"ice station zebra remake" Topic

Hollywood reporter had a blurb that ice station zebra is in the remake pile.

Interesting.

Will the audience be given a primer booklet on the cold war ?

Cold war.

Cold……war…..

Are they going to exchange North Koreans for Russians so we don't upset anyone in the international community?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stop ing about with classic films and make something original!!

Remakes serve a purpose. They introduce a new audience to stories (they are stories after all) that would have otherwise be lost foreever.

While Ice Station Zebra may seem like a "classic" to old timers like me (and others in the forum), we lived and breathed the Cold War for most of our lives, it is just dated, boring, and unremarkable to today's audience.

I say go ahead an remake films. Shooting a remake doesn't un-shoot the original. I can always watch whichever version I prefer and a younger (much younger) audience gets to see a story that I enjoyed so many years ago.

X-Rays is at the very least, on the right track…provided the movie gets a top notch director, funding and high quality actors…and of course the script is not dumb downed.

Actually, the script to be adjusted to fit the ending more in line with the novel.

As long as those proviso's are met…warum nicht?

But knowing Hollywood recently, the movie might get an "avant-garde" director with a bunch of young starlings and be a complete c*ck-up!

Its an "OK" movie at best anyway.
I never considered it a classic.

I'll watch it again when/if it gets remade.
There's no reason to expect it but who knows, maybe the new version will be better.

The Best line is the one about the German Scientists

The Russians put our camera made by *our* German scientists and your film made by *your* German scientists into their satellite made by *their* German scientists.

I back ya, The Tin Dictator.
I saw it recently again, and remembered it being better…
Neat, but dull at parts.
Overall, a decent flick, but not a classic, IMO.

A "clasic"? Hardly.

Lord save us from the stupidity of the lazy men!

Loved the novel. Meh for the movie. Maybe the new one can get a "meh+".

Is that the movie where the guys defending the building setup inside some metal pipes to create fire zones or something?

No, that was made for TV bs.

"I'll thank the Electric Boat company."

It does have some very good lines.

Rock Hudson: "And suddenly you seem to know an awful lot about submarines!"

Patrick McGoohan: "Oh I know how to wreck them." (With the implication that he has indeed wrecked a few. :)