Bad Remake Idea of the Day

[silverscreenselect]

Ben Hur, to be directed by Timur Bekmambetov, whose work includes Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and the Angelina Jolie action film Wanted. At least, they will be working off a screenplay from John Ridley, who won this year's Oscar for 12 Years a Slave.

The Heston version is a classic, featuring one of the greatest action scenes of all time, which actually featured real drivers and chariots, not a bunch of hyper-edited CGI effects which will undoubtedly have hapless drivers thrown hundreds of feet in the air in slow motion and other physically impossible bits of "excitement." I also don't see Bekmambetov remaining emotionally and dramatically faithful to the original's sincerity. Instead, we're likely to get Ben Hur and Massala engaging in dueling biceps contests for half the movie. Needless to say, the overtly Christian aspects of the original will get ditched in favor of some vague nonsense about honor and duty. Gerard Butler has to be peeing in his pants with excitement at the prospect of landing this role.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/param ... 201162065/

[Bob Juch]

And the remake of Godzilla opens in three weeks. Will it make more than Pacific Rim?

[macrae1234]

Gerard Butler has to be peeing in his pants with excitement at the prospect of landing this role.

and I am sure "the Rock" or Vin Diesel as Messala

[lilclyde54]

I am actually looking forward to Godzilla being the first movie I have seen in a theater in over a year. Of course I have been a Godzilla freak for years. I was once filmed at the end of an Ole Miss/MS. State football game leading the OM band out of the stadium with a six foot inflatable Godzilla on my shoulders.

[BackInTex]

Maybe they should just make the movie about Chaz Bono and name it Been Her.