Posted on 11/23/2018 9:33:08 AM PST by EdnaMode
Doc Brown may have hit it on the nose when he wildly guessed that there was a problem with Earth’s gravitational pull in the future, because there’s something off in Hollywood in 2018. We’ve had an influx of remakes and reboots of well-known and little-known franchises, all for the sake of nostalgia. But for some reason, we’re clamoring for more.
A new poll reveals that the next movie franchise remake that audiences want is Back to the Future. That, and a slew of other titles like The Matrix and The Hunger Games, because we can’t ever let things die. See the results of the franchise remake poll below.
The Hollywood Reporter conducted a poll with Morning Consult that found the franchise that audiences most want to see return is Back to the Future. Of the 2,201 adults surveyed earlier this month, a whopping 71% said they would want to take another trip in the DeLorean with Doc Brown and Marty McFly, closely followed by Pixar’s Toy Story (69%), Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones (68%) and Universal’s Jurassic Park (67%).
But wait, those following three are movies that already have remakes out or coming soon to theaters. That’s because the question specifically referred to movies they would watch “if a new movie in the series were to be released.” Which may explain the high performance of movies that are still on people’s radars, with the exception of box office heavyweights Star Wars and Marvel’s Avengers, which underperformed at 63% and 57%, respectively.
But there are a few non-active franchises that made it to the list. Following Star Wars and Avengers is Hunger Games at 55%, The Matrix at 54%, and Avatar at 53%. Seriously folks, it’s only been three years since The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 disappointed at the box office, and already you’re craving another one? We don’t need to revisit a bleak dystopian world when we’re already living in one. The Matrix is unlikely considering the Wachowskis’ looming retirement, but never say never, says the Guillermo del Toro-less Pacific Rim: Uprising. And I guess my constant bafflement at James Cameron working on four Avatar sequels is for nought, considering there’s an audience for it with at least 53% of Americans.
“There’s a strong consumer demand for movie reboots and sequels, which spells good news for movie studios looking to capitalize on that nostalgic feeling,” Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president told THR. “Our polling finds half of Americans say they are much more likely to watch throwbacks and revivals.”
The remake would be required to have gender-deranged main characters.
No thanks.
Nah.
Re-Make mania has set in permanently.
Remake Back to the Future where Marty is a confused transgendered teen and his only hope is to travel to 2018 where he would be free to live his life as he always dreamed it to be, wearing a dress. /s
Nope - it was lightning in a bottle - great story, production, acting. Don’t go back, right SJW Ghostbusters?
Set the reboot in, say, 2020 (by the time it eventually gets produced) and go back to 1990.
I’d like to see it remade, but with an all women cast, and the McFlys an interracial lesbian couple, and Biff as a neo-Nazi homophobe. I hope they spend hundreds of millions of dollars creating and marketing it, only to have it flop miserably, bankrupting the studio.
Also, the car would have to be a Tesla electric car rather that a DeLorean gasoline, oops, NUCLEAR engine. (We are talking about granola eating, no fat soy latte sipping, tree hugging, socialist Holyweird, after all!)
All this talk about BTTF remake, what might be cool is a reboot of the old “Time Tunnel” TV show. When properly researched, it could bring some interesting historical events to light for the kiddos who get nothing but SJW pablum in the government mind camps known as public education these days.
Why remake a classic? It won’t compare to the original.
And remember how in Back to the Future, the bad guys coming after Doc were Libyans??? No way they could have such villains today.
Sure it will. Very poorly.
A new movie? With a new Marty McFly? I’m not sure it’s a good idea. Seems kinda shakey.
Gender deranged, LOL. But you are correct they would insert such messages into remakes.
I’m sure they would have someone be “gay”, and talk of how “gays” in the future will marry. Homosexual marriage would have been unimaginable back in the ‘50s.
1. Super heroic females
2. Asian and white guys who can’t handle anything technical
3. Black physicists, computer hackers, molecular biologists, neurosurgeons
4. Murderer will be a white businessman or priest. Or bizman/priest
5. Kids featured? They will act like adults. Adults will act child-like
6. 50% of characters are gay and/or make gay-friendly statements. The person unsure about the wonders of homosexuality will be shown as an idiot who falls down, breaks stuff, or is needlessly cruel
7. Anyone Christian is an IDIOT
Remaking perfect movies is stupid. BTTF is still one of the best movies out there. It hasn’t aged a day.
Maybe they should remake all the crap movies they are making today minus the gratuitous sex and profanity.
Actually, the 2nd one was pretty good. But the 3rd one sucked. It was also when Fox found out he had Parkinson’s.
I skipped it altogether.
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