Would you like to see this re-made?
And if so, who would you choose for cast and director?
shareJohnathan Depp as Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson as Dustin Hoffman
Hayden Panettiere as Sharon Stone
Joel McHale as 18 year old man-baby Ph.D who dies from bad candy corn, but not before his mushroom/DMT visionscape sequence
James Earl Jones as The Sphere...yes, this time it's ALIVE
Queen latifah as her same role so I can see her die again. Yeah, that's for 7 seasons of Livin Single!
Will Ferrel as the crazy military man
Director...uhh crap I dunno any good directors...Robert Rodriguez?
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No, I don't think it needs a remake. It's fine just the way it is.
People need to stop the remake fever, or at least remake stuff that really begs for it.
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This version is already extremely close to the book. What would be the reason to remake it?
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Are you kidding? I've read the book like three times, it ain't that close. A remake would definitely do this disappointing movie justice if you have the right people working on it.
shareGot to agree, I loved the book and was really excited about the film, sadly it failed to capture the tone of the book entirely. Big diassapointment, but then that can be said about about of the movies made from Crichtons (RIP) books. Terminal Man, Jurassic Parks, Rising Sun.... the andromeda was ok though I guess.
shareThe only problem I had with the book was nicely solved by the movie, in that if anyone still knows about it, and the Sphere was left on the ocean floor, why would the encounter with the black hole not be known about?
I just had a hard time believing that a ship that survived a black hole, a high speed crash into earth, and 300 years on the ocean floor would be so easily destroyed, let alone the alien Sphere being destroyed.
Great book though regardless of that, I just really like the movie also.
And why the hell did the movie completely cut out the big twist at the end of the book? The fact that one of the crew left alive did NOT chose to forget the Sphere, retaining it's power....
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I think they were trying to leave it up in the air with the movie. That's just how I've always seen it.
shareThis version is already extremely close to the book.
Obviously you haven't read it if you're being serious.
The only thing that is "extremely close" are the chapter titles, that's about it.
Practically everything else is completely changed (unneccesarily I might add) from the
character archs, to the deaths, to the ending, and to the plot in general.
Not to mention all the psychological suspense of the novel is completely lost to the film
(although it would be hard to adapt it without having endless inner-monologue.)
I mean heck, they even changed Normans last name from Johnson to Goodman.
Like wtf? Did they think he sounded more realistic as a jew?
This movie is an injustice, and the entire last half and ending is just laughable compared to the novel.
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I'm usually against remakes but this could have been so much better. everything but the story was horrible
shareyou don't remake bad movies...you reboot them...
this doesn't deserve either.
it is a mediocre at best...though i can imagine the book being far better
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Johnathan Depp as Samuel L. JacksonI dunno that just cracked me up. Even Johnny Depp never referred to himself as "Johnathan," ROFL...I don't think I ever saw him in the credits referred to as Johnathan, either. Plus the way you said it, Johnny Depp playing Samuel L. Jackson, rather than Jackson's character, that sounds like Depp's trying to literally act like Samuel L.!
And my god, effing Will Ferrel...why the HELL do people think he's got to be in friggin everything?! Personally I don't find him remotely funny beyond SNL-quality (which isn't saying much), and it's beyond me how people find him entertaining enough to actually want to see more of his annoying "dummy humor." I chuckled at him a couple times, but he's way too over-saturated, more than he deserves. He could basically be the poster-boy for America's horrible taste in the tripe cranking out of Hollywood on a consistent basis, like one big, long turd. Sphere wasn't a comedy. Just because a character was "crazy" doesn't mean it should be played by a dunce comedian; crazy doesn't denote humor.
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