Tag: Remake

Watch the New Clash of the Titans Trailer

I’ve been waiting to see this for awhile now. This is the ‘Clash of the Titans’ teaser trailer. ‘Clash of the Titans’ is the remake of the 1981 film of the same name. When I first heard about the remake I thought to myself “Oh god why?!?” Later I heard that Louis Leterrier was signed …

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Trailer: The Crazies Remake

This week on the Geek Actually podcast we discussed this trailer for the remake of ‘The Crazies’ so we thought we had better post it up. For those who might be interested in a comparison, here is the trailer for George A. Romero’s original 1970’s film.

The New Nightmare on Elm Street Teaser

As anyone knows by now, I am not real big on remaking films that are not that old, however as soon as I heard that Jackie Earle Haley was cast as Freddy Kruger I got a little excited about this project. I know that it is one of the Michael Bay produced remakes which I …

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Spielberg Wants Downey Jr for Harvey

We have had much discussion on the podcast about Steven Spielberg’s ‘Harvey’ remake and who he should cast. We even set up a poll and discussion thread about it in our forum (go here to see that thread). We mainly talked about who could play the Elwood P. Dowd character so immortalised by James Stewart. …

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Another Remake: Swamp Thing – this time in 3D!

Wes Craven directed the original “Swamp Thing” movie in 1982 starring Dick Durock, Louis Jourdan and Adrienne Barbeau and it later got a sequel in 1989 called “The Return of Swamp Thing”, this time directed by Jim Wynorski and again starring Durock and Jourdan. Andrienne Barbeau didn’t return for the sequel and the female lead …

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The Beatle’s Yellow Submarine Setting Sail Again

Variety reports today that Robert Zemeckis is in negotiations with Disney to produce and direct a remake of the psychedelic 1968 cartoon, “Yellow Submarine”. The new film would be rendered in the same MoCap (Motion Capture) CG as Zemeckis’ “The Polar Express”, “Beowulf” and this years “A Christmas Carol”. Now before anyone starts jumping up …

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