The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Terminator: Genesis
Mission Impossible 5
Paranormal Activity 5
Beverly Hills Cop 4
Transformers 5
GI Joe 3
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 2
Star Trek 3
Worse, a reboot of a remake, of a film that is also about to get a reboot tv series.
To be fair, the movie will simply be the fourth adaptation of a successful novel. Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates are currently on their third iterations, so it's not particularly shocking that Damien Thorn's third and fourth iterations should appear at the same time.
Batman is about to be rebooted yet again with two separate continuities running simultaneously in the movies and on TV. But for serious rebooting, just look at Superman over the last three decades:
1987 - Superman IV (The last Christopher Reeve movie.)
1988-1992 - Superboy TV series
1993-1997 Lois & Clark TV series
overlaps with
1995/1996 - Superman Lives (The aborted Tim Burton movie which was supposed to star Nicholas Cage.)
2001-2011 - Smallville TV series.
overlaps with
2006 - Superman Returns movie
2013 - Man of Steel movie
So that's six distinct productions (or seven if you include the aborted Superman Lives) in the space of three decades. And that's just the live action versions. Add the animated movies and TV series and the list is much longer.
Honestly, there's nothing particularly unusual about a successful work having different adaptations in quick succession or even overlapping. Should the people at Hammer have said "Nah! Frankenstein and Dracula have been done to death"? Should the people at MGM have said "Nah! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has already been adapted twice"?
Besides, have you seen how many TV shows and movies have used public domain characters such as Dracula or Sherlock Holmes in recent years? For the next few decades, The Omen will remain a property which is owned by people who want to make money from it. There's only so much money to be made from the umpteenth DVD/Blu-Ray release, so the main way to keep the "franchise" profitable is to produce new versions.
The objections to remakes are tantamount to telling a goldmine owner to stop digging and just fondly remember the pieces of gold which were dug and sold four decades ago.
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Looks awesome
Mrs Doubtfire 2
Sharknado 3
V/H/S Viral (3)
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Terminator: Genesis
Mission Impossible 5
Paranormal Activity 5
Beverly Hills Cop 4
Transformers 5
GI Joe 3
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 2
Star Trek 3
All confirmed ..
Don't play with me now. I WOULD F*CKING LOVE A SEQUEL TO SKYLINE.:o:o:o:o:o:o
Yep, it's definitely happening
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/skyline/30645/skyline-2-coming-liam-odonnell-to-direct
I know the original got roundly slated by many but I liked what they achieved on such a tiny budget.
I LOVED that film. The sequence with the stealth fighters taking down the alien mothership was frickin' awesome, and the ending was BADASS.
Yes. It's out this Christmas
Rambo 5
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/reboot-of-the-remake-of-the-omen-is-coming-from-20th-century-fox-135
Worse, a reboot of a remake, of a film that is also about to get a reboot tv series.
Batman is about to be rebooted yet again with two separate continuities running simultaneously in the movies and on TV. But for serious rebooting, just look at Superman over the last three decades:
1987 - Superman IV (The last Christopher Reeve movie.)
1988-1992 - Superboy TV series
1993-1997 Lois & Clark TV series
overlaps with
1995/1996 - Superman Lives (The aborted Tim Burton movie which was supposed to star Nicholas Cage.)
2001-2011 - Smallville TV series.
overlaps with
2006 - Superman Returns movie
2013 - Man of Steel movie
So that's six distinct productions (or seven if you include the aborted Superman Lives) in the space of three decades. And that's just the live action versions. Add the animated movies and TV series and the list is much longer.
Honestly, there's nothing particularly unusual about a successful work having different adaptations in quick succession or even overlapping. Should the people at Hammer have said "Nah! Frankenstein and Dracula have been done to death"? Should the people at MGM have said "Nah! The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has already been adapted twice"?
The objections to remakes are tantamount to telling a goldmine owner to stop digging and just fondly remember the pieces of gold which were dug and sold four decades ago.
Snow White and the Huntsman 2
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/f-javier-gutierrez-the-ring-3-1201264639/