Some of those titles sound like a joke :-)

Best idea for Die Hardest in the tone of Galaxy Quest and JCVD: Bruce Willis (playing himself) is on the way to the wrap up party of Die Hard 19 in Los Angeles. Kevin Smith plays the head of a group of devoted Die Hard fans, committed to kill off Bruce Willis, preventing him to make any more shitty sequels and ruining the franchise. But Bruce turns out to be more resourceful than they thought...

http://friendsinyourhead.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1426

Lol!

I spammed the hell out of anapurna pics' twitter, wanting to pitch my terminator trilogy idea. I subsequently was twitter blocked! A year later they announce the trilogy, which seems to be some sort of reboot.. very annoyed to be honest.. My next plan is to ask james cameron to sell me the film rights for a dollar in 2019!

Meanwhile I hope to maybe shoot a horror movie in my town in order to get some cred

Studios need something "safe" to market two years in advance, what distribution expert Peter Broderick calls " content free "movies. Nothing is more safe than something already done. Like McDouble burgers. Predictably consistent all the time. The same thing all the time also keeps the culture in line...

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -George W. Bush

This over scholarly book shows how Alien III actually was a remake of Joan of Arc..

Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise Anat Zanger , Amsterdam University Press

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Film-Remakes-Ritual-Disguise-Transition/dp/9053567844

Cinema as a social institution knows what Scheherazade seems to have known all along: to narrate is to triumph over death. Hence, in an ongoing ceremony that occurs in the darkness of the movie theater (and lasts, ultimately, more than 1001 nights), society constantly delivers its encoded messages. The constant repetition of the same tale keeps it alive in social memory, continually transmitting its meaning and relevance. It is in this context that I suggest that the presence of repetitive chains of remakes can be identified as “hidden streams” (Bazin’s term, 1955 ) in the imaginary archive of the cinema.

The tendency of cinema to produce a “remake” that retells a previously successful story has to be accounted for in the light of the medium’s unique capacity for reproduction. Given the fact that recorded versions already exist, what is the purpose of re-addressing and re-articulating the same story time and again?

---It is my contention that all of these stories are encoded expressions that society keeps transforming in order to tell itself about itself. The constant repetition of the same stories, like the retelling of myths in the sense to which Lévi-Strauss referred (1958), keeps them alive in social memory, continually transmitting their meaning and relevance.

Looks like no more Indiana Jones sequels. Disney owns the rights, but Paramount owns the distribution rights to Theatrical, DVD & Bluray, so no financial incentive for Disney. Also Harrison Ford is 70.....

Now I really want to see Squirrels!!

@jazzroy

Me too!