Little Shop of Horrors musical movie remake — Page 5

Yes Jordan, she was in the awful Marci X, and performed this gem on the comeback. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLBUwHT8ce0

And now with the new director's cut being released on blu-ray this October with a newly re-mastered (from the original color negative)original ending intact there is even less of a reason to remake this.

Again I say I wish they would concentrate on material that hasn't been done yet.

IN THE HEIGHTS
SPRING AWAKENING
NEXT TO NORMAL
WICKED

I don't need to see another movie version of MY FAIR LADY, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS or (shudder) GYPSY!

For the record, I really like both the origional Roger Corman film and the musical film but out of interest, how many people who think that a re-make is unnecessary, will still go to the cinema to see it if the project goes ahead?
If you don't need to see it, don't go and see it then. I just don't see why it's a travesty to re-make something, no matter how good, when material is re-cycled in other mediums all the time.
Who knows, a new version might actually be good!

"I'm sure a younger hipster cast and a CGI Audrey II will indeed be embraced...by teens. It just wouldn't sit well with my fuddy duddy purist self."

It has nothing to do with being a "fuddy duddy", the characters simply DO NOT WORK if they are young, especially Audrey. She's a woman who's been around the block more times than she can count and had been treated so badly for so long that she believes she's worthless. If you put Selena Gomez in there, that character now makes no sense. You just find yourself wondering why she doesn't just go to a bar and hookup with a rich guy and get over it and stop acting like a whiney little brat. Audrey is a really depressing and depressed woman who needs an actress that can convey all of that and it won't happen with a younger or younger looking (I.e. Kerry Butler) actress.

It isn't a travesty, it's just pointless. No hand wringing here.

I can't think of one movie remake I enjoyed more than the original. The best I can say is that I liked it just as much, and those instances are few and far between. More often than not, they suck.

Btw, why was Ripley replaced? Not to open a can of worms, but I don't remember.

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To address JP2 I was simply coming from the point of view of studios tackling material or shows that have not been done and not rehashing the same old same old....whats so difficult to understand about that?

That was my first thought upon readings about the remake. I'm not sure I see the point of redoing this one when there are lots of other musicals that haven't been done yet. I vote for Spring Awakening.

I think Ripley was simply victim to the complete overhaul the production went under before moving to Broadway. It sounds like, in many ways, the original approach was more appropriate to the material than the Disaneyland take the revival ended up with.

JP I get your argument, but nobody has really been pleased with any Gatsby adaptation (this will be the fifth time, BTW :P if you count the silent, Alan Ladd version, Jack Clayton version, and the almost too faithful 90s TV movie with Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd). Little Shop is seen as most as a successful adaptation. I mean even with Gypsy, I know some actually like the Roz Russell mess, but for the most part people felt it was a disappointment.

It feelslike Hollywood goes in waves. Early on, remakes were common--partly because technology was improving (ie redoing a hit property just ten years later because now you could do it with sound) and because it was much more rare that people would have access to the original version, anyway. Then when older movies were easier to see (due to tv, then cable in the 70s, then home media, etc), people seemed to largely lose interest in remakes, unless it was a property they felt they could finally do justice to, due to better effects, or whatever. But now the mentality really seems to be remake anything with any sort of name recognition, whether successful artistically/commercially or not (ie the recent horror remakes of everything from prom Night to the modern classic Nightmare on Elm Street).

Actually, my point was that The Great Gatsby and 50 Shades of Grey, while both books, are absolutely nothing a like. And a movie studio doesn't have some sort of ultimatum to direct one or the other.

The "why make THIS when they can make THAT!" argument just doesn't make any sense to me.

Ah, sorry. I thought you were speaking about why make another remake instead of adapting something that hasn't been made.

(Besides, they are making a 50 Shades of Grey movie... :P )

Thank you besty. I couldn't have said it any better myself.