Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2019

xpost inasmuch as it felt completely empty and everything since has looked utterly terrible so I haven't seen it

curious about Big Eyes for Karazewski / Alexander script though

Big Eyes kind of sucked; beautiful set design for the home though. Script just didn't work great and that story should have been ore compelling. The Burton touch is very light.

I think the last film of his I enjoyed seeing was Sweeny Todd and not sure how I'd feel about that now. If Corpse Bride counts I'd say that's his last really good film.

pet semetary looks like fun. I'm all for a slew of King reboots and remakes.

oh wow this might be the grimmest one of these lists yet. i'm gonna have to ponder this.

I thought Big Eyes was pretty decent and a nice (sort of) change.

I hope the Playmobil movie sets up the Kinder Eggs trilogy like they've been teasing this whole time. Fan service or not, it's what I want to see.

I'm cool with the Starry Eyes peeps but having rewatched it recently I can confirm that Pet Semetary is hardly among the King adaptations begging to be remade.

Hey I know, even though it's only been a couple of years why not take a stab at a Dark Tower adaptation that somehow avoids being universally panned?

because the series itself is an actual car crash ending

I hated Burton’s Willy Wonka remake too much to be properly outraged by his Alice. Also, I only got about 30 mins into it.

Is it a 'remake' of the first movie or a new adaptation of King's book?

because the book is one of his best. No reason someone else shouldn't have a crack at it

Well, it's an unnecessary readaptation, then.

I still wanna know why no one's taken a crack at The Long Walk yet (possibly my favorite).

xpost

You bring up a good point. If this is another go at adapting a well known novel, than it shouldn't be here for the same reason that I didn't include Greta Gerwig's Little Women. I guess it comes down to determining whether the filmmaker is treating the source material as the novel or the earlier adaptations. In both cases, the popularity of these novels likely outweighs the popularity of any one film adaptation of either of them. I shouldn't have included it.

Stephen King is the franchise.

Hey I know, even though it's only been a couple of years why not take a stab at a Dark Tower adaptation that somehow avoids being universally panned?

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Glass was fairly hilarious. bring back two characters nobody's seen in almost 20 years, give them very little dialogue or purpose, and have most of the talking done by the psychiatrist sitting in a chair. 45% of the movie.

i believe sopranos has a similar idea

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Predicting now that the (correct) winner will also make the most money and get a sequel.

I only just learned this morning that somehow Aquaman is a massive, billion-dollar-+ global hit instead of the hideous tanking bomb it so obviously ought to be (this is based on not watching it, because why would I do that to myself?).

Oh, I see Aquaman wasn't even an option. nor Bumblebee.

Both released last year in the states.

Have a vague suspicion that Bumblebee is secretly launching a Transfomers reboot series tho.

heard Bumblebee described as "basically a horse/girl movie"

Bumblebee was actually...fun. slight but fun.

More family friendly

Have actually heard good things, first non-animated Transformers movie I've had the slightest spark of interest in, sometimes these cynical cash-ins can surprise u

Sorry, I am in Australia and also very old, so for all I know these movies came out in 2014

Child's Play
- assuming this is just the 8th Child's Play by Don Mancini, keep going man. If it's some dumb remake, I hope Mancini gets a bunch of money and wanted to stop

so it turns out this is some dumb remake, but Don Mancini, the creator of Child's Play and writer of every movie and director of most, did NOT want to stop and is now doing a Chucky TV show that may or may not be in a third continuity

Son of Shaft
- afaik the Sam Jackson one was already Son Of Shaft and that was fuckin' NINETEEN YEARS AGO. I'm down if it's Jackson playing his own son this time though

so it turns out Sam Jackson was the NEPHEW of Shaft in the 2000 Shaft, but he is Shaft again in the 2019 Shaft, but now Richard Roundtree (of the 1971 Shaft and Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft In Africa (1973)) is the grandfather of Jacksonshaft's son John Shaft III?

also, it is called Shaft, not Son Of Shaft, probably due to this confusing and dumb situation. wake me up when they have the guts to finally adapt the second novel though

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zjeSwmEp5AY/Tn5dD6e8IBI/AAAAAAAAIaA/7s8cwkonUg4/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Shaft+Among+the+Jews-1.jpg

omg

The way things are going we’ll be waking sic up before the decade’s out tbf

- this seems pretty ill-advised all around but Mignola seems to have pursued it actively so he can do what he likes

turns out iii: he's been cutting the creators of B.P.R.D. characters out of participation and royalties, so fuck this one too :(

"The Addams Family
- wtf? anyway I just saw Addams Family Values for the first time two months ago and I'm down if Ricci is in it and Sonnenfeld's directing"

neither are; it's a computer animated thing. sounds terrible, could be good, who fucking knows

If it has a remake of Hammer's "Addams's Groove", this movie will be amazing

It is in fact a feature-length adaptation of the 'Addams Groove' video so you're in for a treat, yeah.

pretty ill-advised all around but Mignola seems to have pursued it actively

nope:

What were your conversations with director Neil Marshall like?
Well, I never … I mean, I never really had much of a conversation with Neil. I only met him once or twice, I guess, before filming began.

Why allow a new, rebooted movie to happen?
I have no say in these matters because I don’t hold the film rights.

If one considers what is inherently promised by these sequels and reboots, one finds that the promise is often fulfilled.

detective pikachu

it’s good, folks

This sure looks like a contender, folks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R1-ZZTcTBY

I have zero attachment to the Banana Splits but the fact that this is happening makes me IA.

https://www.tor.com/2019/07/05/almost-every-sff-horror-comic-book-upcoming-adaptation/

List was so long I couldn't look at each one.

I imagine some of these will be in development for another decade.

between the new Ghostbusters and the computer-animated Scooby-Doo reboot titled Scoob!, 2020 is shaping up to be the year it was too late to cancel projects after Terminator: Dark Fate and Charlie's Angels

Oh my god, is there seriously a fucking Fantasy Island movie coming to theaters next year

Why does Hollywood hate us so deeply?

(To be released the same day as Sonic the Hedgehog, so start saving your nickels now, kids.)

omg @ Scoob!

I just scrolled through the slate of movies scheduled for next year and...honestly, it's the most depressing lineup of sequels and reboots maybe ever. Quite a herculean feat, I know, but they really pulled out all the stops for 2020.

Who does Hollywood imagine is the audience for a Fantasy Island movie?

The Montalban estate and the Landers sisters?