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Brian Clark at movieline.com has an interesting article titled "5 Remakes of Bad Stephen King Adaptations That Should Get Fast Tracked ."
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Each entry is given a short synopsis and reasons why it deserves a remake. Here's the big 5:
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1. Children of the Corn. You've got to be kidding, Mr. Clark! Let it die. It might not be able to rest in peace, but at lest let it squirm in its nasty grave on the back aisle of the video store and the $5 barrel at Walmart.
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2. The Night Flier.
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3. Needful Things
Clark writes: "Max Von Sydow plays the devil , who opens up shop in (of course) a small town in Maine. With this casting and setup, I still don’t understand why this movie is so tame and dull, but it is! I’d accept either a straight-up comedy remake or a horrifying one, but the middle-ground that the original version treads is unacceptable."
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I too would love to see a Needful Things remake. But, as always, one faithful to the book. Maybe a mini-series.
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4. Pet Sematary. (Just in case the first one didn't do it for you.)
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5. It
Clark's logic: "The original TV miniseries inspired weeks or even months of nightmares in small children thanks to Tim Curry’s terrifying portrayal of Pennywise, the shape-shifting, child-eating clown. Then the ending (spoiler alert) where he just turns out to be a stupid, giant spider out of a 50’s B-movie quickly ensured that all children could sleep soundly again. To actually make a faithful adaptation of the novel, this would probably work better as an HBO miniseries. Which would be great! But even if the studio could deliver something as slick as the first hour and a half of the original that doesn’t peter out at the end, It could become a potential horror classic. "
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You know, I have to agree. All went well, until the end -- when the movie just petered out. But things I hear about the movie do not give me hope. Moving the time line up to the 80's -- not good! Forcing the whole story into a 2 hour feature movie, again, not good.
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If I may ask, why keep remaking old movies that went dud in the night when there are some great books that haven't been touched? Bag of Bones, most things Bachman, Cell, From a Buick 8, Duma Key, Lisey's Story, Talisman, Under The Dome, Eyes of the Dragon, The Sun Dog, Insomnia.
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I too think IT as an HBO miniseries would be great, something I would really look forward to seeing. I think Under the Dome would make a great miniseries as well. So many different little stories they could focus on within each segment while telling the larger story as well.
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