is going to slaughter another sci-fi classic by remaking 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves taking over Michael Rennie’s portrayal of Klaatu.
We can only hope... 
the producers cast Algore as Gort!
Ya know... 
they are the same size now!
Though I must admit Keanu has a vague resemblance to Michale Rennie, though I shudder to think how the usual suspect Liberal Left screenwriter will 1) make it all Bush’s fault or 2) have Gort kill off all Republicans!
Spielberg’s 2005 War of the Worlds was a failed attempt, IMHO, to recreate 1953’s The War of the Worlds. Without mentioning Tom Cruise's embrassing acting, the holes in Steven’s plot would allow all of Mexico’s long haul truck to drive though them in a line abreast! The main black hole was the alien’s buried their machines eons before?
I see Steve is in preproduction on a remake of 1951’s When Worlds Collide, I never considered it a classic, but I’ve no doubt it will stand up well to Spielberg’s new effort. I’m sure he has a heroic female Prez ala Hillary saving all the women and minority children while allowing the devilish Right Wingers to die in the cgi collision.
Just recently they remade again 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers with this 3rd encounter having Nicole Kidman and new 007 Daniel Craig fight the new, improved pod people. I’ve not seen this 2007 work and don’t expect to...
John Carpenter’s The Thing in 1982 was another doomed recreation of a classic B&W sci-fi film, Howard Hawks’ 1951 The Thing from Another World. It was not as bad as the others, but it still never came close to the original.
Why cannot Hollywood do some original classic sci-fi works from Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov or Authur C. Clarke...
Opps, they already butchered Heinlein Starship Troopers in 1997, so why don’t I learn my lesson that the current crop of Hollywood filmmakers cannot pour piss from a boot, much less make a good sci-fi film nowadays!
Maybe... 
in the next life some West Coast heavies from the 40s and 50s will be reincarnated to make some great sci-fi films instead of remaking poor imitations.
Nobody in Hollywood has had an original thought since...well, since ever.
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Have hope. It might be good.
I loved Gort; he was a great robot, but the movie was slow moving. It was also too preachy-trying to “teach us a better way”, and espoused moral equivilance between the U.S. and the Communists. I imaging Reeves’ character will attempt to teach us war mongers not to “bicker” with Moslems.
Well, they massacred War of the World with that hobgobblin, Tom Cruise, and the screaming kid.
They can really mess up The Day.
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You mean Keanu isn’t playing the robot?
There, I said it.
A much better story without all the 50's nuclear paranoia.
What we'll get, though, is Klaatu trying to save us from carbon dioxide and capitalism.
"Here, take this diamond. Where I er come from, we use them as money. It's a great way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere!"
Gnut was the robot's original name but we could still call it Gore_t
I like to go to bad movies in their fourth week, when there’s no one but me and one other person in the theatre, and I sit right next to them, and wait for them to say something, then turn to them and say “Shhh...I can’t hear Keanu.”
-Zach Galifianakis
Today’s Hollywood will make the robot Gort homosexual...
Oh yeah, Earth will be faced with imminent destruction unless everybody becomes a liberal homosexual...
Yes, Al Gore should have a prominent role in this remake. After all, he did look like a gay robot in that 2000 debate with Bush.
The only way that they could possibly make it interesting is if they followed the original short story instead of remaking the actual movie. Of course, then the title would make no sense at all. But then again, they aren't planning on "following the movie" anyway.
The problem with these kind of remakes is that it supposes that the world of the movie is EXACTLY the same as the world we live in EXCEPT that one particular movie had never been made and no one knows what "Klaatu barada nikto" means.
It'd be more interesting if they set it in the 50s or the 60s.
Keanu is going to be the robot, right?
I was also surprised with the remake movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I thought that it was a decent remake.
MICHAEL RENNIE was ill the day the EARTH STOOD STILL
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear
Claude Raines was the invisible man
Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace it came from outer space
And this is how the message ran:
Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Ann Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.
I knew Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot when I saw Janet Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide, said George Pal to his bride
I’m gonna give you some terrible thrills, like a:
Science Fiction - Double Feature
Dr. X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Ann Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh-oh at the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go, oh-oh, to the late night double feature picture show.
By RKO, oh-oh, at the late night double feature picture show.
In the back row at the late night double feature picture show.
I assume Bruce Campbell is in the running for Patricia Neal’s role?