After getting blasted by idiotic fan sites who claimed they "called Spielberg" (hahaha yeah, right), we kept on trucking in reporting that there was a remake to Poltergeist in the works. I'm not saying I am happy to report it, I'm just saying that it... IS. The news has first hit here on our site in November of 2006, and then we personally confirmed it here on November of 2007. This afternoon The Hollywood Reporter wrote a piece on the new ROBOCOP remake and within the article MGM confirms - for the first time in written form - that a remake to POLTERGEIST is in fact in the works. We'll look into telling you who is in talks to direct and report back (I'm a tease, I know).
The 13th Ghost, have you seen Dakota recently? She's not the "little girl" she once was 5-years ago. I think she's too old to play Carol Anne. Anyways, remaking this movie is stupid. Poltergeist was perfect the way it was. Speilberg captured everything PERFECTLY with his script! How can you OUT DO Speilberg? It would be like remaking E.T. There's just no way, so why even try?
cpanthers, that's what i'm wondering, too.
i was trying to figure out what Bousman meant when he said "it's a popular movie that i'm remaking". this could very well be it.
Remakes don't destroy originals. The originals are still there and nothing will change that. So don't be such fucking drama queens. The day a remake comes out and magically all the copies and original prints of the originals vanish, then you can bitch. Until then.. get over it. This is the way of Hollywood, always has been, always will be.
Poltergeist screenwriter and Poltergeist II story and screenwriter Michael Grais believes he is working on the latest movie. Is this still true? Click the resume section of his site:
http://www.michaelgrais.com/
This is one remake that really pisses me off. The original is probably the best haunted house film ever made. I was really hoping they had decided to give us that Poltergeist IV that was talked about for a while instead.
You know that sound you make in your nose when you kind of snort and turn up one side of your face in a slight grimace of pained disgust? I don't know how to type that sound, otherwise I would.
Zombie Hell yo read my mind, remakes dont damn the original i was not a fan of the halloween remake but can appreciate the fact that yeah there is a new generation of horror fans that need their own iconic movies even if for jus given us the chance to have awesome converstations comparing the originals to the remakes...and lets us not forget remakes are sometimes a good thing... Dawn of the dead best remake, the hills have eyes (GOD the original was not good at all), the thing (forget this was a remake??), slither and imo tcm (call me a heathen but i think the original was HIGHLY overrated)
U GOTTA BE SHITTING ME!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! im sorry NOOONE cant replace heather o rourke!!!!! NOOONE ok it is bad enough that we have to deal with noes, halloween, tcm, and friday the thirtheenth remakes GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i hope everyone dies on the set just like how taylor, the originalkane (julian beck), ummm that chick who played carol annes and robbies sister in the first one.......GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. i just seen the poltgergiest 2 this mronign and this is a 10/10 classic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD LET THE PEOPLE WHO DIED REST IN PEACE. god who are they gonna get to play carol ann some stuipd actress who cant act? another linsey or paris wanna be!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! i was dreading this news would come....this pisses me off.................ONLY ONE THAT COULD POSIBILY PULL IT OFF IS DAKOTA FANNING OR HER SISTER........god no no no no.......ok THESE REMAKE PEOPLE NEED SHOT I AM SERIOUS!!!!!!ENOUGH WITH THE DAM REMAKES. THIS IS JUST WRONG.....ILL DEAL WITH THE OTHER ONES BUT NOOO THIS IS MY FAVBORITE MOVIE ALL THREE OF THEM WERE.......GOD Y DONT THEY MAKE A FOURTH ONE IT COULD BE ABOUT DIANE AND STEPHEN HAVING ANOTHER KID (DIANE MENTIONED IT TO CAROLANE WHILE THEY WERE IN THE MALL) AND ALL THE WIERD CRAP HAPPEN TO THERE NEW DAUGHTER..............sad sad day for me.....them bastards
forgot to add spielberg and tobe hopper made a 10/10 movie no need for a remake!.......MGM NEEDS BOMBED!!!!!!!!!!!! god cant anyone come up with stuff ORIGNAL!@?!@?!?!?! start remaking comedies leave my fav. genre alone!!!
Actually, FokisMoney and Zombie Hell, most people hate remakes because: 1.) Very rarely do you get a remake that is more groundbreaking and an impact the original was(Carpenter's The Thing comes to mind as one the did great). 2.) Point you two made stands, the orginals remain and are easy to find. So what if you can't relate to, say, the 80s cause you were too young to remember it? I can't relate to the 70s, but I love a lot of movies from then! 3.) And this is probably the most IMPORTANT ONE, cause it's leading to the death of original horror: With ALL the effort, more so NOW, spent on remakes that AREN'T needed(and I mean, don't contribute much to the horror genre), movie companies can ACTUALLY spend it on creating NEW horror icons for THIS generation. Remake all you like, Freddy's still an icon from the 80s, as is Jason. Michael Myers will always be more of a late 70s-80s horror figure as well. You can't say, "Oh, now they are OUR horror icons!". It doesn't work that way cause they originally impacted horror culture before now. Jigsaw is a modern horror icon. The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers is a modern horror icon. Frankly, there is a SHORTAGE of modern horror icons that are at the caliber of Freddy and Jason. THAT is a prime reason why focus should turn away from remakes and lock in on creating more original horror movies so, 20 years from now, when kids now are older, they can look back and be proud of the horror icons of THEIR generation, not of second-hand icons from before their generation.
Jesus H. Christ, as fucking shallow as people are, you could just re-release the original on the big-screen. Some of these dumbshits would think it was a new film. The creative well seems to have run dry. Hollywood knows that just the title of a classic horror film will put asses in the seats, & that my friends is why they keep churning out these hot & untasty cinematic shit sandwiches called re-makes.
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