The horror! The horror!

[stephen_dedman]

I've just read this story about a possible new recording material, and remembered this one about an intelligent washing machine... and I can't help thinking someone should remake Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape while it's still sf.

Comments

[angriest]

I think this is the first time I have ever seen you recommend a remake. Something has gone horribly wrong in the world...

[stephen_dedman]

The Stone Tape is one of those cases where the script was better than the production values, and I think it could easily be redone with another cast, much better effects, and almost no rewriting.

I'm not against remakes when the decision is to go back to the source material and do a better job of bringing it to the screen with minimal reference to any previous film version - my favourites being Carpenter's The Thing, Huston's The Maltese Falcon (I haven't gotten around to watching Satan Met a Lady yet, but Bogart was a much better Sam Spade than Ricardo Cortez), Mann's Heat and Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring. What irks me about many remakes is that they seem to have no other rationale than "this was a classic, so adding colour and big name stars and special effects can only improve it, right?"

[slashfairy]

man. that washer- and the flatshare fridge- whoa.

but what about when it breaks? *so fancy*

The Stone Tape could be really good, done correctly (not nec. all CGI etc.). but yeah, a remake just to remake something. . . not so much.