How could anyone in Hollywood think they could remake this show. Why not just hire the actors to dub their voice or something. I can't think of any American's or English people to replace these awesome actors / actress's.
Love Love this show..
I totally agree with you! The trend of re-making these excellent Scandinavian series seems to me to be simply down to the fact that many Americans are too lazy to bother with subtitles (or at least, the producers seem to think they are). It's the same with movies. "Let the Right One In" and the Dragon Tattoo films being examples of totally unnecessary re-makes.
PLEASE tell me they are not considering an American re-make of Borgen...?
According tot thuis site HBO is maling a remake of borgen.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a530739/borgen-us-remake-in-the-works-at-hbo-creator-confirms.html
I wouldn't mind a remake using the original actors, in English.
Set in Denmark.
But the American political system means that at least half the plots would be redundant.
Rather similar to what they did with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Only using the original actors.
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Yeah heavens just dub it...in fact just have the actual actors do the dubbing...seems like all speak just fine English,,,,
...Hollywood remake...I realize the subtitles go by pretty fast,,,,we would be lost with out the pause button...really...I have not tried to watch this on live TV ....cuz like Downton ...if you get up to grab just a cracker...you have missed a crucial detail in a subplot....did I say subplot? ..whoops ..We got no subplots in these intense shows..
Someone is giving these Danish production companies some very bad advice. Denmark (and Sweden) keep making some of the greatest television out there, and yet they let American companies talk them into selling them the right to remake them instead of distributing the shows in U.S. Presumably these networks are able to convince the Danish companies that Americans will not watch a show with subtitles. Wrong! Give us a try. Do some real promotion. There is a built in audience here who are either illegally downloading your shows via torrents or buying all region DVD players and buying the British DVDs just so they can see your shows.
In an ironic twist, American networks who buy the remake rights also require the Danish producers not to release the originals because they might compete for American viewers(?!) There is a contradiction here!
When Scandinavian companies decided to trust UK audiences with the originals, British people made them huge hits! Why can't they do the same in the U.S.? Granted, the percentage of the U.S. that watches subtitled shows isn't huge, but the overall population is big enough that that percentage can be millions of people.
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I thought this show was fantastic. It's definitely in my top 10 shows ever but if HBO re-did it I'm sure it would be good. Hopefully it wouldn't be exactly the same, but why wouldn't you want more of Borgen?
The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Most Americans won't even watch British shows, let alone foreign-language shows - so even British series gets remade. Yeah, Americans (on the whole) are that dumb and insular.
shareI would generally agree that a lot of American remakes are sub par but not all - House of Cards being a recent example. There were US remakes of both Bron/Broen (The Bridge) and Forbrydelsen (The Killing) both of which I felt fell way short of the originals. The British even remade The Bridge as The Tunnel. I think I lasted until the second episode of that one. With House Of Cards there was a 20 year gap between the English and American versions, and I think that is a big advantage. House of Cards has a whole new audience now, from around the world.
There is some really great TV coming from all parts of the globe including US, Europe and UK. I do kind of wish the various studios would just stick to doing their own new stuff. There is currently a US show Gracepoint screening at the moment which is pretty much an exact copy of (UK show) Broadchurch. I have only seen the trailer for it but those scenes were exactly the same as Broadchurch. It even stars the same lead actor (David Tennant) in the same role!
As for this argument that some shows are "too British" for American audiences or that the Americans "can't do subtitles" I am sorry but I do not buy that. The Americans produces some top quality drama that finds huge American audiences and I just don't believe those audience on mass are not "sophisticated" enough to watch quality foreign drama. A good story, well written, cast, acted, directed, shot etc will always find an appreciative audience.
Any US remake of Borgen will suffer detrimentally from inevitable comparisons to House Of Cards. It will never win that fight.
(Disclaimer: I am not American, British or European)
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