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An update/remake could work


Hollywood. This movie could use an "update" (we all know how you love those). However, this would be cheap, easy and probably be a money-maker.

Websites can easily be made difficult to trace. If you wanted to make a movie where some kid did this by broadcasting over the Internet, it wouldn't be such a bad idea.

It's almost 20 years later, so the stakes of the movie could easily be made higher and really should be.

The NSA could get involved.

It could still center around a nobody kid (I recommend the dude who plays John Conner in the Terminator TV series) and a hot chick who gets him. As much as I hate to say it, that's a plotline that will never change simply because it works.

In an age where pretty much anyone can do anything on the web, someone doing something like this is not that far fetched.

At the end, they have a bunch of kids from around the country getting on the radio and doing the same thing. In this case, you could have the same ending.

And last but not least -- tweens and teens would eat this *beep* up and fill your pockets.

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You my friend, need a smack in the mouth! How DARE you suggest a remake of such a classic! Why not just re-release the movie or even give it a run in the movie theatres again? But re-make? a fricken re-make?? Come on man, re-makes SUCK they always do and they always will, I am sick of Hollywood re-making classics and then turning them in to complete and utter TRASH! Why ruin a good thing? Remember the age-old saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" You stupid tit head.

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I myself was thinking of a sequel: the kid of Christian Slater's and Samantha Mathis' characters doing his (or her) own "pirate radio" thing, acting rebellious against his parents because THEY don't understand "the new generation".

Problem is, I don't think there ain't that much to rebel against nowadays :) ("Dazed and confused" & "Pump up the volume" kind of already used all the best parts and both wrapped up the whole "teen angst" - scenario pretty conclusively)

ps. ALL movies get remade in a 20 - year span. Some just under different names. Can YOU name an original movie in past years? Right now I can only think of two: Memento and Matrix.

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Matrix wasn't original. its a copy of some movie from 5 years before.

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>>Why do remakes and sequel ideas always revolve around kids of the original actors ? Has this even been done before ? I'm really curious to know.

*ahem* Star Wars and The Terminator, for just two suggestions...
And how many sequel titles start with "Son of..." ? (Son of the Blob, Son of the Mask, etc.). Not to mention all those straight-to-video Disney sequels featuring the children of the original characters.

Personally, I'd want a different story about the same characters 20 years later, like The Barbarian Invasions. But I don't think a remake or a sequel would work, simply because (as has been pointed out many times), the issues and plot devices from Pump Up The Volume belonged to a different time. The Internet broke down all the free speech barriers Mark was running against, and now everyone has a voice.

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