#film-remake

#film-remake

"Inspired by" hardly covers it. How to Make a Killing is a conventional remake, replicating many of its characters and narrative beats, while failing to capture any of its frosty charm - or the trick of having Alec Guinness play eight different characters. Both director and star have shied away from the thrilling moral apathy of the original film's antihero.

Remaking Robert Hamer's 1949 British classic Kind Hearts and Coronets—the greatest Ealing Studios comedy and, in my own fevered opinion, the greatest film of all time—needs the chutzpah of Cecilia Gimenez, the amateur Spanish artist who restored a painting of Christ and left him looking like a gibbon.

Josh Brolin, Lee Pace and the rest of a star-studded cast go back to the future sort of in The Running Man, director Edgar Wright's Easter Egg-stuffed gift to cinemaniacs that's set in the near future and constructed around a deadly reality game that Stephen King envisioned in a 1982 novel of the same name. And if it all sounds familiar, the novel was previously adapted for the big screen and became a popular 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action/sci-fi flick. Wright's R-rated visual feast opens Nov. 14 in area theaters.

At the end of Save the Green Planet! the twisted 2003 Korean sci-fi black comedy directed by Jang Joon-hwan, the CEO kidnapped by a conspiracy theorist who believes him to be an alien in disguise is revealed to be... an alien in disguise. Escaping from his captor, the CEO returns to his alien spaceship and orders the destruction of Earth, having become disgusted with the "failed experiment" that is humanity.

Doug and Griff have been best friends since they were kids, and have always dreamed of remaking their all-time favorite movie: the cinematic 'classic' Anaconda," reads the official logline. " When a midlife crisis pushes them to finally go for it, they head deep into the Amazon to start filming. But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation. The movie they're dying to make? It might just get them killed...

Kate McKinnon looks tired. I don't blame her. She's in London to promote "The Roses," which opens Friday, and I'm here to ask her about it. I'm not the first reporter she's talked to today, and I won't be the last. Hence, the "Saturday Night Live" stalwart looks like you or I do during the workday: ready for it to be over.

"I personally don't believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time."