Let sleeping dogs ........
Posted by Crowdedmouse on 18 August 2008 - 2:59pm.
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Oh no!
This is taking the current trend for remaking and repackaging too far - you can't mess with perfection!
I also saw a very, very shocking thing that they are considering remaking Minder with Shane Ritchie in it! What the hell are they thinking!?
Although, I think the worse case was the movie remake of Sgt. Bilko with Steve Martin - sheer sacrilege!
Dallas
With John Travolta as J.R.
Nuff said.
Shane Ritchie
Will he be 'er indoors?
Seriously...
do you know what part he will be taking? I mean I just cannot imagine him as Arfur and certainly not as ex-boxer bouncer/bodyguard Terry. Mournful Morris maybe?
Leave it out...
According to the Daily Telegraph, "The Five remake of the ITV show will star Shane Richie as Archie Daley, the nephew of Arthur Daley, whose dodgy money-making schemes captivated millions of viewers in the 1980s.
His minder, Jamie, will be played by Lex Shrapnel, in the six-part series, which will be broadcast next year."
PLEASE tell me that is not his real name
Sounds like a drummer
from some 80's hardcore punk band like Discharge or The Varukers!
Shane
He's had experience behind a bar in Eastenders so perhaps he's going for the main job behind the bar of The Winchester?
They'll be doing Casablanca next...
Rick Blaine - Justin Timberlake
Ilsa Lund - Paris Hilton
Sam - Ice T
Lord save us
From 'creatives' with no imagination or original ideas...
And the bit I hate most is when they call it "a re-imagining" - as if that means that they aren't copying wholesale.
Banana Splits
Can't see us getting"The Sour Grapes Bunch" in this PC age. Will we get an updated Arabian Knights("Size of an elephant") or The Three Musketeers. You have no idea what i'm on about do you?
The Likely Lads with Ant and/or Dec.
Please leave Minder alone. It was bad enough when Waterman left.
Hmmm .. that pic is them now?
Snorky's definitely had some work done.
(pre-makeover)
'Hawaii Five-0' and 'The Streets of San Francisco'
are both in the process of being remade.
Why bother?
The Prisoner
has also been up for a Hollywood remake for years, I once read that Mel Gibson, of all people, was to be involved.
Of course one idea was to move the whole setting to America and to imply that Number 6 has been kidnapped by, yes you've guessed it - Terrorists! Jesus, won't these people ever learn!
What a hideous idea...
why? why? WHY?!
Exactly!
As if Mel Gibson hasn't been responsible enough for re-writing England's (and Britain's) role in world history - usually to our detriment - he's going to have a go at messing up our fiction too!
Actually, it now looks like ITV are producing a mini-series with Ian McKellen, filmimg in Namibia!
I did uncover an unlikely hero though who foiled one attempted Prisoner remake, three cheers for...
Richard Woolfe, head of Sky One was interviewed 24th August 2007 by Neil Wilkes, editor at Digital Spy about the abandoned remake of The Prisoner:
What happened with the planned remake of The Prisoner?
"The Prisoner is not happening. It's a very quintessentially British drama and there were too many creative differences trying to share it with an American partner. I didn't want to be responsible for taking something that is quintessentially British and adapting it in a way that I didn't feel was reflective of the way people would remember it and the way people would want it to be. So we called time on that."