If you could pick one director to remake it.

If I had to pick one director to remake Seven Samurai it would be Quentin Tarentino. The bandits would call Kikuchiyo, “The BEAR samurai!”…

What do you guys think? Please don’t limit yourself to seven samurai. You can pick any classic film and choose a modern director to remake it, and tell what you’d think it’d be like.

I never want to see any film remade…ever.

I’m well aware that remakes are evil, evil things. I myself despise them, however, if you just HAD to pick one director, who you think it would be amusing to see remake a film, who and what would it be?

Thanks for the thread, Robert. I’m sure you had good intentions, as did the people responsible for this upcoming project. No film should be regarded as great enough to not be recycled by Hollywood and converted into garbage. And my pick would be Takashi Miike.

Michel Gondry for Drop Dead Fred.

“I never want to see any film remade…ever.”

I second that!

Akira Kurosawa.

I’d rather a dead man remake his own film than any living director even attempt it.

oh mon dieu. People are terribly misunderstanding the meaning of this thread. I’m a huge Kurosawa fan and I, like you would never like to see it remade by anyone either. I wasn’t saying (or maybe I did say, unintentionally) that these remakes SHOULD happen, I was only asking what you think would be an amusing combination. And I’m shocked and appalled to see a remake of Seven Samurai is actually in the works… I feel like I jinx’d it or something.

oh mon dieu. People are terribly misunderstanding the meaning of this thread. I’m a huge Kurosawa fan and I, like you would never like to see it remade by anyone either. I wasn’t saying (or maybe I did say, unintentionally) that these remakes SHOULD happen, I was only asking what you think would be an amusing combination. And I’m shocked and appalled to see a remake of Seven Samurai is actually in the works… I feel like I jinx’d it or something.

Y’all know it was already remade in 1960 as The Magnificent Seven, right? While nowhere near as good as the original, the result wasn’t half bad.

I would like Steven Sodebergh to remake Solaris badly.

(okay. unfair. Solaris was a book. just being a jerk.)

Lloyd Kaufman – The Seven Tromurai! Or how about a Larry Clark remake with a teenage cast?

We should get more classic directors to remake newer crappy films instead of newer crappy directors ruining classic films.

In that spirit I propose that Stanley Donen should come out of retirement to remake Chicago!

All I want to do is watch Cronenberg’s THE FLY all the time….

Remake Seven Samurai? John Woo

It has been remade, at least once.

I want Peter Jackson to remake The Karate Kid. Considering that his King Kong was longer than both the original and the first remake put together, I just think it would be intensely amusing to have a five hour long Karate Kid epic movie (before the DVD comes out with the two more hours of added footage and 36 hours of special features, including production notes, in a box so big no display case can hold it, because video store clerks LOVE those spider locks!)

—PolarisDiB

Clint Eastwood should remake Gone with the Wind. I’m not a big fan of either (Million Dollar Baby made me cry; I like Vivien Leigh) but have to admit those two things go together probably real well.

also seven samurai was remade in both
Samurai Seven (the anime, re-imagined)
and also
A Bug’s Life steals the plot quite a bit

Bela Tarr should remake Seven Samurai and set it in Hungary.

I think he would call it Sátánsamurái.

No one. There’s no reason to. It’s already been remade/reimagined several times and there isn’t much to do now. Lovely movie, just one that doesn’t need a remake (again).