Super Mega Xmas Giveaway Extravaganza 1: eOne
Life has been busy, Salty Popcorn has been busy and Spooning Australia has been busy. Due to so much busy a lot of competitions and giveaways have fallen by the wayside and I am totally to blame for this. In an attempt to catch up for the new year and also because Christmas is coming we have THREE SUPER MEGA XMAS GIVEAWAY EXTRAVAGANZAS TO RUN. We are starting with an eOne Xmas Giveaway pack. Put it this way – these three giveaways are the greatest giveaways you will probably ever see on Salty – have I yet mentioned this comp is 3x packs of eOne movies and each pack is 15, CAN I HAVE ANOTHER CALL, FIFTEEN DVDs and/or Blu Rays.

Oh where to begin – as I said each pack contains both DVD and Bly rays and each pack has 15 movies and TV series. This thing is so awesome!! Our thanks to eOne is phenomenal.
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Movies

Maps to the Stars (BR)
From acclaimed director David Cronenberg comes a twisted tale of the dark secrets that lurk behind the closed doors of a celebrity obsessed Hollywood dynasty. Dr Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) made his fortune writing self-help books, but life with his overbearing wife Cristina (Olivia Williams) and thirteen-year old son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a child star fresh out of rehab, is anything but idyllic. When their estranged daughter Agatha (Mia Wasikowska) is released from a psychiatric hospital, she’s determined to make it in Hollywood and befriends a wannabe actor/writer limo driver (Robert Pattinson) and becomes PA to the neurotic actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore). Before long, the lives of each member of the family begin to take a darker turn as the ghosts from their past return to haunt them.
Song One
A young woman strikes up a relationship with her ailing brother’s favorite musician. Stars Anne Hathaway.
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden is a fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his lover start a new life on the uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalises the exploits of the Galapagos’ “Adam and Eve”, others flock there—including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson and a gun-toting Viennese Baroness and her two lovers. Things would never be the same.
Young and Beautiful
Nuanced, elegant and thought-provoking, the latest film from renowned French director François Ozon is a coming-of-age portrait set over four seasons and four songs. YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL chronicles seventeen-year-old Isabelle’s sexual journey from the awakening of her desires to her first time, from her exploration of love to her search for her identity.
The Love Punch
Kate (Emma Thompson) and Richard (Pierce Brosnan) are a divorced couple content to live their lives far apart as long as their retirement is comfortable. But when a sleazy French businessman, Vincent, bankrupts their company, they’re ready to put aside their differences and get their money back. Trouble is, there’s no legal way to retrieve the funds, and when Vincent literally throws them out of his office, they vow revenge. With the help of their obliging neighbours, Jerry (Timothy Spall) and Penelope (Celia Imrie), they hatch a madcap plot to steal a $10 million diamond the crooked Vincent has bought for his gorgeous fiancée. All they have to do is crash a wedding on an isolated island, sneak past armed security, and smuggle the diamond out without getting caught… if it works, it will be the ultimate payback.
What If?

Wallace (Daniel Radcliffe) and Chantry (Zoe Kazan) meet at a party while reading refrigerator magnet poetry and find that they have great chemistry….as friends. They form a relationship in which they talk about everything from movies to illnesses to disappointing Christmas presents. It’s heavy interest at first sight but there is a problem—Chantry has a serious boyfriend.
Wallace falls hard for Chantry and Chantry must deal with her growing feelings for Wallace. Should friendship be squashed due to budding romantic influences or can they control their desire to simply enjoy the benefits of a platonic relationship.
Told through their many meetings over the course of a year and interwoven with both Wallace and Chantry’s hyperactive imagination, the film hilariously demonstrates the complications of timing. All of their insecurities, regrets and victories are exposed.
Galore
It’s a sweltering summer before the final year of school. Best friends Billie (Ashleigh Cummings from Tomorrow When the War Began and hit TV show Puberty Blues) and Laura (Lily Sullivan who wowed audiences in Mental) share every secret, except one – Billie is crazy in love and sleeping with Laura’s boyfriend Danny. When Billie’s social worker mum takes in Isaac, a troubled teen looking to get his life straight, the delicate balance of the three friends’ lives is disrupted. The four teenagers immerse themselves in a swirl of parties, possible love, sex and desire – until secrets are revealed and their lives are thrown into chaos. Visually stunning, Rhys Graham’s debut feature captures the world of teenage suburbia with a sensuous and vivid intensity; a world where adults are exiled to the outer margins. Evoking the burning energy of adolescent rebellion against small-town inertia, GALORE is an intimate and hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age story of love, loss, and betrayal.
Better Living Through Chemistry
Meet small town pharmacist Doug Varney (Sam Rockwell). Soft in the middle, henpecked by his Type-A wife (Michelle Monaghan), Doug is sleepwalking through life, wishing things could change but doing nothing about it. He arrives at his place of employment, Bishop’s Pharmacy, on a beautiful square in downtown Woodbury, where he’s taking over the business from his father in law. Walter Bishop (Ken Howard), is a gruff know-it-all who doesn’t think much of Doug, when he thinks of him at all. Doug does what a local pharmacist does, filling prescriptions, consulting with patients, and trying to manage his two dimwitted staffers–checkout girl Janet (Jenn Harris) and delivery guy Noah (Ben Schwartz). But Doug’s whole life changes when he’s forced to make a delivery run and ends up at the magnificent home of Elizabeth Roberts (Olivia Wilde). A lonely, beautiful trophy wife, Elizabeth is trapped in her surroundings, much as Doug has been. Yet, despite being from different worlds, there’s instantaneous chemistry between them and when she drunkenly kisses Doug during their first meeting, a whole new avenue opens up for him.
Laggies (BR)
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Megan panics when her boyfriend proposes, then, taking an opportunity to escape for a week, hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year-old Annika, who lives with her world-weary single dad. Stars Keira Knightley, Sam Roockwell, Chloe Grace Moretz
TV Series:

Peaky Blinders Season 1
Peaky Blinders is an epic gangster drama set in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham on the cusp of the 1920s.
Britain in 1919 is a tumultuous mix of despair and hedonism, a nation cleaned out by the extravagances of the Great War. Returning soldiers, newly-minted revolutionaries and criminal gangs all fight for survival in an industrial landscape gripped by economic upheaval.
Thomas Shelby and his family run the most feared and powerful local gang, the Peaky Blinders. Named for their practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, they make money from illegal betting, protection and the black market.
But Tommy’s ambitions go beyond running the streets, and when a crate of guns goes missing from an arms factory, he recognises an opportunity to move up in the world. Crime pays, but business pays better.
Line of Duty Season 2 – I bloody love this show!!
Line of Duty returns for a second series, featuring a new police corruption story told over six one-hour episodes. The series opens explosively with the ambush of a police convoy in which three police officers are killed and a protected witness seriously injured. The sole surviving police officer is Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes).
Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden (Mark Bonnar) takes personal charge, assigning AC-12 to the case. Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott (Martin Compston), Detective Constable Kate Fleming (Vicky McClure) and Superintendent Ted Hastings (Adrian Dunbar) are joined by newly-appointed Detective Constable Georgia Trotman (Jessica Raine) to investigate a complex case rich in unexpected twists and turns.
Initially AC-12’s most valuable witness, the suspicion soon arises that DI Denton could be their prime suspect.
Turn Season 1

Great show starring Jamie Bell!
In this action-packed, political, spy thriller – based on Alexander Rose’s critically acclaimed novel Washington’s Spies, a farmer and a group of his friends become unlikely spies and turn the tide in America’s fight for independence. Every daring act, every vicious betrayal, every fatal mistake each friend makes resonates in the world around them and literally creates history. Ultimately, this epic drama is about one man at war with himself. Torn between his ideals and his desires, Abe’s personal fight for independence and the daring decisions he’s forced to make pulls him into the fight against his will and sets him on a treacherous journey, changing him from someone living in a world that controls him, to living in a world that he controls.
From Dusk Till Dawn Season 1
In this supernatural crime series, Seth Gecko (DJ Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richie Gecko (Zane Holtz), are wanted by the FBI and Texas Ranger Freddie Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia) after a bank robbery left several people, including policemen and Gonzalez’s mentor Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Don Johnson), dead. Heading for the Mexico border pursued by Gonzalez, the Geckos encounter former minister Jacob Fuller (Robert Patrick) and his family, whom they take hostage by commandeering the Fuller’s RV. Rerouted to strip club populated by vampires by a drug lord contact, they all must fight until dawn in order to survive.
The Missing
Brilliant show – love James Nesbitt!
A small boy was taken from his family.
A marriage fell apart.
A police officer lost hope.
A father searches on…
When five year-old Oliver is snatched from his family while on holiday in France, it sets off a manhunt that will last for years and years to come. The Missing takes you inside the mind of a father, desperate to find his lost son. Told through a delicate and complex narrative that reflects the fractured and frantic battle for a lost child, a lost marriage and a lost life, The Missing is a chilling, resonant and heartbreaking drama of a life consumed by hope and the conviction of love, loss and truth.
A poignant narrative puzzle with twists and turns at every stage, The Missing follows Tony, a man who will do whatever it takes to find his missing child. Tony’s exhaustive search fractures his marriage to Emily and threatens to destroy his life. Julien, the French police detective who launched the initial search for the child, also cannot shake the small belief that he may still be alive. This gripping relationship thriller is told over two time frames, simultaneously, in two countries. Exploring the emotional cost of obsession, hope and finding when to let go, this thrilling drama shows the impact of a child’s abduction.
Babylon
London’s police are in need of a major public image revamp and Chief Constable Richard Miller (James Nesbitt) thinks he’s found just the right person for the job. For Liz Garvey (Brit Marling), a visionary from the world of new media and the woman tasked with revolutionising the force’s image, the job couldn’t have come at a worse time as an outbreak of chaos and violence erupts in the capital.
Co-created by BAFTA® winners Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain (Peep Show), Oscar® winner Danny Boyle and Robert Jones (The Usual Suspects).
Babylon brings together acclaimed directors Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), Jon S. Baird (Filth) and Sally El Hosaini (My Brother The Devil), co-writer Jon Brown and an all star cast to take a wry look at the people and politics in the command rooms and on the frontlines of a modern police force.
With special thanks to Entertainment One to win one of the 3x Super Mega Xmas Giveaway Extravaganza packs you need to either like and share/ retweet this post on Facebook/Twitter/ Google+/ Pinterest/ LinkedIn/ Flipboard or Instagram (all the links to follow us are on the top right of homepage), you then need to leave a comment below stating the answer/s to the following questions:
What movies or TV shows need to rebooted/ remade and why? or do remakes reboots suck and pitch me a script! The most creative answers win. And please – if you want to win something this awesome you need to put in some serious effort :).
If you do not have social media then get with the times – you can still enter, leave your entry below and email me at jking@saltypopcorn.com.au telling me you don’t have social media (you still need to enter on the website).
Prizes will be selected purely on the thoughts of the judges, said judges being the Salty Kernels.
The prizes will be sent on or after November 30 when the competition closes! Good luck! Oh, and minor housekeeping – huge apologies for overseas readers, this competition is only available to Australian residents.
What movies or TV shows need to rebooted/ remade and why? or do remakes reboots suck and pitch me a script!
I liked the remake of Halloween by Rob Zombie in 2007 and Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Psycho. I think they need to add something. Rob Zombie took the mask off the villain to reveal something even more terrifying: mental illness. Van Sant added the dimension of colour and heightened emotions with pattern and visual contrast.
All of these superhero reboots within just a few years of the last attempt just seem silly to me. It’s all low quality, low depth, overly focussed on CGI and explosions.
I would like to see a Sam Mendes remake of Gone Girl, i think David Fincher missed the mark on that one. He also missed the mark when he remade The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Pitch you a script: every Tom Hardy character (Bane, Mad Max, Ivan Locke, Forrest Bondurant, Eames, Heathcliff, Handsome Bob, Bill Sikes, Stuart Shorter, and Shinzon) all in a locked room situation where they outplay and outwit each other. So ten Tom Hardys all played by Tom Hardy.
A Remake of the Tv Series of Murder She Wrote and The Golden Girls would be amazing, who can resist the nosy old ladies who cause so much trouble they come off like saints in each episode, I would love to see a latin version of Murder she wrote starring JLo or Salma Hyaek,
Favourite TV show that could do with a reboot would be welcome back Cotta With so many characters and so many different personalities in one classroom it really had you in stitches could never get enough of the show I think a reboot would be good and modernise it with technology handheld devices that often aget the kids in trouble in classes these days .. You could have your nerds,goths,cheerleaders and dummies all together for a CLASS ACT to remember !
I thinks there needs to be a remak/reboot of quantum leap, Preferably starring Scott backups in some capacity. It was such an amazing show and the premise was refreshing and so cool. I hate the way the show ended. I.wanted Sam to het a happy ending. I would love to be a writer for the new series. I could put my tv and movie knowledge to good use and be a part of something magical
I think Blake’s Seven needs a serious rebooting. There’s so much mileage in the concept of freedom fighters on the edge, all willing to sell each other out with only one charismatic idealist holding the team together. Overall remakes and reboots are awful but at least they’re not as bad as prequels.
THE movie that needs rebooted is Shangri La. Why? SIMPLE! With SO much plastic surgery and so many people living longer anyway, they could take it a new direction and have people altering themselves just to be unique. In a society where everyone is beautiful and ageless, the monotony of it would sink in. SO! it could be a thriller/horror/satire. A reboot showing how demented things would get when people could and would deform themselves JUST to be interesting & escape the annual ennui of always being ‘perfect’. The possibilities are the stuff of nightmares! Michael Bay probs would not be the director for this, more Paul Verhoeven!
Now, as far as a TV show there’s one I can think of that could be rebooted but with only the best writers and that would be . . . UFO! A seventies fave about organ harvesting aliens that are being pipped regularly at the post by a secret group called SHADO (Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation).
With today’s computer graphics and so much social unrest globally, this little TV epic could whip things into a small screen frenzy as plot, counterplot, double cross and all out hatred spurred splinter group against splinter group into trying to get someone else served up to the aliens other than themselves. Yes we had Alien Nation BUT that was somewhat tame. I see a real onslaught AFTER the word gets out publicly that the aliens are real, here and grabbing organs. I mean, that’s just not nice as Justin Bieber might say. THEREFORE; reboot, remake, revitalise UFO. It’s been TOO LONG since we had a cult runaway hit TV Sci-Fi show on the air WITHOUT humans and aliens falling in love and getting soppy! Bring on UFO for the social media generation so that teenage girls and boys the world over can all flick on their devices and enjoy some alien paranoia for a change, instead of just living in fear of Kim Kardashian’s latest outfit,(though I won’t deny I think she often looks really nice, sometimes.) WELL there’s some food for thought. Now my Popcorn’s just finished popping it IS Halloween & I’m off to enjoy the all immortal classic, Halloween 1978 all over again like I’ve never seen it before for the very first time. Does it need another reboot? SACRILEGE! Rob Zombie’s were enough. O.k. this salted caramel kernel bids you adieu, stay cool and I look forward to more of your corny posts.
Instead of jumping in right away with a comment, I’ve spent some time thinking about the question, to demonstrate that I have put in some serious effort. Problem is, I keep coming back to my initial thought! I think of the TV series that I watched growing up and what I would like to see back on the big or small screen now. I think of The Muppets, 21 Jump Street – and they have already been rebooted. The former better than the latter, I’d say, but already redone. I also watched Dr Who at our neighbour’s place when a kid – and hated it – but now that it is back on the small screen, I have to admit that now I’m quite a fan. Of Matt Smith more than Peter Capaldi, and certainly both have it in spades over Tom Baker (apart from the scarf). But what jumped into my head when I was first asked for which TV show to be rebooted/remade? That would have to be ‘Moonlighting’. A detective show with a difference. Bruce Willis before Die Hard paired with Cybill Shepherd. There was quick wit, romantic tension, mysteries to solve and often a refreshingly new take on things. Receptionist Agnes DiPesto would alway answer the phone in rhyme. There were direct references to the audience or TV production. And the fantasy sequences! The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice! Yes, I would love to see ‘Moonlighting’ rebooted – though it could so easily be disappointing. But maybe, just maybe the Coen Brothers could bring a freshness to a reboot and allow the moon to light brilliant TV once more.Well I can dream …..
Does anybody remember Combat with Vic Morrow, I would seriously love a remake/reboot of that series. It would have to be a hit if made now especially with what is happening in the world today, action on the grown in the war fields with troops we get to know and love. A Hit Series.
LOST needs to get rebooted.
I was NOT happy with the way that the show ended. It felt like the writer’s just gave up and went with the theory that everyone had speculated on for 6 years. There are still many things that were never resolved (for example Libby’s connection with Hurley and the numbers before she had even met him)so i would love to see this explained. I loved how this show would give you something to speculate about and every week you would talk to people (even strangers) about what was happening on LOST.
I think on the whole remakes and reboots are never as good as the originals as we all have such high expectations and our memories of the originals are probably tainted as we were younger and at the time nothing like it was around to compete with it.Most original series had an actor that stood out like Robin Williams as Mork or The Fonz from Happy Days and that was usually what made the series so successful. Having said all that I’m going to contradict myself and say The Twilight Zone should be remade. There are so many excellent sci-fi writers out there and many of their short stories could be easily made into an episode as long as they keep the surprise ending and usual moral to the tale. It would need to have big name celebrities in them but acting out of their comfort zones (get the pun).
Going to put all my eggs in the Madman basket. 😉
Good luck everyone!
I can’t believe you’ve snuck the Young and Beautiful giveaway into this amazing competition after I’d been waiting patiently to give you my 1000 word essay on Francois Ozon for 6 months 😉 But that’s okay, there’s an easy solution, I’ll just pitch you a Hollywood remake of each and every Francois Ozon movie from his filmography. I’m pretty open-minded on the remake front, often times I don’t see the point especially when it’s just a US remake of a film that happened to do well in some country’s box office, presumably because I spend a lot of time reading subtitles but occasionally I see one that’s genuinely better than the original such as the David Fincher remake of The Girl With A Dragon Tatto – I’m still kinda hoping he’ll make the others. So here goes:
Sitcom – Ozon’s first and one of my first favourite forays into arthouse cinema, it’s a black comedy instigated by the youngest brother coming out as gay, his sadomasochistic sister and the arrival of a free-spirited maid and is all shot in pastels with most importantly a new pet rat. I reckon it’s ripe for a Hollywood remake with Josh Hutcherson as the brother and Chloe Grace Moretz as his sister with Pixar coming on board to do the animation on the rat ! Pixar meets arthouse.
Criminal Lovers his next plays out like a bizarre Hansel & Gretel with young love, a schoolyard murder, armed robbery and then a hideout in the woods with a peculiar twist involving a woodsman. It’s a dark twisted story which some of Hollywood’s youngblood could get their teeth into, we’ll turn the school murder into a killing spree for contemporary topicality and cast Dakota Fanning and Daniel Radcliffe.
Water Drops on Burning Rocks – a 50 year old businessman falling in love with a 20 year old boy. It’s time for the acting royalty like George Clooney to tackle this one, let’s see how he gets on with Asa Butterfield. It’s serious stuff but ever timely and the type of alternative storyline we don’t see much of in gay dramas so needs an English version to get more viewers.
Under The Sand – Charlotte Rampling loses her husband at sea and experiences intense grief. It’s in French obviously but let’s keep Charlotte Rampling because she’s a goddess, increase the grief a bit to keep Hollywood happy, let’s have her lose 3 children aswell and maybe her dog and some cute kittens. Yep, that would be enough grief. Also, they come back to haunt her. I’m getting carried away on this one.
8 Women – If I’m being serious, this is the one I’m most surprised has never been remade. An all female technicolour musical whodunnit, it’s absolutely hilarious. We’ll bring in all the big guns – Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Glenn Close, Uma Thurman and Kristen Stewart as the young maid. With that cast and the already mad plot, we’re not going to change much else but let’s add some rap numbers, I really want to see Meryl Streep rap and a bit of Sandra Bullock break-dancing. Though naturally we’ll have some extra twists and an extra murder.
Swimming Pool – this one needs a radical overhaul, it’s Charlotte Rampling again in a very artsy interplay with the sexy young Ludivine Sagnier. But I’m doing a complete revamp, we’re going to make it Charlotte Rampling as a matriarchal style coach of an Olympic Diving Team. See, we can still call it Swimming Pool and guess what? we’re going to have Zac Efron as one of the divers spending the whole movie in those teensy speedos olympic divers wear while being bossed around by Charlotte Rampling. I’m losing my arthouse credibility with this one aren’t I?
5×2 – I love this film, a relationship played out in 5 acts backwards. We’ll shuffle the acts randomly so you’re not sure which stage you’re in. Backwards is a bit obvious really. And let’s make it a threesome.
Time To Leave – it’s hard to be funny about a film in which the gorgeous lead gay character dies of terminal cancer while lonely and depressed. So let’s just remake this one sensitively and faithfully with Zac Efron obviously as the lead, I’m betting on an Oscar Nomination.
Angel – this was really bad, let’s pretend we’ve forgotten about it.
Ricky – It’s about a baby which grows wings. Yes, really. This wasn’t very good either but it’s a novel concept and cries out for a remake with way more absurdity and surrealism. I’m calling on Spike Jonze to rework this a la Being John Malkovich. Why do only good films get remade? Really if you think about it, they should keep remaking the bad ones until they make a good version !
Hideaway – Young love ruined by drugs and death. It’s depressing and this is Monday morning, our lead this time played by the gorgeous Mia Wasikowska will lose Chris Hemsworth to drugs only to discover his brother Liam Hemsworth in the eponymous Hideway. This is where we’ll change things up, it turns out the death was staged, and Chris reappears and they enter into a bizare menage a trois. With a happy ending. I seem to be having to create a lot of happy endings here. I’m figuring out why people don’t love French movies.
Potiche – it’s a French farce so this time we’re going to make this in the UK and resurrect the Carry On franchise. I’m casting Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren to replace Gerard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, we already know Ian McKellen can do comedy from his TV Sitcom and I bet Helen Mirren has been crying out for a comedy role for years. And we’ll bring in all the British Acting royalty in bit parts, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith. I bet there’ll be sequels, this is going to be like a retirement fund for them all.
In The House – a strange tale of a student drawing himself into the life of a friend’s family, writing about it and involving his teacher. It’s a complex affair and what it’s really crying out for is to be slightly tweaked and rewritten as Good Will Hunting 2 the sequel in which Matt Damon is the teacher almost 20 years on from the original, we’ll make it about mathematic equations and how the student sees life and people as numbers and a touching lesson on living with autism. And we’re bringing in Logan Lerman as the student. This one is going to win Oscars !
Young & Beautiful ! – Yay, we’ve reached the movie in the giveaway though I’m pretty sure nobody is still reading. A teenage girl with a secret life as a call girl, this is never getting greenlit for Hollywood so I’m taking it to Russia, and removing all the dialogue, and including long-takes in which nothing happens, and a lot of shots of clouds, and no soundtrack. It’s going to be awesome.
The New Girlfriend – this one is so easy. The secret life of a young newly married cross dresser as adapted from a Ruth Rendell novel and shot as a light comedy (who says all French movies are dull and arty?). All we need is Zac Efron in a dress. We all want to see Zac Efron in a dress right? This is going to be Box Office Gold.
Hahahahahahah well of course you have to win something now don’t you – nice essay and I do love the Zac cross dressing suggestion but he may need to bulk down 🙂
How about we both act as producers and we’ll make a call on whether or not Zac has to bulk down in rehearsals?
I don’t know if I can share 🙂
Well once we’re in pre-production meetings, we can discuss casting for the rest of the Olympic diving team in our remake of Swimming Pool (also starring Zac) and then I don’t think we’ll need to worry about sharing 🙂
I’m not a huge fan of reboots or remakes, but I’ve thought about this question for a day or two now, and the tv show I’d like to see remade would be Romper Room. Yes it’s probably not even a show many would remember, no memorable characters (unless you consider Mr Do-Bee to be one!), and no great storyline either. But hear me out.
I’ve chosen this tv show for a few reasons.
One: in the American Romper Room, the national anthem featured in each episode. I’d love our young Aussie kids to learn our national anthem from a young age, and this would be a perfect way to introduce them to it.
Two: It is a show targeted at the under 5 age group. Us mums (and dads) need all the help we can get to distract and entertain our little ones, and to be honest,I dare say The Wiggles and Dora just aren’t cutting it anymore. A fresh new show (albeit a remake!) is needed.
Three: As a kid, I waited eagerly at the end of every episode for Miss Helena to look through her magic mirror and call out my name. Countless times I’d tell myself “today’s the day”, only to be disappointed when my name wasn’t called.
With the weird and wonderful names out there in this day and age, it’s reason enough for the show to be bought back and to hear “Romper, stomper, bomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play? I can see Diamond, and Storme, and Navaeh, Zeppelin and Saffron…..oh, and Michelle!” 😉
I’ve always wanted to see a remake of the 1984 film Streets of Fire. I grew up on this film and was in love with Ellen Aim. Keep the same 80’s setting, hire a young pop starlet to be kidnapped (anyone but the screeching Ariana), a Hollywood hunk to save her (Charlie Hunnam) and the big twist… cast a female as the villain who kidnaps the starlet (Emma Roberts plays nasty bitch well). Add a rocking 80’s soundtrack (as long as the original songs are kept as well and lots of neon and big hair and we have a Hollywood hit!Just keep Jonah Hill away from the Rick Moranis role.
greatest western ever John Fords Classic THE SEARCHERS starring John Wayne have heard that there was talk of a remake they did True Grit .Westerns seem to be not the money makers like the vampire and zombie movies
Lancelot Link Secret Chimp would make a brilliant remake. We all got a kick out of the old PG Tips Tea adverts with the chimps and even though Lancelot Link Secret Chimp was aimed at children there were plenty of adults that loved watching it. It was clever and always gave you a laugh.
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For me there’s no point rebooting or remaking a classic – it will never be as good as the original and will put people offside before they’ve even watched it so you need to remake a really terrible series or movie as its prospects can only look more promising straightaway. my nomination goes to Showgirls – the potential to do it right (or better) is glaring – casting Jennifer Lawrence as Nomi and Bradley Cooper as Zack you have the whole population lusting after the two hottest people on the Earth (guaranteeing box office records) With Emma Stone as rival Cristal this movie will have all the star power to guarantee pulling in a crowd. Sam Mendes to direct (yet to make a turkey) the dancing scenes will be stylish, classy and full of action with a script by Woody Allen – full of quips, one liners and self-deprecation – we’ll be laughing at this film for all the right reasons! tell me I’m wrong, I dare you!
I think Roberto Colombi’s response deserves to win something, i was thoroughly entertained!
I would love a remake of “Flipper”, lame maybe, I watched a bit of the first episode on youtube the other day. I didn’t realise it was so old, it was made way before I was born! But I used to love watching it, and my daughter who is 13 is a dolphin freak, but I think a cool updated version with silky, bright colours would be awesome to warch!
I will share on facebook.
The West Wing, perhaps partially because I’ve seen the show too many times to rewatch, but primarily as it’s the kind of show that TV viewers (nay) the world needs. It’s a show about belief that the democratic system can be great and governments can achieve progressive outcomes at their best. It’s also a show that treated serious issues seriously, without unnecessary pessimism, or ideology but in an adult, mature way. Sigh.
Starsky and Hutch – forget about the damn awful Ben Stiller movie – this tv series is ripe for a remake. Cop shows are a guaranteed ratings winner and with the right casting this would be no different. I would go with Mark Ruffalo as Starsky (tough, rugged and determined) ‘a bit of rough’, Eddie Redmayne as the eye candy, thinking woman’s bit of crumpet, Will Smith bringing the sass to the role of Huggy Bear (can you just picture him in that multi-coloured fur lined full length coat) and Samuel L. Jackson as Commander Dobey (the exasperated and overworked chief). Arrest your senses, Sentence yourself to an hour in front of the tv and have the Crime of your life. Starsky and Hutch rides again!
WINNERS WINNERS WINNERS
Andrew (for that novella)
Scott Crumlin
Judith Maunders
And because Kernel Morgan had some input for Roberto Colombi’s answer I might have to dig something out for him 🙂
THANKS FOR ENTERING PEEPS 🙂
Whoa! I think all my Christmases have come at once with that news! Thank you very much Salty!