Best and Worst Remakes?

I have a few movies with him on DVD - they are sitting in a drawer collecting dust. Next time I have a years sale - they’ll go cheap!

The Wild Bunch - Will Smith as Pike? And now he’s a DEA agent? No thanks.

I don't see how they can call it a remake if it's not an homage to the original?

It may very well be an entertaining movie and I like most of Will Smith's movies. But it sure doesn't sound like it will be "The Wild Bunch", regardless of the title.

I hate to tell you, but I was referring to the 2006 Casino Royale. As I noted to someone else, I was totally trying to come up with Wizard of Oz.

How many Tarzan remakes?

Also, “Robin Hood” has to be waaaayyyy up there with the number of productions.

Actually, there seem to be far more Robin Hood movies: 1908: Robin Hood and His Merry Men, a silent film directed by Percy Stow, and the first appearance of Robin Hood on the screen. 1912: Robin Hood, a silent film starring Robert Frazer as Robin Hood. 1913: Ivanhoe, featuring Walter Thomas as Robin Hood. 1922: Robin Hood, a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks. 1938: The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn in his most acclaimed role. Considered by many to be the best Robin Hood movie.[2] 1946: Bandit of Sherwood Forest a film starring Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nothingham, Robin Hood's son, Robin Hood was Russell Hicks. 1948: The Prince of Thieves a film starring Jon Hall as Robin Hood. 1950: Rogues of Sherwood Forest, a film starring John Derek as Robin Hood. 1951: Tales of Robin Hood 1952: The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, a feature from the Disney Studios, starring Richard Todd, Joan Rice and Peter Finch. 1952: Ivanhoe, a film featuring Harold Warrender as Locksley (Robin Hood). 1952: Miss Robin Hood, a British film starring Margaret Rutherford as a modern-day Robin Hood. 1953: Robin Hood a television series on BBC Television, featured Patrick Troughton, in the first representation of Robin Hood on television. 1954: The Men of Sherwood Forest, first colour production by Hammer Films starring Don Taylor as Robin. 1955–1959: The Adventures of Robin Hood, a long-running British series starring Richard Greene that is also remembered for its catchy theme tune. 1955: Robin Hood, the Movie (compilation from the Richard Greene TV series) (1991 release, according to some sources) 1956: Robin Hood's Greatest Adventures (also starring Donald Pleasence as Prince John) (compilation from the Richard Greene TV series) (1991 release, according to some sources) 1958: Robin Hood: The Quest for the Crown (compilation from the Richard Greene TV series) (1991 release, according to some sources) 1958-1959: Ivanhoe (1958 TV series), starring Roger Moore as Ivanhoe. Features Emerton Court[3] as "Sir Robert" in the episode "Arms and the Women". 1959: The Son of Robin Hood, where the 'son' of Robin Hood, is actually his daughter, played by June Laverick. 1960 Robin Hood e i pirati, an Italian film with Lex Barker as Robin Hood 1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest, a film with Richard Greene reprising his television role. 1964: Robin and the 7 Hoods, a musical film set in 1930s gangster Chicago, with Frank Sinatra as "Robbo". 1966: Robin Hood der edle Räuber, a German TV-film (2 parts) with Hans von Borsody 1967: A Challenge for Robin Hood, a Hammer version, with Barrie Ingham as Robin. 1967: Rocket Robin Hood, a space-age version of the Robin Hood legend, where he and his band of Merry Spacemen live in the year 3000 on Sherwood Asteroid and fight the evil Sheriff who rules the space territory of N.O.T.T. (Trillium / Steve Krantz Production) 1968: The Legend of Robin Hood, a 90 minute American television musical, featuring the songs of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. Starring David Watson as Robin Hood, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as King Richard. 1969: Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood 1970 : L'Arciere di Sherwood (known under the English-language titles Long live Robin Hood and The Scalawag Bunch), an Italian film starring Giuliano Gemma as Robin Hood. 1971: Up the Chastity Belt, starring Frankie Howerd, with Hugh Paddick as Robin Hood. 1973: Walt Disney's Robin Hood, perhaps the most famous animated version of the legend, which had the various characters depicted as anthropomorphic animal characters, including Robin Hood and Maid Marian as foxes. 1975: The Legend of Robin Hood, a six-episode BBC miniseries starring Martin Potter in the title role, Paul Darrow as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Diane Keen as Lady Marion. The adaptation was aired on public television in the USA later in the 1970s. 1975: When Things Were Rotten, a comedy TV series produced by Mel Brooks and starring Richard Gautier (as an imbecilic Robin Hood), Bernie Kopell and Misty Rowe. 1975: The Arrows of Robin Hood (Strely Robin Guda, Стрелы Робин Гуда), a Soviet adaptation in Russian by Sergey Tarasov, starring Boris Khmelnitsky as Robin Hood, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. 1975: Robin Hood Junior, starring Keith Chegwin as a young Robin. 1976: Robin and Marian, a film with a revisionist version of the story starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as a married couple at the end of their lives. 1982: Ivanhoe TV movie with Robin Hood played by David Robb. 1983: The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Ballada O Doblestnom Rytsare Ayvengo, Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго), a Russian adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Boris Khmelnitsky as Robin Hood, who helps Ivanhoe to restore Richard's kingdom. 1984: The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood, a made-for-TV spoof starring George Segal (Robin), Morgan Fairchild (Marian) and Roddy McDowall (Prince John). 1988: Storybook Classics: Robin Hood. Animated 1989–1994: Maid Marian and her Merry Men, a British children's TV show, rewrote the legend somewhat, with Marian as the dynamic leader of the resistance against Prince John, Robin as her thick-headed, cowardly, buffoonish figurehead, and Nottingham as John's put-upon, sarcastic enforcer. 1990–1992: Robin Hood no Daibōken (Japanese: ロビンフッドの大冒険), a Japanese animated series developed by Tatsunoko Productions, tells a version of the story in which Robin and his men (and women), as well as Maid Marian, are — in majority — children. This version also incorporates several fantasy elements, mainly expressed in mystic powers of the nature and a powerful treasure protected by the forest Sherwood itself. The whole series contains strong environmental messages. 1991: Young Robin Hood, an animated series developed by Cinar and Hanna-Barbera, tells a version of the story in which Robin and his men, as well as Maid Marian, are teenagers. This version also incorporates several fantasy elements. For example, Robin is sometimes assisted by a forest-dwelling old woman who knows magic. 1991: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Alan Rickman, with Sean Connery appearing as King Richard in the finale. 1991: Robin Hood, starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman, is a reinvention of the story pitting Robin Hood against different antagonists.[4] 1993: Mel Brooks's Robin Hood: Men in Tights spoofs both the 1938 and the 1991 films and recycles bits from his short-lived late-1975 Robin Hood TV sitcom When Things Were Rotten. Cary Elwes plays Robin in the movie, and Patrick Stewart appears in the ending, spoofing Sean Connery's take on King Richard. 1996: Robin of Locksley was a made for TV movie starring Devon Sawa as a modern teenage Robin attending a prep school with the snobbish John Prince, played by Joshua Jackson. 1997–1998: The New Adventures of Robin Hood, a France–U.S. TV series, starred Matthew Porretta as a black-leather-clad Robin in the first two seasons and John Bradley taking over the lead role in the final two seasons. The tone of the series resembled its contemporaries Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. Porretta had appeared as Will Scarlet O'Hara in Men in Tights. 1997: Ivanhoe, a TV mini-series featuring Aden Gillett as Robin of Locksley. 1999: The children's series Back to Sherwood featured a teenage descendant of Robin ("Robyn Hood") who discovers she has the power to travel back in time, and joins with the children of her ancestor's band (Joan Little, Phil Scarlet, etc.). 1999: The adult pantomime Boobs in the Wood. 2001: Princess of Thieves, a Disney-produced American made-for-TV movie, starred Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's (Stuart Wilson) heroic adolescent daughter, Gwyn, who takes over her father's role and comes to his rescue.[5] 2004: Nottingham 2051. Year 2051. Robin Hood and Little John want to deliver "essential pharmacies" in the third world.[6] Robin Hood is played by Tiziano Scrocca. 2005: King Arthur's Disasters, a Britsh animated series features Robin Hood who rivals Arthur. 2006–2009: Robin Hood, a BBC One television series, produced by Tiger Aspect. It was first broadcast as thirteen-episode series in the UK from October to December 2006, with a second series following in 2007, and third in 2009. Jonas Armstrong stars in the title role. 2007: Splitting the Arrow. Sometime in the 12th Century, a Documentary Crew entered Sherwood Forest in search of a legend. This is what followed.[7] Calvert Tooley plays Robin Hood. 2007: Robin Hood: Quest for the King. Animated Robin Hood tale 2008: Robin Hood: Prince of Sherwood starring Jason Braly as Robin Hood. 2009: Beyond Sherwood Forest, a TV movie starring Robin Dunne as Robin Hood and Erica Durance as Maid Marian.[8] 2010: Robin Hood. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe. 2012: Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men. A VeggieTales film released in spring 2012. 2012: Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse. A film released in October 2012 starring Tom and Jerry. 2012: Robin Hood: Ghosts of Sherwood, a German/US coproduction.[9]

Ugh! Sorry for that lack of format!

"BTW, since there have been so many remakes of film versions of “A Christmas Carol”, do they count?"

Does any (non-Bible) story have more remakes than "A Christmas Carol?"

My personal favorite was the musical "Scrooge" with Albert Finney. My pet peeve of many remakes is a half-grown 'Tiny' Tim.

I remember that one. The added storyline of Marley meeting Scrooge in hell was scary to me when I was a kid, although it turned into a bit of comic relief when Scrooge got his new infernal “office” with the heat turned off and covered in ice (he was to be Lucifer’s new clerk, serving in the same capacity as Bob Cratchit did for him).

Well, you ought to see the original, “No Man of Her Own “.

agreed. I loved it! Still have it on VHS

I really liked “The Man in the Iron Mask” with Richard Chamberlain, 1977

There’s a lot of superman remakes.

What you said is true, but...Renee Russo added a little more “heat” to it with that skimpy dress she wore...:)

Best remake - and about the only one I really like - The Thing - the John Carpenter version. Not that the original was shabby.

Best orginal--The Thing, Howard Hawks' version (1951) with James Arness as the monster. I saw it when I was about 9 yrs old and became imprinted.

How many Tarzan remakes?

They all were.

How about the Robert Taylor Elizabeth Taylor version of IVANHOE in which Locksley’s Rebels take part.

Also TIME BANDITS in which they meet Robin Hood.

The 1967 Casino Royale had an all-star cast—they even roped Debbie Kerr, George Raft and Orson Welles into the cast. However, whoever scripted and produced the film must have been on acid.

Best original--The Thing, Howard Hawks' version...

I agree - I saw it not too long ago. The dialogue was brilliant.

Excellent choices!

Thanks. I have to admit I only watched about the first 10 minutes of the The Pink Panther remake, so maybe it got better as the movie went along. I am a big fan of Peter Sellers, and the one with Steve Martin was so bad I just couldn't take it.

...Pink Panther remake, so maybe it got better as the movie went along...

It did not.