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
There was some comedy remake with John Leguiwhatshisname.
shareJohn Leguizamo?
shareI would like to see this movie remade. But I like it to be exactly as the short story is, not any different. I really dont like it when they chage the stories because the writer had a reason to write the story as it is!
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I would like to see this movie remade. But I like it to be exactly as the short story is, not any different. I really dont like it when they chage the stories because the writer had a reason to write the story as it is!
maybe not as a feature. Connell's story is 8000 words, a short written for a pulp magazine. Any screen feature would have to expand on it to some degree, flesh out the characters, add dialog, etc.
That a screen adaptation is not sufficiently like the original material is a very common complaint, but it really reveals a lack of understanding of what has to go into screenwriting. We have to be content with an adaptation which will never be the same as the original, but the best adaptations capture the flavor of the original in a new medium.
The Pest
shareMy thoughts exactly! There was a 1932 version, but I never saw it! But Hey! if you ever find out of someone who wants to re-make this movie- or already has plans to do so, from the short story that bears the same name... please tell me! (Goodness- let me know! ***GRIN*** I'd love to start a discussion about it and definitely offer any help I can with making it!)
Just a thought.
God bless!
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JOSHUA 1:7-8, BIBLE.
I just saw this parodied on Codename: Kid's Next Door .. and I think it was also done on Dial M For Monkery (Dexter's Lab anyone?) .. what? Cartoons pwn.
Anyhow, I have a feeling that at the rate remakes are going nowadays, it'd take a really talented director to pull off a good remake. I'd say Peter Jackson, maybe, but something feels off about saying that ..
David Fincher could do it.
shareThere was also a variation on The Most Dangerous Game in an episode of Get Smart in the 1966-67 season. Harold Gould played Hans Hunter who hunts down homo sapiens for sport on St Germain island. In the beginning of the episode he hunts down a man, kills him and ships his body to Washington in a crate. Agents Smart and 99 go to the island and are hunted and almost killed. The way it was filmed was unusually suspenseful for what was supposed to be a sitcom.
shareWikipedia has a decent article on the story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game
Did the writers of Predator credit The Most Dangerous Game as their inspiration? It is a different story because Most Dangerous Game isn't just manhunting. There are two elements to it: he captures them and sets them free, then he hunts them. The Predator didn't capture the special forces and release them. He simply hunted them.
shareyeah def like to see a remake
shareApparently I'm the only one who's seen the 1991 remake "Deadly Game" with Michael Beck, Marc Singer and Roddy McDowell. It's currently not in the movie connections here nor mentioned on wikipedia. It was definitely a step up from Leguizamo's annoying "The Pest," but still nothing special. There's way too many remakes these days, and if past remakes have been any indication, they should just leave this classic alone.
shareThat makes sense.
Every classic film has to have some post about a re-make. leave it alone! i can't think of one re-make that was better than the original . but there a loads of bad ones... king kong, planet of the apes, and charlie (willie wonka) and the chocolate factory just to name 3. no remakes!!!!
Seems like the Fantasy Island pilot was also pretty similar. Good pilot.
shareI would love to see this remade!
Actually, it's been remade, redone, reworked, and/or recycled many times.
1. A Game of Death (1945)
2. Run for the Sun (1956)
The two films above are actual remakes of the 1932 film, while the listing below are films that incorporate the whole hunted man/woman theme.
3. Bloodlust! (1961)
4. The Tenth Victim (1965)
5. The Naked Prey (1966)
4. The Suckers (1972)
6. The Woman Hunt (1972)
7. Hard Target (1993)
8. Surviving the Game (1994)
9. Escape 2000 aka Turkey Shoot (1982)
10. Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)
11. Deadly Prey (1987)
12. The Running Man (1987)
13. Lethal Woman (1988)
14. Surviving the Game (1994)
15. The Pest (1997)
16. The Eliminator (2004)
17. Mindhunters (2004)
18. Predators (2010)
19. Deadliest Prey (2013)
20. Beyond the Reach (2014)
To a lesser degree....
21. Battle Royale (2000)
22. Predator (1987)
23. The Hunger Games films
24. Spartacus (1960)
25. Targets (1968)
And these are just feature films. The list of shorts, TV episodes, radio programs, etc. goes on and on.
Both "The Flintstones" and the prime time adventure "Run for your Life" used a HEALTH based vartiaiton tiheme., the title of the second show, says it all. In a Dec.1961 Flintstone, "X-ray Story", Dino's kinda ill, so the doctor looks and finds a "dinoipeptic" germ then hands the x-ray gives it to a nurse, who in turn places it on the window (amd no screens in the Stone age ha ha) and then blows into a cop's hands, whereupon he takes it to the office doc, who, with the presence of only FRED's name, justifiably thinks it's Fred Flintstone who has the germ, and as a doc, knows of the above, visiting Wilma and prescribing the one cure:STAYING awake, and 72 hgours (THREE times the Richard Connell hunter 24 hours!) Naturally, Fred's confounded byn it all, but it turns out happily. In "Run for your Life'", a man has a dred disease and keeps running, spending several prime-time 1960s TV seasons, but with no hunter, it turns out more like "THE FUGITIVE" ha ha.
Also
HUNGER GAMES
and
THE MAZE RUNNER
for current day, teen/yound adult takes
(none of these on Islands)
and The Pest, for a very lighthearted 1997 movie take.
The GIlligan one that I mention, is in large parts unsually dramamtic.
The latest version is 2020's The Hunt. I loved this film, and Crystal (played by Betty Gilpin) is my new
all time favorite female BAD ASS!
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