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Number Five is under the control of Bob Weinstein! Poor Johnny Five!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. We've been hearing word of a SHORT CIRCUIT remake for a little while now, but it seems that Bob Weinstein is now making the flick at Dimension.
The good news is they're bringing SHORT CIRCUIT creators SS Wilson and Brent Maddock in to script. They wrote the original two films and will be writing the remake. Now the real question... will they write in a character for Steve Guttenberg and will we see Fisher Stevens anywhere in this project? Will they find someone as adorable as Ally Sheedy was in the original? And, maybe most importantly, will we be able to recognize Johnny Five as a character? Will Tim Blaney return for his voice? Us children of the '80s MUST HAVE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS!
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Just replace Oscar with Bob Weinstein kicking the crap out of Five.
NO PLEASE, DO NOT KILL AM ALIIIIIIIVE!!!!
Seriously that scene scarred my tiny eight year old mind on release. -
Any money taking for a dismantled Johnny Five being found by a group of kids and him making friends. One kid in the group doesn't like him and tips of nasty scientists/Nova/Nazis as to his location. In the third act they make amends, escape the bad guys, one of the bad guys turns good and they all live happily ever after.
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...fucked. And the pointless remake trend continues ever onward. Aint gonna be long until they start raiding the 90's now...
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Are there no original ideas out there?
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Spielberg's vocal ejaculation state that "Shia can do anything!" (shudder), so why not...
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Apr 04, 2008 6:35:32 AM CDT
By the way, if this flies, War Games will be next.
by stalin vs predator
Only they'll tie it to "war on terror" and somehow try to kick George Bush in the plot.
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No original ideas left in Hollywood. Thank god for 80s movies and comic books, otherwise the film industry would be extinct.
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Los Locos kick your face! Los Locos kick your balls into outer space!
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Anything that was made between 1980 and 1989 is up for grabs in the remake/retelling/rebooting orgy that's going on in la-la land.
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So the idea that in a couple of years I can hopefully share one of my first childhood loves with my new nephew/niece really appeals to me. JUST DON'T FUCK IT UP WIENERSTEIN!
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Apr 04, 2008 6:48:19 AM CDT
from horrors to kids classics - the rape of the 80s continues
by filmcoyote
so i guess we can expect remakes of Neverending Story, Flight of The Navigator, Goonies, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, WarGames et al now. Write something original for god's sake!
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You have the facility to share one of your childhood loves with your new nephew/niece now, it's called DVD, perhaps you've heard of it. Seriously, i've been giving me nieces and nephews DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones, Jungle Book, all kinds for years - i was also able to take my nephew to a one-off ET screening in London a couple of years back - otherwise they only see the new shit and will end up thinking DreamWorks Animation make good movies (God forbid!). My nephew had never heard of ET when we saw it he loved it and wanted it on DVD for the following Christmas. Seriously buy your new relation Short Circuit on DVD.
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In a turnabout of the original films can we have a whited up Kal Penn play Steve Guttenburg's character?
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...we all know that you will hire some hack who never saw the original for the rewrite.
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why not do a sequel instead?Who needs a remake of Short Circuit?Why doesnt they show how Johnny lives in 2009?HOLY MOTHER OF A FUCK!
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When Johnny 5 started leaking oil, i thought he was bleeding to death.
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Hell yes DVD/Blu-ray/Digital Downloads is going to be shoved down that kid's throat. It's first disney film is either going to be the 1st Rescuers film or Sword In The Stone but I like the idea of remakes/reimaginings for a new audience. It's a pain to admit but a lot of kids can't properly watch a film over 10 years old because they get hung up on details (why are the clothes funny? why is the hair huge? why is the sky blue etc.) & I doubt I'll ever see the original Short Circuit put up on the big screen in the Birmingham area (an £80 ticket to London for the day is SO not happening)I've never had lil' relations before so i am probably being uber-skeptical of how they relate to film but i loved seeing kids come out of the cinema last summer absolutely jazzed about Transformers & a good 30-40% of parents were probably going to schlep them home & make them watch the original movie afterwards as a treat! Apologies if this comes across as a ramble but I'm trying to reply when I should be rushing to the hospital.
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WALL-E = Numer Five.
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"Who's Johnny?" Damn you all.
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I watched 7th Voyage of Sinbad the other day with my nephew, and he loved it. He didn´t care about stop-motion FX or anything.
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The original is still watchable today.
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and especially Short Circuit 2 were extremely racist in their portrayal or the asian guy. I know it was a kids movie but I saw it again recently and it just made me cringe. So long as they steer clear of the racial stereotypes there's a huge amount they can improve on.
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that after this and t4 comes out well get to "enjoy" ROBOT MOVIE; wont that be great. After that there would be no more genres to spoof and we'll all feel safe but then theyd hit us with "SPOOF MOVIE" or "MOVIE MOVIE".
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Military robot with destructive capabilities is struck by lightning and gets loose. Throw in a wacky, English-mangling Indian character and...someone's got serious fuckin' sack to try and take this project on, nowadays.
I loved SHORT CIRCUIT when I was younger (and somehow, I think I still would love it), but come on! Someone's about three days too late with this news. -
You cannot recapture the spirit of Short Circuit without a white actor in 'brownface' doing a pre-Apu Indian accent. It is a pre-requisite for success!In other news, am I the only one who would actually kind of like to see a Ghostbusters remake? The original is great, obviously, but it's such a good concept that I'd love to see someone else have a bash at updating it. That Judd Apatow and his mates, maybe. That could be funny.
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NO, there is no good news Quint. Even if they have the original writers--WHY THE NEED FOR A REMAKE? Everyone knows remakes have always been a part of Hollywood history, but here in our modern era, it's just getting out of hand. There are tons of people out there trying to fight their way into the industry filled with new, original and creative ideas, but instead we're treated to all this remake shit they keep churning out. THIS IS PISSING ME OFF
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I wasn't a big GB fan but with the right treatment and todays fx it could be fun. I Don't think Short Circuit deserves a redux.
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Just sayin'.
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My blood just ran ice cold at the suggestion. If this idea EVER gets seriously considered...then I will hunt down whoever is involved and burn them alive. Mark my words.
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and they called it Bicentennial man?? hehehehe I hated that movie, especially when the robot got genetalia. I mean come on! Oh ya Short Circuit? I can see this being remade, as much as I love the first two, I think a more modern spin is called for. Are the first two even out on DVD?
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I love the Short Circuit movies even more than E.T. Don't fuck it up, movie people. And yes, we all want Ghostbusters 3.
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Only reason Weinstein wanted this.
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The original was brilliant, but I can't see them getting away with Fisher Stevens all blacked up and doing his fake Indian accent. Why not do a sequel instead? Get Guttenberg and Sheedy back (they can't be doing much) and do something relevant to today like Number 5 strapping on his laser gun and going to fight the terrorists... actually fuck that idea.
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I loved Fisher Stephens in that role. For years I actually thought the guy was of real Indian decent. He totally had me fooled. That’s a mark of a talented actor. Since I’m anti-political correctness, I say they should “black up” Fisher again. Hollywood doesn’t seem to have any problems stereotyping obese people, so I say it’s fair game to stereotype all sexes, races and ethnicities.
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...sorry Johnny. Harry and the Hendersons?...now There is a gold plated property!
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But War Games cannot be remade and not suck and blow simultaneously. War Games was made in a time where you had to dial into computers, everything was pretty much green letters on black screens, there was no Internet, and so on. Any version of War Games would have to be on the Internet, and it would suck. The only way to re-make Wargames and have it be remotely as good as the original is set it in the 80s . . . and which point, what's the point?
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Who's Johnny?
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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The whole cast of SC1 and 2 were tongue in cheek, with Stephens' character being the most blatant - but the most humourous. He had some great lines (pants blazing indeed) and having rewatched the first not long back I can appreciate there was a lot of innuendo for the dragged along parents.
In Western culture we now live in an insanely PC culture. Of course they won't do the same character in the remake, bar maybe a token reference.
They'll just have to make do with using cheap white stereotypes instead.
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Robots are hot now. However, this is a case of "If it ain't broke". Or rather "Short Circuit 2 was broken so don't beat a dead horse."
The original was perfect and I don't need to know what meticlurians are, dammit. -
You're wanted on the set.
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The old one still holds up just fine.
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I hope there's another scene with Johnny Five channel-surfing and lingering on each and every commercial just long anough for the product jingle to play out in full. Even as a kid I found that scene tacky as hell.
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I haven't seen Short Circuit since the early 90s. I had no idea that the Indian guy was actually a white guy and the dude from Lost. That is crazy. I need to watch the movie again. I can't believe the studio actually got away with that. I always wondered what happened to that actor since SC2. The only reason this is being made is b/c of Wall.E, but not out of competition. After Wall.E brings in over $300 mil domestice, a live action movie with a similar looking/sounding robot will easily ride its hype to $100 mil, despite its quality.
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...apart from Johnny 5, and everyone loved his character. It was just a comic relief character, no more insulting than any other such comedic character, and a lot more endearing than most, and I don't see how it's any more racist than Apu on The Simpsons (also voiced by a white guy, hello?), or any different than Eddie Murphy in Rick Baker makeup playing a white jewish guy or whatever else. Or even Michael J Fox playing his own daughter (albeit badly) in Back To The Future Part 2. People have taken the whole PC thing way too far these days, and I think real people know the difference between something that's done with good intentions and something that's done in a manner that truly is degrading or insulting.
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right now! RIGHT THIS INSTANT. And from here on in for the next 10 years. Lets just re-make every god damn movie from the 80. JUST RELIVE it all over again. I mean everything from The Empire Strikes Back to Mannequin to Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Amadeus. Lets just stop dicking around and admit that VH1 was right. Everyone and there mom love the 80's, so much so that we are just going to relive it. I mean we are about to have another 72 year old president who share a lot of similarites. Lets just do it again.
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I KNEW someone would re-do this flick. When Transformers was about a month or two away from being released, and the buzz was huge, I knew all the studios would be clamoring to get their hands on any old 80's pop culture properties and/or anything having to do with robots. And I knew Short Circuit would fall right in the crosshairs of those two concepts. Shit, I should've put money on it!
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They will be a continuing factor just as sequels. If they bring back the writers, why not bring back John Badham?? He was the go-to-guy for scripts that fell off Spielberg's desk, then slide off Richard Donner's desk...He's now directing Las Vegas and Psych??? Put the guy back on the big screen.
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Poor Johnny 5, he should really get on that and sue the fuck out of WALL-E.
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a) A house full of hot chicks.
b) A house full of geeky nerds.
c) Cindy Sheehan
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the "happy birthday Paulie" robot from Rocky IV and the Riptide robot. Fuck yeah, this thing will suck balls.
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Why would someone do this? I loved the first one as a kid but even I know that the sequel sucked and that they were beating a dead horse. Give us a proper sequel (80's robot spouting riff's on 80's pop culture set in 08) or nothing at all please.
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Seriously. And also, any movie that uses Bonnie Tyler's "I Need a Hero" during a climactic rescue scene is worth watching (also in SHREK 2)
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...recognize that this movie does not hold up at all, and a remake would be silly. I certainly would not attend for nostalgia's sake.
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Imagine Owen and Luke replacing The Gutt as Two Bros who work in they're dads company (American chopper vibe)Which builds robots and autonomous vehicles for the military defense program. Then you drop in a hot chick the robot runs away too (Hopefully of Latin descent)and you got that whole Luke, Han Solo, R2D2 love triangle thing going. Who plays the Indian Stereotype Jabituya?
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Can this be assumed?
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The original film had the bond form between Stephanie and Johnny- I think today's audiance would have a harder time rebuying into that plot. What if the woman has a child this time. a young kid could totally play out that "He's real, He my best friend, I love him, don't hurt him" stuff
Maybe the kid is a loner with no friends- maybe a group of kids pick on him. Maybe the kid honors something his father did. Like maybe he likes to dress up as soldier (Louis from The Boy Who Could Fly)
Now our the hot chick is a hot single Mom.
Real question is- Is she divorced or is her Husband dead. If he died.
Iraq war...
His name could have been John, and the 5 could come from something in his rank or the number of medals he was awarded, or something that. This is explains how the robot gets the name Johnny 5.
Basically the robot becomes this kids new father figure of sorts, and it beats up those kids who pick on him. -
Can't do that again.
What if a group of terrorist or a foreign government hired thieves stole the robot, and accidentally activated IT when they tried to destroy it's on board Global GPS location device, They triggered it's attack mode. It went ape shit and it caused them to crash there vas into a car the van flips over and hits a telephone pole. Johnny 5 falls out of the back doors into the street and hits the dropped telephone pole line. Doing essentially what the lightening strike did in the original. Now you have the army and some terrorist group and or foreign spy looking for him. -
Can't do that again.
What if a group of terrorist or a foreign government hired thieves stole the robot, and accidentally activated IT when they tried to destroy it's onboard Global GPS location device, This triggered IT's attack mode. IT went ape shit and IT caused them to crash there van into an oncoming car. The van flips over and hits a telephone pole. Johnny 5 falls out of the back doors into the street, he hits the dropped telephone pole line. Doing essentially what the lightening strike did too him in the original. Now you have the army and some terrorist group and or foreign spy looking for him.
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Good call, sapno_krei.Especially abou the Holding Out for a Hero climax. Awesome stuff. Johnny 5 slowly dying still gets me now. If anything I'm even more of a sucker for it than I was 15-odd years ago.
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Sadly he wasn't "Vista capable."
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do studios continue to remake great movies that should be left alone.short circuit is a classic from my chldhood.next thing you know there will be a goonies remake.FUCK JUST COME ORIGINAL AS 311 WOULD SAY.on a funny note i bought this dvd about a month ago and the 20 year old cashier had no idea wtf this movie was.or who Steve Guttenberg was.fuckin kids today
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...is if they get El Debarge to do the soundtrack. Thats the hidden ingredient in the movie's secret formula.
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love seeing the local shots
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I think it would be great if they remade this film. Instead of obvious robots, it could be humanoid replicas and then one of them gets struck by lightning and rambles around the city and get picked up by a hooker with a heart of gold. Should be a new actor in the Guttenberg part, but Steve Guttenberg should be the govt. wonk in charge of the project.
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"...Nun soup?"
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Would you rather watch this or Transformers 2?
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Disassemble!
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if they tell the story of the british kid who hacked into the pentagon. or make the movie with a post 9/11 big brother US story about how the bush administration cracks down on anyone who breaks the law and shredded their international bi-lateral aggreements they had with other countries and despite the fact that he is a brit to the us govt he has broken US law.
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seriously?
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I guess we'll never really see the end of shit fuck remakes of mediocre 80's crap. Can't believe this shit gets greenlit. Looks like the crack babies are growing up and getting jobs in Hollywood
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Oh, I am supporting a TREMENDOUS WOODY here!
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I'm working on the Avi Arad produced robot film "Robosapien" in New Orleans. This flick has alot of short circuit similarities. Its based off the popular toy line...
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The kids'll love it!!
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Like seeing an old friend again. Don't Michael Bay-ify him.
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A standalone sequel that newbies can easily understand and get into, but that is still technically a sorta-sequel. Like Superman Returns.
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