Agreed. Perfect tag/cat/description.

Seconded

So you're saying the film industry should follow the video game industry.

Like the bastard child of the video game and the fast food industry.

I was young enough when 12 Monkeys came out to not really know what to expect: I think the 13-year-old me was expecting a Bruce Willis action movie mixed with time travel, and the name Terry Gilliam meant nothing. I bought a ticket to A Goofy Movie or Toy Story and went into 12 Monkeys instead, left confused and disappointed. Bruce Willis didn't jump out of a building or push the bad guy out of a perfectly good airplane, tear someone's scalp off and say a catchphrase like "don't lose your head" things I was conditioned to expect from R rated movies of the time. And there weren't even any monkeys.

But I couldn't get the fucking thing out of my head. As a result I researched Terry Gilliam, found out he directed my favorite movie in the world at the time (Time Bandits) got obsessed with Brazil and the rest, and decided to base my comparative literature major in film studies because of him and this movie.

The difference between a story like 12 Monkeys and Batman is that the story itself is a big red herring, and if you watch La Jetee there isn't a whole lot owed except for the very idea: it's not a remake it's a love letter from Gilliam to Marker. Arguably you could say the same about Nolan's Batman, or Snyder's Watchmen (Gilliam turned down the opportunity to direct it) they're

eh you get the point :)

Cool story brah.






























also mirrors my 12 monkeys story.

There are so many IPs that they haven't beat to death yet.

Where's my Cap'n Crunch movie?
Where's my Facts of Life reboot?

C'mon Hollywood.

I predict the end comes when they remake Breakin' followed by a remake of Breakin' 2.

Kingarthur I think they pretty much did. I didn't see any of the Step Up or the myriad transfigurations of it, but I'm pretty sure they have the same plot.

Ugh. I was curious because Breakin kind of defined that whole overused plot device (girl learns on the streets what she never could at dance academy blah blah blah) and while there's no Breakin remake, I accidentally discovered a story about Peter Weir and Daniel Day Lewis doing a remake of Fitzcarraldo, conveniently posted on April 1st 2008.

Judging by the forums, people were immediately outraged but then when they found out it was a joke they were like "oh that actually could've been kinda cool." I'm not against remakes: Jackson's King Kong did things the original couldn't, as did the new Cosmos. And at the risk of being tarred and feathered, the new Godzilla wasn't that bad. "Because they can" isn't necessarily a bad thing: King Kong fought realistic dinosaurs as the camera followed him down a cliff, Godzilla roars right in your face in beautiful 3d and Cosmos didn't just have "better" special effects, but a lot more facts about our universe that Sagan could only speculate upon.

12 Monkeys on the other hand was perfect like most Gilliam films. Even a Brazil or Munchausen remake would make more sense as it relied heavily on the visuals. And while this isn't a movie I see it playing out a lot like the Dharma in Lost.

Manos 2: Satanic Boogaloo

Known quantities are easier to sell. Not only to audiences, but to investors and studios and networks.

Watchmen was a good example of a 9 hour movie being presented in 2 hours so the audience doesn't know what the fuck is going on. LotR would have sucked if they had to do it all in one movie.

It's still my immediate reaction.

While I was watching it the thought "this is like watching a turd emerge from someones mouth" occurred to me

Peter K. Rosenthal? Is that you?

I've only seen one episode of Fargo and it works because of the setting and the characters, not the story. As far as I know it's a completely different story and Key & Peele are the only people who are actually in Fargo itself. Maybe I'm wrong (I really like what I saw) but that's completely different from 12 Monkeys.

While I can assume we've all seen the movie, I do my best not to spoil things, just say "red herring" a bunch, and from this trailer it's taking from the thing that, for me anyway, was the least important part of the film. Also, Scifi did Dune. Remember Dune? Where's daddy's drinkin' cap!

Fargo the series is unwatchable; please tell me you're kidding.

Shut the fuck up.

k but it sucks, k?

From what I saw, Fargo the TV show has as much to do with Fargo the movie as True Detective the TV show has to do with True Detective comics.

I was going to comment on how crappy the cinematography looked. As you said, there's no reason to remake 12 Monkeys.

I agree with both of you, completely.

aka this is getting cancelled so fast

Nowhere man was filmed in my neighborhood growing up. Never saw it. I don't think anyone did.

Really? Where did your neighborhood grow up? ....bu-dum-dum!

It really does have the same lethargic look to it.

I had to go look this up.

Is real.

Like, you know how the movie never really went anywhere? They just sort of ended it, didn't really leave room for sequels? That was lame. Now, though, SyFy has an opportunity to fix that problem! The first week Cole could be tracking down the Army of the 12 Monkeys. But then the next week he could go back to the future and get a new mission! And then a new mission after that! Brand new assignment each week, just bouncing around history, facing all new villains in different time periods. Maybe Jeff Goines could join Cole as his time-traveling sidekick; Goines was really funneh, I laughed at those silly faces he made! And maybe they could finally explain WTF the deal was with all those giraffes?! Like, did THE GIRAFFES mess up the future, by stomping all over people's cars, or...? idk so confusing!

Yep.
There's a fully-formed puppet & fanboy brigade on the IMDb message boards, already defending this steamer.

It was AMC that did The Prisoner remake, although I thought it was fine until the ending, which was incoherent and baffling. Although, the original didn't really wrap things up very well either.

I can't imagine anyone being happy sitting through a ten hour plus version of 12 Monkeys to arrive at the same ending as the movie. You're only willing to invest so much time in that kind of payoff. So I think there are going to have to be big changes.

My prediction? I'm not going to watch it.