Why would anyone want to see a remake of one of the great films?
No one on the planet has the charisma and presence of Heston.
Other films butchered when remade.
Get Carter
Psycho
Alfie
Dial M for murder
To name a few

The thing about a remake is that it could tell us something interesting about how medieval societies operated, and what the era was really like and how it can inform today. If you could do it right, with historical accuracy, you would have the Castilian kings exacting their parias (protection money, basically) from the Muslim taifa kingdoms to the point where they were too weak to defend themselves from Castile or from each other, which leads them to invite the real fanatics from North Africa. The Muslim taifa kingdoms themselves were a mixed bag, but virtually all of them were tolerant to one degree or another of the Jews and Christians that they ruled over. Yes, there was jizya, there were taxes, and there were dhimmi - non-Muslim, less than full-fledged citizens - but there wasn't the fanaticism that we see later, after 1090 with the invasion of the Almoravids (and later the Almohadids).
Of course, that movie would never get made.

lol I woudn't hold my breath to see jewish politically correct hollywood make a movie about whites being invaded, ensalved and genocided by black muslims and jews.

lol I woudn't hold my breath to see jewish politically correct hollywood make a movie about whites being invaded, enslaved and genocided by blacks, muslims and jews.

I'd like to see a remake, but would leave it to the Spanish to make it.

Shortly after
Gladiator
was released and became a big hit producer Arthur Sarkissian intended to do a remake, claiming that this film would be his blueprint, and claimed it would be a superior remake to the original like
Gladiator
was in his mind to
The Fall of the Roman Empire
. (Naturally it's all to our own discretion whether or not we think he's actually right about that.) It got to the point that Martin Campbell was hired to direct and Antonio Banderas to star (the team from the highly successful
The Mask of Zorro
). But things were slowed down/muddled after conflict escalated in the Middle East and definitively killed after
Kingdom of Heaven
(which also dealt with Christian and Muslim conflict and was set in the Middle Ages) underperformed at the box office. With the epic genre as well pretty much fading away with it sans a few exceptions.

A remake??? Half of the final film would consist of CGI effects! And what is worse: the sanctimonious PC brigade would take thorough care that the Christians would be portrayed as racist chauvinists while the Arab wannabe conquerors would be the misunderstood, grossly bullied victims of racial prejudice.

That was because (a) it had an incoherent script, and the theatrical release made even less sense due to having about an hour roughly chopped out of it to reduce to to a sensible length for showing in commercial cinemas; and (b) it starred Orlando Bloom, who can't act his way out of a paper bag. There's no telling how successful it might have been with a sensible script and a really talented male lead.

We've recently had a medieval Christian-Muslim epic and it flopped at the box-office (Kingdom of Heaven).

"After all, remaking The Fall of the Roman Empire as Gladiator proved a quite successful endeavour."
But Gladiator pales in comparison to T.F.O.T.R.E.
"Cain and Abel will go to Heaven if they can make it through Hell!"
-Los Hijos Del Topo

I actually always thought that El Cid is not popular enough as theme, so maybe a remake might be not an altogether dreadful idea. After all, remaking The Fall of the Roman Empire as Gladiator proved a quite successful endeavour.

"You can't remake this film."
Agreed. I wish ill-health and a nasty STD on whoever dares remake this.
"Cain and Abel will go to Heaven if they can make it through Hell!"
-Los Hijos Del Topo

antonio banderas would play as a moor.

True.
If they did, good sense would be to wait.
"So what else is on your mind besides 100 proof women, 90 proof whiskey, and 14 karat gold?"

The Death of Charleton Heston makes this an even worse idea.
I'll Teach You To Laugh At Something's That's Funny
Homer Simpson

They need to leave it be.

1. They certainly cannot improve on it.
2. Everything will just be CGI, which is always disappointing, so why try?
   "So what else is on your mind besides 100 proof women, 90 proof whiskey, and 14 karat gold?"

You can but it would be a lousy idea.
I'll Teach You To Laugh At Something's That's Funny
Homer Simpson

You can't remake this film.

Banderas woudn't work, he's part arabic, part moorish.

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Damn, you were just one letter off from quite possibly the best response ever.

I would be best if you got up and left right now.

Though everyone has a right to his opinion, thankfully many aren't as ignorant about movies and actors as this drivel groundlessly impugning Heston's considerable abilities. As the saying goes, those who are able do or teach (Heston did both), those who aren't able criticize, like thomengel-1.

Remaking this film certainly couldn't hurt anything. It's not like it's really a classic. Actually, it's probably one of the worst epics made during that era. Charlton Heston is just downright awful. How that guy ever got a movie contract bewilders me. He's about the most non-actor of any of the Hollywood non-actors. It isn't fair to judge an actor by the movies he's been in, and Heston has been in some fairly famous movies, but he's a drag to watch. John Wayne is a much better actor than Charlton Heston, and Wayne is pretty mediocre.