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#1  Postby Horwood Beer-Master » Oct 08, 2014 11:57 pm

For fucking fuck's sake! We don't fucking need a fucking remake of every fucking thing!!!!!!! :lay: :lay: :lay: :lay: :lay:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29536370
Bill Nighy, Sir Michael Gambon, Toby Jones and Sir Tom Courtenay are among the stars who will appear in a big-screen remake of classic sitcom Dad's Army.

Jones will star as Captain Mainwaring, Nighy will appear as Sergeant Wilson and Courtenay will play Corporal Jones.

Gambon will fill the role of Private Godfrey and there will also be roles for Catherine Zeta Jones, Sarah Lancashire and Mark Gatiss...


Somebody stop this bloody madness!!! Whoever commissioned this ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves!
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#2  Postby I'm With Stupid » Oct 09, 2014 1:40 am

Don't worry, it's being made by the same people who made Johnny English and Mr. Bean's Holiday, so it's in safe hands. :shifty:
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#3  Postby Varangian » Oct 09, 2014 7:04 am

I'm With Stupid wrote:Don't worry, it's being made by the same people who made Johnny English and Mr. Bean's Holiday, so it's in safe hands. :shifty:

You mean they are so competent, the Germans will be marching up Whitehall in episode 2?
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#4  Postby Thomas Eshuis » Oct 09, 2014 7:08 am

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:For fucking fuck's sake! We don't fucking need a fucking remake of every fucking thing!!!!!!! :lay: :lay: :lay: :lay: :lay:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29536370
Bill Nighy, Sir Michael Gambon, Toby Jones and Sir Tom Courtenay are among the stars who will appear in a big-screen remake of classic sitcom Dad's Army.

Jones will star as Captain Mainwaring, Nighy will appear as Sergeant Wilson and Courtenay will play Corporal Jones.

Gambon will fill the role of Private Godfrey and there will also be roles for Catherine Zeta Jones, Sarah Lancashire and Mark Gatiss...


Somebody stop this bloody madness!!! Whoever commissioned this ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves!

Be happy it isn't being turned in a musical. Yet.
I swear everything nostalgic or remotely popular is being turned into a musical over here. :rage:
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#5  Postby UncertainSloth » Oct 09, 2014 7:15 am

Thomas Eshuis wrote:

Somebody stop this bloody madness!!! Whoever commissioned this ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves!

Be happy it isn't being turned in a musical. Yet.
I swear everything nostalgic or remotely popular is being turned into a musical over here. :rage:[/quote]

already been one - in the 70s - 'twas a revue style show...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Army_(stage_show)
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#6  Postby Thomas Eshuis » Oct 09, 2014 7:16 am

UncertainSloth wrote:
Thomas Eshuis wrote:

Somebody stop this bloody madness!!! Whoever commissioned this ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves!

Be happy it isn't being turned in a musical. Yet.
I swear everything nostalgic or remotely popular is being turned into a musical over here. :rage:


already been one - in the 70s - 'twas a revue style show...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Army_(stage_show)[/quote]
Wouldn't stop the musical industry over here.
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#7  Postby Mike_L » Oct 09, 2014 7:21 am

They're even doing a remake of Ben Hur. Given that the 1959 movie with Charlton Heston was a remake of a black-&-white 1925 version, which was a remake of a one-reel silent 1907 version, this new one will be a remake of a remake of a remake.
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#8  Postby quisquose » Oct 09, 2014 7:35 am

A few years ago it always amused me to read fans of John Carpenter's The Thing complain about fucking remakes after the new one was announced.
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#9  Postby Emmeline » Oct 09, 2014 7:54 am

I don't have a problem with it - in fact I quite like to see new interpretations of existing programmes/films.

It happens all the time in the theatre so why not on film?
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#10  Postby Spinozasgalt » Oct 09, 2014 8:05 am

quisquose wrote:A few years ago it always amused me to read fans of John Carpenter's The Thing complain about fucking remakes after the new one was announced.


It ended up being a prequel, anyway. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton made it pretty easy to watch. :)
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#11  Postby hackenslash » Oct 09, 2014 8:19 am

Well, if they can at least make it funny, it will be a vast improvement on the original Dad's Army, which was about as shit as TV's ever been, barring the modern strain of reality TV.
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#12  Postby Animavore » Oct 09, 2014 1:40 pm

Looks like Uncle Buck is coming to our TV screens soon.
http://deadline.com/2014/10/uncle-buck- ... er-847580/
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