to have to chase after you know. That is my idea right there where nothing gets changed or altered. What do you think about that?
I am glad that you love my idea but the thing is would Glen Larson and Lee Majors go for my idea though is the question. Plus, you have to consider that Heather Thomas has not done anything since the 90's I believe and Douglas Barr is working behind the cameras now and the last time he appeared in front of the cameras was in Designing Women when it was on I believe.
I came up with the idea while on this board here and I have mentioned it before and I think that would be the best way to go about doing a big screen movie with all of the original actors including Big Jack if she wants to come back for the movie which would also be a reunion for the whole cast and crew. You would have Markie Post return as well to come up with some reason why she left the business of bounty hunting, and the other thing is about the rest of the other cast as well that they would have to figure out.
Buddy Hackett passed away a few years ago and if they were to have his character in the movie then they could come up with something to explain why he is not there. Well The A-TEAM idea you have to blame on Stephen J. Canell who wanted to make it more modern and I do not know why they bent toward the fans that wanted them to go in that direction at all.
Yes Bruce Willis would be good for John Hannibal Smith but the rest I am not so crazy about though. You should go through and read some of those posts on The A-TEAM on who they want to play B.A., Howling Mad Murdoch which I think that Jim Carey would be perfect but he may go over the top sometimes playing Murdoch to be honest with you and they would have to figure out who is going to play Face and Amy for this movie and they may add Tanya into the movie as well. Who knows.
I know that they always come up with the worst actors to play the main characters. The problem with the original cast playing The A-TEAM is tha George Preppard who played John Hannibal Smith passed away in the early 90's. It would not make any sense at all if we saw a different actor playing for the late George Preppard you know. I know that Stephen J. Cannell should not have it in a modern setting but that is what they are going wih for some reason. I guess they want to appeal to todays generation who does not know anything about Vietnam. I agree with you there that when they set up ideas for movies they turn out crappy and it ruins the setting for the original TV show. People always say well this is the directors idea or the writers idea for the show. I never liked the new Battle Star Galactica because I grew up in the late 70's and early 80's watching the original Battle Star Galactica and felt the new TV show should have been done like that and I had a lot of the new fans tell me that I should move on. How can I when it is not the same though like the original show that I remember as a kid. I do not know why the cannot leave these classic shows alone. I do not know why they do not stop though.
I agree and I am glad that they flop those movies. Yes those movies are such insults to watch because they are not made the proper way which it shows exactly respect to the original shows. I do not know why in the world they make dramatic shows into comedies for. I guess they are just trying to appeal to the public on what they think that they will like to watch in a movie. Yes I have noticed that many times already. I have seen all of those movies or some of them that you have mentioned about. I did not like Miami Vice and it honestly did not look good at all to watch in my opinion. I heard a lot of people tell me that it was not that good at all. That would have been awful if they had ruined The Six Million Dollar Man. I am sorry to say it but Lindsay Lohan would have have been a very good Jeannie in my honest opinion. Why don't they use a no name actress for the role? That I think would be a lot more believeable than a mainstream star.
It would more than likely be done better with a no name actress because she will be hungry for the role and do it better I think as a Jeannie just to be honest. The thing is that Hollywood wants to take care of the A-List stars and feed them those leading roles. That is why I think Hollywood only wants to get the popular stars to do these roles because they think it will make them money if the publics favorite actor is in this movie or that movie.
Yes it is awful and that is why I do not like some movies that come out that are remakes because they are never done the proper way at all. I agree with you there about taking the time to write the script and casting the right cast for the movie but they do not think about that. If they can piece it together they think anyone and everyone will want to go see it. Well it is hard for the original cast to play their own roles if they are like 20 or 30 years older than what they were when the show was on. They cannot do half of the things that they once did before you know.
Well The Dukes Of Hazzard reunion was made and Boss Hogg was the only character who passed away. After the reunion was made Denver Pyle who played Uncle Jesse passed away. So they had like a bunch of new actors in the The Dukes Of Hazzard Goes Hollywood. All you can do is wait and see on what happens if The Six Million Dollar Man is remade into a movie there is nothing you can do about it. I know that you do not want anyone to play Steve Austin but I am sure the right actor is going to come along and be able to play him though and do the role correctly. Yes I know that he is most famous for that role and not anything else.
Well Stephen J. Cannell for some reason wants to do what everyone else want and he is listening to them instead of us original fans. Yes he produced the show and wrote some of the script for the show as well. I agree with you that he should care for the fans and how the show was done but he did not though and wants to update the version of the show. Well sorry to say but it is going to be set in a modern day experience. I have gone to the movie board and I said you know what movie this is going to be like or copied from? Some parts of the movie but not all of it though. I am not sure if you have seen the movie The Three Kings yet or not but it stars George Clooney, Ice Cube, and I cannot remember the third actor who was in that movie playing a main character. It is a terrible idea but Stephen J. Cannell wants to go with it though.
I did not care for the new Battle Star Galactica at all because they totally changed the characters on that show. Starbuck was not a female in the original show she was a male character. Then they changed Boomer from being a African American into a Oriental character or Asian decent which I did not agree with at all. The Cylons looked awful too! Even Dr. Baltar they wanted to change instead of the original actor who played Baltar. I remember as a kid I could not stand the evil Baltar because you knew he was a bad guy and this new one they made him seem like a whimp a complete opposite of the original Baltar.
Yes a no name actress would have done a better job I feel as the role of Daisy Duke. They do not need to have one of the overrate actors play the roles of the characters from a popular show at all. You hit the nail on the head about Hollywood. That is all that they care about is making the money and it does not matter how they do it either.
Yes he could pick the actor to do the role of Colt Seavers if they were to do a movie but the thing is would the new writers and director of the movie allow that though. I really do not want to see a remake of The Six Million Dollar Man to be honest with you. The only way is if they are going to do it right like the show. Then I would not have any problems at all about that.
I know what you are saying about the actor being too old to play the part but if the fans is asking for a movie you have to give it to them. Yes that is exactly what he is going to do to be honest with you is compromise what the show really meant back in the early 80's. How do you think I feel when I hear about one of my favorite shows that I loved to watch is going to be remade and it is nothing but crap to watch.
It makes it hard because I do not feel it actually captured the TV show version at all. Yes the New Battle Star Gallactica was a waste of time to watch the TV show but it had a lot of fans that loved the new show and preferred it over the old show. Do not ask me about the changes. The director wanted to take it in a different direction that is why with his own ideas about how the show should be done.
It is an insult to the original show in my opinion. Yes I agree with you there that whoever comes up with these ideas are brainless or smoking that wacky weed and coming up with the ideas for the new TV shows or movies.
See a lot of these movie companies do not really care to be really honest with you. If the movie company can make money off of an idea some writer has in recreating a classic TV show they will do it just to pack in the movie houses with the young teenagers with the stars that are hot and popular with everyone.
That is the whole thing. I do not think the can make it like the original version of the show. It would be very difficult unless you are good at making a remake.
I am glad that you agree with me about not wanting to make a remake of The Fall Guy. The show was perfect as it is and it is going to be hard to find anyone to fill in the shoes of the main actors who played those characters. Yes possibly George Segal could play Archie Bunker and like you said Debra Jo Rupp would be good as a Edith.
George Clooney is not fit for the role to play Colt Seavers at all! This movie should not even be attempted to be remade at all. Just leave it alone I say. Now for George Segal playing Archie Bunker would not be bad at all or Debra either playing Edith. I sort of do not want to see a classic TV show made into a movie because it will not be made right at all like the original show or movie.
I am not sure what other movies that they have coming out. I know that they are remaking Land Of The Lost because it comes out next Friday. I am not too sure if it is going to be as good as the original show though to be honest with you.
I am surprised that they are going to do a movie based upon "Hogans Hero" I liked that show as a kid and I hope it will stick to how it was done originally. I am surprised that they have not tried to modernize it too much to a current event you know. I even heard that there is The A-TEAM movie being worked on but not all of the information on it has been released yet. The only bad thing about The A-TEAM is that it is not going to be based upon a Vietnam war but instead on the Gulf War. I will not mind Land Of The Lost being cheesy. I love cheesy movies and shows.
Well that is cool that Land Of The Lost will be like the TV show. I am not going to complain about that at all.
Now The A-TEAM should have stuck with how the TV show was done but they chose to update it to current events. That is why I do not like remakes at all to be honest with you.
Yeah I am glad that The Big Valley is going to be done on how the original TV show was done. It should not be changed at all in my opinion.
I hope that The Six Million Dollar Man will be done the proper way like the TV show was done but I have my doubts about that though to be honest with you.
Yeah I am glad that Land Of The Lost will be similar to the show at least. The A-TEAM all we can do is wait and see about it you know. I hope it will be as good as the show.
Yeah I hope that the Big Valley will be good as well to watch. I also doubt that The Six Million Dollar Man will be done right either but we have to wait and see on what happens though.
Hopefully Gunsmoke will be done well because I remember growing up watching the TV show as a kid when they had it in reruns. So was I unhappy with WILD WILD WEST as well. Yes it was a disgrace to the show. I did not see Bewitched so I could not comment to be honest with you about that.
I am still not too happy that they did not stick with the original theme on how the show was created back in the 80's about fugitives wanted by the government about a crime that they committed in Vietnam. Now instead they are saying that they committed the crime at the time of the first Gulf War which is not cool at all in my opinion since I was 11 years old when The A-Team came out back in the 80's.
I am not sure what the plot will be for The Big Valley but all we can do is just hope that they have a good storyline for the movie for the original fans to go see it and the new fans as well.
We will have to wait and see about Gunsmoke though to see who they cast and how they do the story for that movie.
I did not care for WILD WILD WEST either because I remember when I use to come home from church on Sunday afternoons they would have WILD, WILD, West on and even during the week when I was not in school. I grew up watching that show and loved it. The creators idea to make James West black was all wrong to do in my opinion and to get away from the theme of the television show was all wrong as well. That is why I did not care for the movie but the soundtrack was very good though.
Thanks for letting me know about Bewitched. I will not watch it all then. It did not look that good to me to be honest with you.
The problem that I notice with such remakes like they are coming out with instead of sticking with the times when the show came out they want to always update it and make it into a current film based on todays times. That I do not agree with and that is why I am not too happy about The A-TEAM either. They should have stuck with the Vietnam plot like they had on the TV show instead of going with a current event like the Gulf War or after 9/11 in my opinion.
We will have to wait and see on The Big Valley because I do not want to speculate and have other people who are fans of the show spread rumors about a movie that has not been made yet. I am sure they will figure out a role for Lee Majors in the movie of The Big Valley. They might possibly add his son to play a role in the film. Who knows.
I was not too happy at all with Wild, Wild, West on the directors idea on who to cast for his film. I am also not too happy about Spielberg changing the Bumble Bee character in Transformers either from a Beetle Bug to a camaro. I loved the movie that he did but it just was not right to change one of the main characters. It would be like changing Optimus Prime from the semi tuck into like a aircraft carrier or something from the military for the movie.
I did not think that Bewitched would be good to watch at all anyways. I have heard about Dallas and we will have to wait and see on what they do with that. I am sure there are ideas more than likely being done for Dynasty to come out. We will have to be patient on that guy.
I would rather watch a movie that is close to how the TV show was than something that goes way out to the extreme of things you know. I mean how hard is it to dress people like how the show was done in the past? Not really that difficult because they are still doing movies from times and eras of the past. I can understand a few minor changes would not bother me but when they are major ones then I do not like it at all.
Hopefully The Big Valley will be done right but we have to wait and see about that on what they want to do with the film. WILD, WILD, WEST was a joke and I could not believe that the writer and director wanted to take it into a totally different direction than the TV show. Like you said if someone is watching the movie for the first time and did not watch the show at all then they are not going to know what the show was actually about.
I sort of figured that Bewitched was not going to follow the TV show on how it was originally done. It did not look very good in my opinion and that is why I did not waste my time in going to see it at all.
Well my only gripe about Transformers is that Bumble Bee was not originally a Chevy Camaro but a Volkswagon bettle car. So Spielberg decided to change the character Bumble Bee into a Chevy Camaro but the movie was very good though and I cannot wait for the sequel to come out.
We just have to wait and see on how Dallas is done before we can say anything about it. I am sure they will come out with a movie about Dynasty but will it be done right though? Is my question about it.
That is cool if they have it up about The Six Million Dollar Man. I do not have IMDB Pro either to check it out but I hope it is done correctly though.
I know what you mean about dressing them same way as how they dressed when the show was on. The thing is that they do not want to do that at all and instead keep it up with what is going on with today which is very stupid to do I think in my honest opinion. I do not know why they act as if it is for and I agree that it is very stupid of them to do. Well the reason why they change characters and the story line is to attract todays generation. Well if todays generation is smart enough what you do is you rent the TV show and watch it to get an understanding of when the movie is made you will know and understand what they are talking about.
What I am trying to say is like this new The A-TEAM all todays generation has to do is watch the classic TV show to get an idea on what it is about and the movie company does not have to cater to todays generation at all. I hate that and it pisses me off because from what I remember about The A-TEAM was they are fugitives wanted from Vietnam not the current Gulf War!
You just have to wait and see on what they do with The Big Valley. That is all you can do man. Hey I know WILD, WILD, WEST discusts you but there is nothing we can do about it unless someone within another 10 or 15 years from now wants to remake it and make it the proper way. No I did not know that he excepted the Razzie for the movie. The movie just sucked is all I have to say about it.
Now I know that Bewitched is not even close to the show and I will not watch it at all then. It is not your fault about the Transformers mishap. That is what they wanted to do with it so we have to accept Spielburgs idea about it.
I hope Dallas and Dynasty will be done right. If not then I will not be too happy about it at all. I just went and saw Land Of The Lost and feel as if I was ripped off because it has its similarities to the TV show that I grew up watching back in the 70's on Saturday morning but it just was not that all good at all though.
That is the problem is that they want to make things comical like they did with Starsky and Hutch. That TV show had its moments of comedy but the movie was a joke on what Starsky and Hutch was really all about. That is what worries me is that they are going to have some comedian portray Steve Austin as The Six Million Dollar Man. It has to be done right man.
Well when I first came onto IMDB they would not allow someone like me to even use IMDB unless I was a user and they altered that and created IMDB Pro. I think it is stupid though but that is how they want it though.
Yes Star Trek was done very well and I liked it. I just felt that they should have used more of the original cast than just one though.
That is the whole problem. They do cater to todays generation instead of focusing on the original people who watched the show. I understand that you want to draw in new fans but leave it as it is and not alter it at all. Well they know that the teenagers go to the movie theater to pay to watch the films that is why. They can make money off of them. True that it is their problem if they do not understand what is going on. Yes they should watch the show to understand what it was about.
I totally agree that it should be set in Vietnam and not the current events at all.
I am sure The Big Valley will be done right if they have the original people who made the show. I hope they do cast it right as well. That is the thing what they think is a good person to play the role is totally wrong and that is what causes a film to fail at the movie theaters.
Oh I am sure that WILD, Wild, West will be redone eventually but do not know when though. That is not good that Bewitched was as bad as Wild, Wild, West. Well they do not understand that us true fans loved the show on how it was done and all they care about is making money if they can do that.
The movie was ok but not the best to be honest with you. I am talking about Land Of The Lost. I do not know either why Starsky and Hutch was made into a comedy at all. It was a drama like you said and at some points in the show Huggy Bear did make it a little funny.
The problem is that these writers or the people at the film studios always wants to remake something because they think they can make it better than when it was originally on and they are very wrong about that to be honest with you.
They do not know how to come up with their own ideas and have to use something that has already been done and alter it a little bit some way or some how. I do not like remakes either because they are never done the right way to respect on how it was done in the first place at all.
I think you'd wanna cast someone who was popular in the 80s but is now sort of washed up to sort of make the show have more relevance... The first name that sort of comes to mind is Richard Greeko...
I would not even attempt to start creating a new version of The Fall Guy, just look at what you got when they tried that with Knight Rider a couple of times.