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‘Back to the Future’ Tops Franchises That Audiences Would Like to See Remade
Slash Film ^ | November 21, 2018 | Hoai-Tran Bui

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.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: backtothefuture; christopherlloyd; michaeljfox; robertzemeckis
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To: EdnaMode

Good God no!


21 posted on 11/23/2018 9:54:52 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan
Nope - it was lightning in a bottle - great story, production, acting. Don’t go back, right SJW Ghostbusters?

You are right! Any remake of BTTF would probably crash at the box office.

22 posted on 11/23/2018 9:57:26 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: gaijin

They know their target market; this bread-and-circuses fluff is for the last bastions of low-IQ sheeple that look to movie and TV screens for entertainment. You notice this when you see NFL commercials targeting blacks, Asian women (the “watcher” goofiness), etc.; they’ve written off smarter people who turned off TV a long time ago - and they’re never coming back. The internet provides custom-made entertainment for any willing to look for it; no reason to be force-fed commercials/advertising/social engineering.


23 posted on 11/23/2018 9:58:26 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: carriage_hill

You didn’t miss much. About the most relevant part, which in retrospect makes me shake my head, was Libyan terrorists seeking the assistance of the time machine inventor to build a nuke, whereupon they come seeking retribution for the plutonium they gave him (which he used to power his time machine) in exchange for “a shoddy bomb casing full of used pinball machine parts” as the character puts it.


24 posted on 11/23/2018 9:58:35 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

No sarcasm, that would be the script for real. 8>(


25 posted on 11/23/2018 9:58:58 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The remake would be required to have gender-deranged main characters.

It is a requirement today that all movies be "woke" even if it affects the bottom line.

I was reading an article about the popularity of movies from the 80s with young people today who enjoyed them precisely because they weren't politically correct.

26 posted on 11/23/2018 10:00:10 AM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
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To: EdnaMode
Hollywood is pitiful..

Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix is worth watching though....very dry but entertaining ...

27 posted on 11/23/2018 10:16:57 AM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Well, it was electrical, basically. And that was just to power the flux capacitor. :-)


28 posted on 11/23/2018 10:17:58 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Olog-hai; carriage_hill
Actually, Doc Brown called them "Lybian nationalists".

An important distinction ahead of its time, as Big Media now considers "American nationalists" bad guys.


29 posted on 11/23/2018 10:22:52 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: EdnaMode
i know i know... CASABLANCA!!!
30 posted on 11/23/2018 10:23:37 AM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: EdnaMode

If they do it will be nothing a pile of Diversity


31 posted on 11/23/2018 10:25:43 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Dilbert San Diego
And remember how in Back to the Future, the bad guys coming after Doc were Libyans??? No way they could have such villains today.

Yep, they'll be Neo-Nazis this time.

32 posted on 11/23/2018 10:27:11 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cross dressing gender fluid ewoks.

Who wouldn't pay to see that? /s

33 posted on 11/23/2018 10:28:53 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: EdnaMode

I don’t think most audiences want to see “remakes” of classic films, an addition chapter, maybe, but not a liberal “remake”.

Those movies, like others of the era, were made to ENTERTAIN people...movies they make now are to INDOCTRINATE people into accepting SJW ideals, gays, transvestites, gender-benders, and socialists.

I won’t even watch the remake of “Flight of the Phoenix”, or, “The Time Machine”.


34 posted on 11/23/2018 10:40:10 AM PST by FrankR (Make America Great Again, and Keep It That Way.)
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To: EdnaMode

Screw hollyweird and their shitty movies.
That’s what I say
When I watch a movie with the mrs it’s alwats a classic
Bogart and Hepburn
Etc
That’s when there was REAL ACTING


35 posted on 11/23/2018 10:42:15 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: EdnaMode

Animal House. Caddyshack.


36 posted on 11/23/2018 11:03:28 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Chode

Gone with the Wimd.


37 posted on 11/23/2018 11:04:48 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: EdnaMode

This generation of Hollywood directors should keep their paws off “Back to the Future.”

Why take what was a great movie and destroy it with today’s Liberal Garbage.

The problem today is the media in all forms doesn’t have an original thought.So they have to remake all of the good movies of the past.

I don’t watch remakes at all.Their not worth the money.


38 posted on 11/23/2018 11:06:52 AM PST by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Very true. The bad guys would be wearing MAGA hats!


39 posted on 11/23/2018 11:10:02 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: EdnaMode

No. No no no no no! Just ... no!!!!!


40 posted on 11/23/2018 11:18:09 AM PST by al_c (https://conventionofstates.com)
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