Who would you pick to star in a remake?
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hartinm — 20 years ago(December 04, 2005 07:42 PM)
Unfortunately, Hollywood already remade/ruined this classic film with 1996's "FLED". It starred Lawrence Fishbourne and Stephen Baldwin. It wasn't a drama, or a comedy, or really much of anything. The racial conflict is that there is not a racial conflict with the exception of one surly line from Baldwin. If they make this movie again I will only have a question: WHY!?
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Xardas — 19 years ago(September 09, 2006 03:04 PM)
It was also redone with Robert Urich and Carl Weathers in 1986.
He's right, already made. And for what I remember (I watched when I was a kid) it wasn't a bad film.
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BuddyRabbit — 17 years ago(May 16, 2008 10:02 PM)
First off, this film should NEVER be "re-made".
However, in the event that Hollywhore should be so lame as to attempt a "re-make", then I would recommend the following casting for the lead roles:
Edward Norton (white guy)
Chris Rock (non-white guy)
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doucette_kelly — 19 years ago(September 13, 2006 07:13 PM)
They already did do a remake! (1996's "Fled" w/ Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) and Stephen Baldwin (The Flintstones Go to Viva Rock Vegas) as the convicts and Will Patton (Remember the Titans) as the sheriff. They changed the characters and locales around to make a pretty rehased film.
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morris9795 — 18 years ago(December 01, 2007 10:29 AM)
This is a movie that should not be remade, not because it isn't a good movie but simply because a remake would ruin the merit of the movie. Moreover, the movie is very much a period movie. The theme of racism still translates today but the movie today is not "revolutionary" as it was back in 1958. Mostly though I think a remake would take away from the merit of the film. I'm not saying that a good remake of this movie couldn't be made but it would take a really talented director to remake it in the style of the 1950's. By this I mean the director would need to keep the movie clean, i.e. no addition of any kind of a nude scene. I'm sure that an addition of swearing wouldn't take from the movie too much and might help the film in relating to today's modern audience but proper discretion would need to be taken. Also, I'm sure some violence or added gore could be done but again with proper discretion. Granted neither the violence nor the swearing is needed but it seems that it's what the populace wants in their movies nowadays. My own personal opinion is that it should be left alone. The only thing that should be done to it, and this is simply to gain it some attention is to re-release the movie and maybe colorize it.