Given, I don't usually like remakes. But if done well with a properly chosen director and a good cast, I would definitely see it in the theatre. The most dangerous game has been my favorite short story since I was young, and nothing would give me more joy than to see it on the big screen.
I am NOT Lady-Eowyn
Michael Landon remade this, in his own variation in the 430th episode aired of the Bonanza TV series in 1972. It was sheer genius, written, directed and he starred in it with Tom Skerritt. Made in Arizona and is the best and only remake of it ever feated. It could easily top the original. It was the last episode aired on January 16, 1973.
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You compare a "Bonanza" episode with this classic film??? You have a screw loose.
shareI have been taking a bunch of old stories that I read in high school and before and rewriting them into screen form. I am just now finishing L'Etranger or The Stranger by Albert Camus and will soon begin the adaption of The Most Dangerous Game.
One day you will see this again, and hopefully nobody beats me to it.
Ohhhhh Kamikaze, you have competion. I've always been desparate to adapt The Most Dangerous Game. We'll see who's first.
~If you say "I had everything under control" one more time I'm going to slap you with my guitar.~
And in counterpoint to that BONANZA, let us not forget the episode of "The Incredible Hulk" in which David Banner finds himself on a similar island with a similar mad hunter. Only that outing simply contrived through and through.
shareSee my post on GILLIGAN'S ISLAND above.:)
shareIt was remade. The new title is "Surviving the Game" and it stars Ice-T.
"It entered our airspace last night and made a mockery of our intercept squadrons."
Actually, it was remade at least a dozen times (check the "movie connections" entry for this movie), which is no surprise given its basic "manhunt" premise.
shareThat wasn't a bad movie. I am watching The Most Dangerous Game right now.
I think The Naked Prey is similar (haven't seen it).
Also: wasn't there an episode of Gilligan's Island with the same theme? (obviously not with the same intensity)
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You are 100% right riemann17. Gilligan's Island has been my favorite TV show since I first saw it in 1972 (when 4, first thing I ever remember seeing). But Episode 80 of it, The Hunter, which is one of my top five episodes of it, has this movie's theme, when big game hunter Jonathon Kincaid and his assistant Ramoo land on the island looking for big game, and when he learns of the cataways situation there he decides to hunt one of them, as this gives him the perfect opportunity. He then chooses Gilligan, and hunts him for 24 hours, from one morning to the next, over the island while Ramoo guards the other castaways in a cave (saying if Gilligan can elude him for this time he'll call off the hunt and rescue them). Gilligan does elude him and survive, though he refuses to rescue them and he and Ramoo leave the island (and like all of Gilligan's Island this was mainly comedy, and no it did not have this movie's intensity-though you do get the hunter/hunted feel during it). I know other shows have had variations on it, though I've never seen any others, but I did read the short story by Richard Connell in 9th grade English class in fall, 1982, and remember it well. I've also never seen this movie, but would like to and hope to on DVD (and it has four of the original King Kong performers in it, the year before they did that movie, and was filmed in some of the same locations King Kong was as well). I recently asked at a Blockbuster Video store, and they said it was out on DVD (in 1999). And about the original topic on here, I would definitely like to see this movie remade. It was a very good adventure story, with heavy dramatic undertones, and I think it would do very well in modern theatres with modern stars (just as King Kong's remake did last winter), and as I did that movie I would definitely go to see this one as well. But remade or not, I do hope to see this original on DVD very soon.
"I happen to be a vegetarian". Lex, from Jurrasic Park
It has been remade many times; perhaps the best version after the original is Run for the Sun and the worst but funniest version is Blood Lust wonderfully lampooned by the MST3K crowd.
Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.
Seeing this remade would be extremley annoying(and would piss me off so alot), but I suppose we could use another version of this film.
A.R.F., the Anti Remake Force
It was remade many many times (especially in B-movies) but the best remake so far is definitely "Predator". Think about it, it was a highly advanced and highly sophisticated hunter (okay, so it was an alien) and he hunts down people for pleasure through a jungle. The best remake of this movie.
shareI like 'Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity', myself :).
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This great classic movie has been an inspiration to many film makers both good and bad. It actually has been remade many times under different names. Besides the above it was remade as "Lethal Woman" a B movie about an Army woman who was raped by a general who goes mad after wards and buys an island. There with the help of other rape victims she lures rapists to the island and hunts them down. It was also redone on the old Inredible Hulk show in which David Banner is lured onto the island by a mad man who doesn't know of course that he is the hulk. You're right, though, it would be cool to see the origional remade as itself.
sharecan forget Jumanji, that had the hunter from the jungle too, and the pest which was really really horrible
sharei wrote a script for this movie and me and some of my friends made a movie about this book and it turned out really good... i played zaroff
shareI remember that episode of "The Hulk!!!"
Let's not forget the episode of Matt Houston where our hero is hunted by superkiller Chuck Connors in an abandoned amusement park!!!
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I've never listened to ole radio readings but this sounds really interesting. Are these avialable anywhere?
shareI would like it also. I liked the movie, and I LOVED the short story. Only problem is that thet would have to stretch it to make it run full length.
shareHey Lady, this has been remade many times including "Game of Death" and "Run for the Sun". It has been remade more than most flix and "Run" is not bad at all with Trevor Howard as the villain!
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