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The Great Remake Orgy Continues!! Here Comes CAPRICORN ONE!!
Merrick here...
John Moore (BEHIND ENEMY LINES, THE OMEN remake, the FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX remake) will direct a retooling of Peter Hyam's 1978 action thriller CAPRICORN ONE for New Regency. The project is described as...
an updated, reimagining of the story that revolves around a group of astronauts of an aborted mission to Mars.
...according to THIS ARTICLE in Variety.
Hyam's original film starred Elliot Gould, James Brolin, and a pre-trial O.J. Simpson as astronauts who are pulled from their space vehicle shortly before launch & forced to cooperate in a conspiratorial, simulated landing on the Red Planet. All hell breaks loose when our heroic trio opts out.
The original CAPRICORN ONE featured a score by Jerry Goldsmith; its theme (YouTubed below) would portend his famous theme for TOTAL RECALL 12 year later. Interestingly, RECALL's theme music is often ridiculed as being derivative of Basil Poledouris' 1982 theme for CONAN THE BARBARIAN, which it also evokes to a heavy extent.
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Who sucks!
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A remake of the remake is already in the works. Ratner to direct.
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This is getting beyond a joke... some kind of mass hysteria out there. Lazy bastards.
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Capricorn One rocks- As Is. Love the funeral scene with the folded flag ceremony...and then the car pulls up.
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I can totally see today's U.S. government staging a manned mars landing. Anything to take our attention off the flagging economy, the useless war in Iraq, and the fact that the quality of life in general isn't so wonderful. I'm surprised the Bush administration hasn't done it already in an effort to manufacture something positive for his legacy. Plus, NASA has a couple exploded shuttles and a bunch of dead astronauts to save face for, and current missions aren't generating much excitement (yeah, I know about Phoenix, yawn) we're not as far along as I'm sure most people thought we'd be by now
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...Stay tuned for the appearances of BendersShinyAss and GingerTwit in the talkbacks, tinfoil hats perched precariously on their pointy heads.
Maybe we can get Buzz Aldrin to come in here and punch them out?
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Is this a staged talkback? *looks around nervously*
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Remakes have officially jumped the shark....in a atomic fridge.
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They'll have the conspiracy be the work of one bad apple in Nasa, or some corrupt senator. That's what they always do.
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they made the conspiracy pretty much the work of one man in that.
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Capricorn one is cinematic perfection. Not only is there no need for a remake but the plot makes absolutely no sense in the current climate. AAARRGGGGHHH!!!! Just leave it the fuck alone. For the love of god won't somebody please think of the children!
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can't remake this film who could POSSIBLY act as well as OJ did?
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Just get get OJ in again and call it Capricorn One: If I Did Do It
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They could go Serious with Denzel Washington,Russell Crowe and Val Kilmer.
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Or maybe they could cast him as the evil villain who creates this elaborate deception and cover up. Then again that would be foolish; he doesn't have the acting ability to pull it off such a role. Besides it would take time away from his work looking for the real killers.
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i agree with Abominable above. I think a remake of this could work. Of course a remake of Manchurican Candidate could have worked and that didn't make it so. Still while most remakes suck a few work (The Thing, Hills Have Eyes) even if in a very different way from the original (and not always as good). For instance i really enjoyed the remake of Assault On Precinct 13. It was not even close to being as great as the original - a film i love and own and still shocks me at the moment the little girl gets more than she bargained for at the ice-cream truck - i mean, i'd never watch the remake again, but for the 90 minutes or so it played it entertained me. I find it funny so many people jump all over these things just going Hollywood sucks, stop remaking stuff, and then get excited for QT's Inglorious Bastards - a remake. Noone finds it strange that plays are reinterpreted again and again by different people, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, so why shouldn't that be the case for films?
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Gee....how original.Is Hollywood dead?
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He's eventually going to end up killing somebody anyway so why not make it a total remake.
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On life Support.
Source Material and Relative Success rates.
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...because of you ADD kids addicted to shaky cam, poorly-edited digital crap entertainment with actors hired for their abs and not for any talent. "The original had goofy 70s haircuts and bellbottoms, so of course I can't follow the storyline!"
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I can get behind this remake. The OG had a good concept but devolved into a silly chase movie soon after the set up. Seriously, ending with a freeze frame of Gould and Brolin running through a grave yard. Give me a fucking break.
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What about that guy... Ron Goldman, is that his name?
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You mean Harry's double? Man I have a best of Arnold themes cd, and it rocks. Total Recall and Conan being the best.
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...oh, wait. oj killed him because he was sleeping with his tennis instructor at the players club. forgot! sorry! embarrassing!
um. the original wasn't too bad -- great hangdog elliot gould performance, better, frankly, than his celebrated anti-macho marlowe in altman's long goodbye. peter hyams had a shot for a minute at being an interesting genre director, at least through outland. that shot is done, son. i anticipate this sucking, an anticipation which has yet to fail me. -
STOP! Stop it with the remakes! EEEEEEEEccckkkkkkAAAAAAAAAgggggggAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrgggggg!!!!!! The pain! The pain! STTTTTOOOOOOOOOOPPP!!!!!!
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Or maybe more of a re-imagining?Saw Capricorn One in the theater (yes, I'm that old) and loved it. A remake might work. But I wonder if they cast 3 big names for the astronauts would the producers pussy-out in killing them off? Get David Fincher to direct this and I'm in.I wonder if they will feel the need to change the way the astronauts "die". Having them "killed" in re-entry might put off your audience ("too soon"). Same with if the rocket explodes on take-off. Since the rest is faked how will the astronauts "die"?
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DELIBERATELY homaged the Conan theme. Get your facts straight motherfuckers.
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and always wondered if they had made a sequel, would it have been called: 'Capricorn One Two'?
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But I think they will be killed when the capsule smashes into a secret Iranian sattelite armed with nukes.
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runs out of minor classics, cult classics, and genre classics to remake they are going to turn to the "true" greats? Keep an eye out for "Citizen Kane" (2014).
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I always remember Goldsmith's music from Capricorn One (and various others including Outland and Coma and some I sadly haven't worked out yet) when they were re-used in Charles Chilton's 80's sci-fi radio show Space Force. I still like listening to that show today...
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Jun 05, 2008 11:59:51 AM CDT
Breaking news: Ratner to direct remake of remake of Capricorn On
by jack-torrance
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Hey Merrick! Facts, my man. FACTS. Gould was playing a reporter investigating the "launch". James Brolin, JUICE, and Sam Waterston were the astronauts! It's hokey..but I love it.
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Jun 05, 2008 12:11:25 PM CDT
Original is dated and suffers from low budget - but good story
by the_rising
This is ripe for a remake. Done right it could be terrific, but will the studio go for a dumb version, all action, with no thought? Hope not. This story has insane potential for greatness.
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Capricorn One on Blu Ray and I can totally ignore any so-called remake! That is all.
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Jun 05, 2008 12:27:02 PM CDT
Here is my list of films that will never get remade. The origin
by ingeld
Gone with the Wind, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Wizard of Oz (as a musical), Citizen Kane. What do you think? What would you add to the list?
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when it comes to remakes. *nothing* Hollywood has no shame.
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I agree with The Godfather, but I am not so sure about 2001.
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Yes, when the bottom line in money, nothing is off limits. But the films that I am listing I believe are so iconic that Hollywood would not remake them because people would not pay to see a remake. The original is so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we would automatically react against a remake. Perhaps you disagree with this idea though. Do you think there are such iconic films that are for all intents and purposes remake proof?
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I am not sure the Exorcist would be in there too. Perhaps. (I know this is totally subjective.) Anything else?
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Jun 05, 2008 1:07:50 PM CDT
And here comes renewed interest in the moon landing being faked.
by yeti
Just like the discovery of the New World was too (we're all in Europe on the flat earth)
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You can watch "Capricorn One" in its entirety on Google Video. I am about half-way through the film. Not too bad. Does it need a remake? Not really.
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I love the original and have owned the DVD for years, watched it multiple times. That said, there is plenty to be fixed with it and a remake, if done well, could improve on it.The 70's sensibility, while cool, definitely is cornball in some places. This is not Elliot Gould's finest work by a long shot. He seemed to be in "I'm the top film star of the day, baby" mode. Someone who could actually play a gritty, down-and-out reporter would be good here. Think Robert Downey Jr (ala Zodiac, although you probably wont get him now after Ironman's box office)All the 'effects' were practical and looked great, and I'm sure in the new version we'll have all-CG flyovers of the shuttle etc, that will be kind of cool but still CG-y fake. That said, they use the classic 70's "speed up the film" effect atrociously in the Elliot-Gould's-brake-lines-have-been-cut / car-out-of-control action scene. It's laughable now.The helicopters pursuing the pilots at the end, turning to "talk" to each other is goofy. They could more realistically be using spy satellites combined with more heli's out there searching for them, and the astronauts using their wits to avoid heli and satellite advanced detection technique. That could be cool.Finally, getting rid of some of the unwelcome 70's glacial pacing techniques could be good. I'm no fan of quick-MTV-style cuts, but do we need 3 minutes of Elliot Gould moping around his apartment? And like a previous poster mentioned, the ending freeze frame of the guys running through the graveyard at the end is just hokey.All in all, a great movie, but not an untouchable classic that should never be remade. If they do a good job, it could be a helluva good remake.
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Did this need to be remade?
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Shameful.
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The fact there are people in this talkback saying "hmm..yeah this could be good" is the reason they keep doing them.
It's not so much Hollywood's fault, than it is the jags that say "yeah! sounds good!" Because there are enough people out there to fork over the dollars to make the remake worth it, when instead they should be going to the video store and renting the damn original.
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Or maybe Marshann Lynch. He seems like more of a criminal type than Thermal.
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the original sucked balls...and just stoked the flames of the conspiracy nuts who said we never landed on the moon
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It's a MOVIE! That's like saying people who make all those bigfoot movies stoke the flames of people who think exists!
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When the writers strike was over didn't that mean that the writers, uh, went BACK to work?? Did they agree to a "no original ideas" clause?
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...as much as I love the original, but I'd love to see a remake of Flight of the Navigator. The CGI would be epic.
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It's actually a movie ripe for a good remake. Just not the total piece of shit Moore will likely deliver. Oh and did anyone mention he's a total prick on the set to actors/crew? Maybe not as mean as David O'Russel but still definitely earns the title "fat fuck..."
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of the very, very, pre-Jack McCoy Sam Waterson. I guess a Law and Order seque works here; "In the Hollywood-complete-lack-of-justice-system, the people are represented by two seperate and equally unimportant groups: the Studio execs who don't give a shit about originality, and the directors and film-makers who simply aren't capable of it anymore .. these are their stories". McCoy and whichever hot female sidekick ADA he has this season would be able to phone in their closing statements and get a slam-dunk conviction. Now THAT would be worth the money to go see.
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It has only been in the theatres for a short time. Surely Hollywood has that plan going in effect soon.
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Have it be the first historic all women crew headed to Mars. Something goes wrong. All are assummed dead. Not so. They are at some secret spa enjoying themselves. They find out the truth. Have to escape by any means.
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The third astronaut was Sam Waterston (spelling?) of recent Law and Order fame, not Elliot Gould. Gould played the reporter who had the scoop on the cover-up and was trying to blow it wide open without being killed for the knowledge he held.
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Thank God! How about adding 2001: Space Odyssey to the list?
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Already remade as The Whiz
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Sorry. Just saw Josh Brolin's dad in that one and couldn't resist. Jesus, if Hollywood was a horse the decent thing to do would be just take it somewhere quiet and blow its diseased brains out. I know C.O. was no masterpiece but even the most wafer-thin, exploitative nonsense from that era holds up ten times better than the bulk of what's being churned out today.
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I'm glad to hear that. The part at the end where Julie Andrews mows down all those nazi soldiers with a Thompson sub-machinegun and break into song amidst the carnage without missing a beat is priceless!
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While yes, I do see the Wiz as a remake of the 1939 film, it seems so different that it hardly seemed like a mainstream remake--more like a blaxploitation film.
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I doubt that the dialogue will be as punchy as it was in the original.
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"Deception Point" by Dan Brown. NASA claims to have discovered a meteorite that proves extraterrestrial life. A great sci-fi thriller full of government misdeeds. You conspiracy theorists (we are watching you) will love it.
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"And it was 24 hours!" Great stuff. Plus Hal Holbrook delivers a speech at the beginning that must have been about 20 pages of non-stop dialogue. Fantastic.
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Great movie that nobody saw. Hollywood learned it's lesson on that one. Bring on the Gremlins remake.
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you know you want it
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Farrah Fawcett almost showed em. That was awesome...
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One of the best Goldsmith opening titles EVER.
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I have always loved this movie! I have the poster framed on my office wall. Great, no-brains action movie. Shocked that anyone even remembers it, much less wants to remake it. I hope the remake is not completely cast with 25 years old and younger-types. Bet you O.J. is begging the producers to let him make a cameo in the remake! He's gotta be hurtin' for cash. He might even let them pay him with cocaine instead of cash!
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Can I have apart in this please. I'll bring my own little space suit.
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I meant to say 'a part' not 'apart' but the keyboard is so big it's hard for my tiny hands to type.
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Go on suck it. I am a GOD to you mere mortals. Lick my little ass
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He and his wife are too busy rifling through God's filing cabinets to comment...
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Based on the way they are going, they will remaking films that came out this year in the next 15 years. Pilfer from the 70s, then what next? Remake The Untouchables? What about Bonnie & Clyde that was 1968- the kids ain't seen it and Warren/Faye have retired. I can almost hear their discussions in my head...sigh...
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back when the war was starting to go bad. He wasn't serious though - his advisors told him to say it just to paint a nice picture for the masses. Lesson: don't ever believe the hype and open your eyes to the manipulation. Peace.
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It was The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Not a bad movie, less vulgar and gory than Friedkin's.
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"...& forced to cooperate in a conspiratorial, simulated landing on the Red Planet."
Capricorn One was about going (or not going, rather) to the MOON - NOT "THE RED PLANET." -
No, no, no.
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Hollywood, and all its sycophants should pull an M. Night 'happening' Shyamalan and just die for no reason.
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..That wasn't so great.A remake of Saturn 3 might be good...it was a heavily flawed , but interesting film {with some truly shit model work.Not sure about Capricorn 1 though...would anyone actually bother going to see it.It sounds like a recipe for flop.
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Didn't care for the original. Doubt I'd enjoy the remake.And Dear Lord please no remake of SATURN 3! (Actually, that Val Kilmer shitfest movie about Mars and robodog was pretty close to a SATURN 3 remake.)
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