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Rumored ones, too.

I only added to the list what was either on IMDb, or had some confirmed basis that I knew off.  Many of these projects could be bogus (and man, do I hope), and some of the rumored could be confirmed.  Either way, here is the fruit of my research:

*Hollywood remake of foreign film, most of which were made recently

I should also point out that there are a few errors in the page.  I've been fixing them as I go.

Upcoming Remakes:

13 Tzameti* (will be called “13”)
Adventures in Baby Sitting (will be called “Further Adventures in Baby Sitting”)
All of Me
Angel Heart
Anguish
Art of the Devil*
At the End of the Spectra*
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Barbarella
Battle Royale*
Be With You*
Better Tomorrow, A
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Big Chill, The
Birds, The
Brood, The
Captain Blood
Child’s Play
Children of the Corn (mini-series)
CHUD
Clash of the Titans
Clue
Communion (remake of similarly titled film that was also called “Alice, Sweet Alice”)
Crazies, The
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Dead Daughters*
Death Wish
Don’t Look Now
Dirty Dozen, The
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Don’t Look in the Basement
Don’t Look Up
Drop Dead Fred
Dune
Echo, The*
Enter the Phoenix*
Entity, The (will be Japanese made; oh, turn about is fair play!)
Escape from New York
Everybody’s Fine
Evil Dead
Experiment, The* (will be called “The Stanford Prison Experiment”)
Faces of Death (how you remake a documentary is beyond me)
Flash Gordon
Footloose
Gate, The
Halloween 2 (will be called “H2”)
Hell Night
Hellraiser
Highlander
Host, The*
House on Sorority Row (will be called “Sorority Row”)
I Spit on Your Grave
I Walked With a Zombie
Infection*
Intimate Strangers*
Island of Lost Souls
Isle of the Dead
It
Jar City
Jesus Christ Superstar
Ju-on 2 (will be called “The Grudge 3”; the last Grudge film was not a remake, but a new film in itself)*
Judge Dredd (kind of a remake, kind of a reboot, definitely adapted)
Let the Right One In*
Little Shop of Horrors
Macabre
Man Who Fell to Earth, The
Maybe… Maybe Not*
Metropolis
Missing in Action
Monster Squad
Neverending Story, The
Night of the Demons
Night of the Living Dorks
Nightmare on Elm Street, A
Oldboy
Pet Sematary
Piranha (will be called “Piranha 3-D”)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (will be called “Plan 9”)
Porky’s
Poltergeist
Race With the Devil
Re-Animator
Red Dawn
Red Sonja
Ringu 0: Birthday (will be called “The Ring 3”)*
Robocop
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Room 205*
Scanners
Sharky’s Machine
Short Circuit
Sicilian Clan, The
Spider Baby
Stepfather, The
Strangers on a Train
Sunset Boulevard
Suspiria*
Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
They Live
Thing, The (Is it a prequel?  Is a remake?  Is it a “reimagining?”  The creators keep changing the story on this one)
Tingler, The
Total Recall
Trespasser, The* (remake of “O Invasor”)
Troll
Valley Girl
Versus*
When Worlds Collide
Who Can Kill a Child? (will be called “In the Playground”- will be a “reimagining”)
Who is Killing the Great Chefs?*
Witches, The (the one based on the children’s book)
Wolfman, The

Upcoming Sequels (both adapted from books and from film)

300 prequel
Anchorman 2
Angels and Demons (sequel of “The Da Vinci Code”)
Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard (sequel of “Arthur and the Invisibles”)
Aurthur and the Invisibles 3
Automaton Transfusion: Contingency
Beverly Hills Cop 4
BloodRayne 3: Warhammer
Bond 23
Boondock Saints 2
Bourne sequel
Brazilian Job, The (sequel of “The Italian Job”)
Bubba Nosferatu (sequel of “Bubba Ho-Tep”)
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever
Cannibals (sequel of “Cannibal Holocaust”)
Cars 2
Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
Chronicles of Riddick sequel
Creepshow (not a remake as originally believed, but a whole new movie)
Dark Knight sequel
Departed, The sequel
Descent 2, The
Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
Evil Dead 4 (Yes, Raimi and Campbell are making it; Raimi has actually begun writing the script)
Flesh for the Beast 2
Final Destination: Death Trip 3-D
Get Smart 2
Ghost Rider 2
Ghostbusters 3
Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver
Hairspray 2
Harold and Kumar 3
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2
Hellboy 3
Hoodwinked 2: Hood vs. Evil
Hostel 3
House of Re-Animator
I Am Legend prequel
I, Robot 2
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Inside Man sequel
Jeepers Creepers 3
Ju-on: The Grudge 3 (Japanese made; different from American made “The Grudge 3”)
Jumper 2
Kung Fu Hustle 2
Kung Fu Panda 2
Lady Blood (sequel of “Baby Blood”)
Lethal Weapon 5
Lost Boys 3
Little Fockers (sequel of “Meet the Fockers”)
Mad Max 4
Mean Girls 2
Men in Black 3
Money Never Sleeps (sequel of “Wall Street”)
Naked Gun: What 4? The Rhythm of Evil
National Treasure 3
New Moon (sequel of “Twilight”)
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
…Of the Dead (sequel of “Diary of the Dead”- part of Romero’s “Dead” series)
Ong-Bak 2
Phantom Legacy, The (sequel of “The Phantom”; rumored to be a remake instead)
Pirates of the Caribbean 4
Point Break Indo
Power of the Dark Crystal, The (sequel of “Dark Crystal”)
Rambo 5
[Rec] 2
Resident Evil 4
Road Trip 2: Beer Pong
S. Darko (sequel of “Donnie Darko”)
Saw 6
Scary Movie 5
School of Rock 2: America Rocks
Scream 4
Sex and the City 2
Shrek Goes Fourth
Silent Hill 2
Sin City 2
Sin City 3
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Sleepaway Camp 6
Spider-Man 4
Spider-Man 5
Step Up 3-D
Strangers 2, The
Stranglehold (sequel of “Hard Boiled”- Could also be adaptation of the Stranglehold game, which itself was a sequel of “Hard Boiled”)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel (yeah, another one)
Terminator: Salvation
Terminator 5
Terror Toons 3
Thomas Crown Affair 2
Tomb Raider 3
Toy Story 3
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Transformers 3
TRON 2.0
Twilight Watch (sequel of “Day Watch”)
Untouchables: Capone Rising, The
Wanted 2
Wanted 3
Wild Hogs 2
Wrong Turn 3
X-Men Origins: Magneto
xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Upcoming Adaptations from comic/anime/novels/video games/TV series:

Akira
Alice in Wonderland
Animal Crossing (Japanese made; will be animated)
Annabel Lee (Edgar Allen Poe poem)
Ant Man
Army of Two
Avengers (based on the Marvel comic, not the British TV show)
Battle Angel (based on the manga “Battle Angel Alita”)
BioShock
Black House (Stephen King book)
Blood: The Last Vampire
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Buck Rogers
Captain America
Castlevania
Cell (Stephen King book)
CHiPs
City of Heroes
Clock Tower
Cowboy Bebop
Dark Hollow (Brian Keene book)
Dark Tower (unknown if it will be a theatrical movie, a TV series, or a mini-series; or even what section of the story it will be about)
Deadpool
Death Note
Devil May Cry
Doctor Strange
Dread (Clive Barker short story)
Driver (based on the video game)
Duke Nukem
Earthworm Jim
Elfquest
Emily the Strange
EverQuest
Gears of War
Ghost in the Shell
GI Joe
God of War
Goon, The (will be CGI)
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Halo
Hobbit, The
Jason and the Argonauts: Kingdom of Hades
Johnny Appleseed
Joust (yes, a movie based on an arcade game that had no plot…)
Kane and Lynch (great, a movie based on a game that flopped…)
Kung Fu
Land of the Lost
Last Airbender, The (live action version of Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Last Blood
Legend of Spryo (based on the “Spryo the Dragon” games)
Lone Ranger, The
Lost Planet
Luke Cage
Jonah Hex
Justice League: Mortal
Mask of the Black Death, The
Masters of the Universe (not a remake of the last one, but an all new reboot)
Metal Gear Solid
Mortal Kombat sequel/remake/reboot
Nick Fury
Ninja Scroll
On the Road (Jack Kerouac book)
Onimusha
Off Season (Jack Ketcham book)
Pigs Blood Blues (Clive Barker short story)
Preacher
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (a parody of a satire?)
Prince of Persia
Rainbow Six
Reboot
Red Fish Blue Fish
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Shadow of the Colossus
Sherlock Holmes
Sims, The (yes, I repeat: They are making a movie of “The Sims,” a game where you simulate every day life)
Silver Surfer
Splinter Cell
Spy Hunter
Store, The (Bentley Little book)
Stretch Armstrong
Sub-Mariner
Suffering, The
Teen Titans
Tekken
Thief of Always, The (Clive Barker book)
Thor
Throttle
Thundercats
Torrente
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Venom
Voltron
Wicked (Gregory McGuire book- will be a film based on the musical)
Witchblade
Wonder Woman
World of Warcraft

Rumor Mill:

Alien vs. Predator 3
Area 51 movie
Beetle Juice sequel (Keaton said he’d do it if Burton directed; they were going to make one originally called “Beetle Juice in Love,” but the writer passed away while penning the script)
Big Momma’s House 3
Big Money Rustlas (sequel of “Big Money Hustlas,”)
Black Panther movie
Blade Runner sequel
Boa vs. Python sequel
Boyz n the Hood remake
Break-Up, The sequel
Bull Durham sequel
Burning, The remake
Candyman vs. film
Candyman sequel/remake
Changeling, The remake (not the recent film, but an update of the 1980 ghost movie with George C. Scott)
Cloverfield sequel/spin-off
Conan 3 (rumored to be called “King Conan”)
Darkness movie
Dragon Ball: Evolution sequel
Dragon’s Lair movie
Drizzt movie
Elder Scrolls movie
Eternal Darkness movie
Fallout movie
Fatalis movie
Fear Effect movie (Uwe Boll was supposed to direct, but has supposedly backed away from the project)
Freddy vs. Jason sequel (they had a script treatment for Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash up, but Sam Raimi politely rejected the movie, saying he had too much on his plate)
Godzilla 29 (rumored to be in production as early as 2013, but Toho says not likely)
Godzilla vs. Gamera (Kadowkawa has been trying, Toho has been rejecting the idea, but they may like it after a while)
Green Arrow movie
Half-Life movie
Happy Birthday to Me remake
Heathers sequel
Humongous remake (god knows why…)
Hunter: The Reckoning movie
Indiana Jones 5
Jurassic Park 4
Kill Bill animated prequel
Kill Bill sequel/spin-off
Kung Pow 2
Legend of Zelda movie
Lupin the 3rd live action movie
Metroid movie
Mrs. Doubtfire sequel/remake
Neon Genesis Evangelion live action movie
Nightmare Detective American remake
Offspring (sequel to “Off Season,” assuming the movie does well)
Pac-Man movie (I’ve heard somewhere this was a joke)
People Under the Stairs sequel/remake
Potfest (rumored sequel to “Beerfest”; was originally a joke at the end of the film, but word has it that after receiving letters from people who don’t know what sarcasm is asking when Potfest was coming out, they decided to do it anyway; rumored to be animated)
Rawhead Rex remake (rumored to be a Sci-Fi Channel Pictures original)
Rosemary’s Baby remake
Running Man, The remake
Silent Night, Deadly Night remake (was supposed to be released last year, but seems to have fallen off the charts)
Simpsons Movie sequel
Shrek 5
Star Wars Episodes 7-9
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic movie trilogy
Three Mothers prequel
Under Siege 3
Venus Wars live action remake
Versus 1.5
Versus 2
Wedding Planner sequel
X-Men sequel/reboot
X-Men Origins: Gambit
X-Men Origins: Mystique
X-Men Origins: Storm


Scrapped Projects:

Alice (based on game “American McGee’s Alice”; had many incarnations and possible directors including George Romero, and seems to have faded into obscurity)
Blair Witch 3
Blob, The remake (yeah, another one, but by Dark Castle this time)
Daimajin remake
Dog Soldiers: Fresh Meat (Dog Soldiers sequel)
Fatal Frame movie
Godzilla sequels- Japanese (very many that have been proposed and scrapped over the decades, among them Batman vs. Godzilla, Godzilla vs. the Devil, and a remake of King Kong vs. Godzilla)
Godzilla 2 (American sequel)
Godzilla 3 (see above)
Pretty Woman remake (pretty well debunked, but I’m sure the tabloid attention may generate executive interest in a possible project)
Revenge of the Nerds remake

Is this reason to panic?  Celebrate?  You decide. 

DON"T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT?!? Why? That movie is damn near perfect! BLASPHOMY!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCuKGD2WHgM

I must have seen this movie 20 times.  :cheers:

Yikes! My head is swimming!

I thought the Evil Dead remake was changed to Evil Dead 4?  You got them both up there! What happened!?

I'm kind of excited about the Joust movie.  I'd hit dat.

The Evil Dead remake is still listed on IMDb, so it could be completely defunct.  I still have it on there just in case.

Joe, that is depressing.  If I were to coment on all the bad ideas there, I'd be sitting here typing until midnight.

Did you do all this research on your own?

For the most part.  I remembered a lot of these from conversations I've had with friends, and also from searching things on Google (typing in things like "upcoming comic movies," etc.), and double-checking on IMDb.  I think what spurred this was going to the movies last week, and seeing that every trailer in the theater was a sequel.  I mean every trailer.  Before that, every trailer was a remake or adaptation. 

I would also like to note that Yahoo! reports the Deadpool movie to be confirmed, so I can move that over.

Long f'in list!

 :buggedout:

Good job though.  Now let's see. . .

Am I the only one who looked at "Captain Blood" and wondered if they were going to remake the non-Errol Flynn sequels, too?

It could be worse. This could be a adaptation of the old commodore/amiga game.

The Cowboy Bebop and Elfquest movies are news to me.

So long as Hollywood doesn't attempt a live action Reboot that could be fun.

Jason and the Argonauts: Kingdom of Hades?

Let's hope that's better than the sciffy original movie ODYSSEUS - VOYAGE TO THE UNDERWORLD (http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-qzcELew6frWBZspks_7SsnUuv9VNTUA-?cq=1&p=342).  Also noteworthy is the fact there's two other entries in the IMDB listed simply as Odysseus: Odysseus (2010) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424825/) and Odysseus (2012) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1427271/).  Alas those links are fairly worthless as they're just a placeholder advert for joining IMDBPro at the moment.

*whistle*

That's a LOT of rumored Star Wars movies!

EDIT: And NONE of them have IMDB entries.  Yet something called Lego Star Wars does.  Hmm.

I can't believe The Sims rated a possible feature film yet Dungeon Keeper apparently has not.

The Star Wars films are 100% rumor, and I've heard that Lucas Arts denies 7-9, but you know they have to be thinking it what with Star Wars essentially becoming the Traci Lords of the film industry these days.

I agree with you, brother!

Knowing how things go, it'll have Will Ferrell and be a comedy or be based around some tween queen.

However, "Off Season", if they don't tone it down, might be fun, especially if they don't fill it with a bunch of fashion model types.

The Barbarella movie has apparently been scrapped.

Read all about it, and more, in Robert Rodriguez to direct Vaporware: The Movie (http://cosmic-cinema.blogspot.com/2009/05/robert-rodriguez-to-direct-vaporware.html). Don't forget to click on the highlighted links for more info.

 :cheers:

The problem with big-budget remakes of low budget expliotation classics (Plan 9,Don't Look in the Basement)-with all there CGI and high tech FX....what makes these films so endearing IS there low budgets...and how the filmakers injected so much  imagination into it....enthusiasm...and true LOVE of what they were doing-THATS why Ed Woods films are remebered today....and countless other Z films fell into oblivion. It's heart that counts. You can't buy that.

Poem sound familiar?  :smile:
Seriously though, this makes me feel like killing myself.  :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

for real

CGI should be banned. it never quite works, especially in the 'gore' department

I had heard at one point of a sequel to Beetlejuice called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.  Kevin Smith told a story about being approached by Warner Bros. about possibly doing one of three movies with them: Superman Reborn (which became Returns a few years ago), Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, and a movie based off of an episode of The Outer Limits. 

And must we have a sequel to Drop Dead Fred?  I loved the original as a kid, but damn. 

Unfortunately, Happy, it's not a Drop Dead Fred sequel, but a remake.

Hmm. 

I'm at this moment trying to decide if that's WORSE than a sequel or not.  Seeing as it's twenty years later, a remake is the best way to go, I suppose.

But RUSSELL BRAND?  That dude is an annoying little prick.

Joe, I used your list as the starting point for a blog post: http://366weirdmovies.com/weird-horizon-for-the-week-of-5809-with-ill-advised-hollywood-remake-supplement/.  I would be happy to edit the post to credit you for having done the original research if you like.

I would have cut and pasted the post here but it's just too painful to recreate the formatting and links.

Based on my own research, I decided that from your list the BATTLE ROYALE, DON'T LOOK NOW, METROPOLIS, OLDBOY and RE-ANIMATOR remakes appear to either have stalled or been scrapped.

I really wish I hadn't just read this post.  :bluesad:

I think my killing spree is about to start sooner than planned...

No need to give me credit.   :tongueout:

I wouldn't be surprised either way about those movies being canceled.  Then again, speculation arose likewise over the Suspiria remake and The Thing whateveritsgoingtuhbe, not to mention the Dragon Ball movie.  It could also be likely that those movies will either disappear, or find a home with a new director and crew like the Godzilla remake did several times over.  There was even a rumor of a Suspiria anime at one point.  My theory as to why there are so many adapted ideas and sequels here is that the studios green light so many, only to can them within a few years or put them on the back burner.  My honest thought is that a good number of these upcoming films won't see the light of day.

I just found out there's going to be a sequel to Raging Bull!  :buggedout:

I'm surprised there aren't any plans to remake the remake of Star Trek yet.  It's been 48 freakin' hours already.

Yes, just because a studio or someone buys the rights doesn't mean the movie gets made.  BATTLE ROYALE seemed ready to go but they put it on hold after the Virginia Tech shootings, and there's been no movement sense. Stuart Gordon was asked about the RE-ANIMATOR one and he said he hadn't heard anything about it, and after that the rumors stopped.  I ruled out the others because there hasn't been any movement on them in two years.  Of course, I didn't investigate every title on the list, just the ones that looked interesting to me.

 Wow, I am literally blown away...If most of these films are being remade or getting sequels, I would not know whether to laugh or cry. Too bad, sequels often never to the originals justice. Remakes are usually not even worth watching. It's the sad truth, but somebody's gotta say it.

Add Jack the Giant Killer and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to that list, as well as Siren (I'm assuming it's based on the video game).  All three are in the hands of Sam Raimi as far as producer goes, so hopefully they won't be too bad.