Via The Presurfer, here are a pair of posts from a blog called Den Of Geek that list out a grand total of 66 remakes and sequels that are at some stage in the pipeline for the various Hollywood film studios.
Some of them are utterly predictable sequels: Alvin & The Chipmunks 2, yet another Tom Clancy “Jack Ryan” movie, Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2, and so on.
Others, however, leave you scratching your head as to why anyone would bother: Baby Geniuses 3, Rambo 5, another Superman movie with that new guy.
But what’s really troubling is the large number that aren’t sequels but remakes (or “re-boots”, as is the popular meme now). Some of the movies putatively being remade are films that really don’t need to be remade because they were good the first time: The Taking of Pelham 123, The Birds (c’mon, remaking Hitchcock?), Fame, Westworld. Others are properties that have never had a decent film adaptation: Dune, 1984, Fahrenheit 451. And then there are some that border on the unbelievable: Footloose, Tron, Porky’s (re-titled “Howard Stern’s ‘Porky’s'”), Clash Of The Titans, and the most ridiculous of all, a “re-boot” of Friday The 13th.
Behold these projects and be astounded at the total lack of imagination that has beset Tinseltown, and weep!
