Alternate post title: “WTF, Hollywood?”<\/p>\n
The Website at the End of the Universe<\/A> recently pointed to a list<\/A> of remakes (and a couple of sequels) to classic SF movies that don’t actually need<\/em> remaking, such as When Worlds Collide<\/I> and Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/I>. I could at least see why they were planning to It’s been recently announced, however, there’s a planned remake of They Live<\/A> and a sequel for Repo Man<\/A>, and we’re now squarely in “Huh?” territory. Unless your budget is $1.98, I’m having trouble seeing how you’d expect to make money on a remake of a movie that wasn’t very successful to begin with. (The Repo Man<\/I> sequel, incidentally, has a female star and carries “a serious message about the mortgage foreclosure crisis.” I couldn’t make<\/em> this stuff up.)<\/p>\n Now that cult favorites are being dug out from under rocks, I expect that The Toxic Avenger<\/I>, Krull<\/I>, and Cherry 2000<\/I> can’t be far behind. Sounds like it’s time to hole up in a bunker with a DVD player and a Netflix membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alternate post title: “WTF, Hollywood?” The Website at the End of the Universe recently pointed to a list of remakes (and a couple of sequels) to classic SF movies that don’t actually need remaking, such as When Worlds Collide and Creature from the Black Lagoon. I could at least see why they were planning to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}savage<\/del> reinterpret these films, since they were fairly mainstream.<\/p>\n