Bryan Singer has just been attached to a remake of Excaliber.
Variety article here
Good God Almighty!
Stop! Stop with the remakes. The original Excaliber is a great movie and I really don’t see Singer being able to bring anything to it to make it better.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Bryan Singer needs to find original material. Stop remaking and re imagining things. Leave the nostalgia on your DVD shelves at home and look for something NEW to work on. Stay away from Battlestar, leave Excaliber alone.
And for future reference, we don’t need you doing a Brisco County Movie, No ER film, and Die Hard is left well alone thank you.
Singer’s not a bad director, I liked X-Men one, Valkyrie had some moments, though it was too long. But his Superman was rubbish. The script was terrible and it seemed like was was just writing a love letter to earlier movies with his directing of Superman Returns.
I understand loving old movies and TV shows, I have many and watch them often, but that doesn’t mean we need them remade.
Apt Pupil was solid, and The Usual Suspects is one of my all-time favorite movies, but beyond those two, the dude really needs to keep his ass OUT of the director's chair.
The I fail to see the logic behind his obsession with remakes.
Bryan,
Please look through the millions of scripts that are presented to you. Find a small script that tweaks your interest and run with it. The Usual Suspects was brilliant, it is time to go back to the kind of film that made you.
I believe we have quite a while to go before we escape the clutches of 'The remake culture' which is frothing around in the film/tv media right now.
Maybe we should start pushing for remakes of books!