Re: Musings on Beowulf and Grendel

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From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:34:36 -0400

Re-imagining. Actually, I thought Burton's Planet of the Apes had a few really good ideas, and then dropped the ball, crashing and burning in spectacular fashion.

On 14 Oct 2004 at 10:10, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:

> In our household "re-imagining" a movie means: "Screw up the plot to add
> wire-fu stunts" (cf the "re-imagining" of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes,
> and The Musketeer, which came out within a month or so of PotA.) We had lots
> of fun "re-imaginging" classic movies:

Casablanca, Rick and Major Strasse
> have a Wire-fu battle in the hanger.

already been done. It's called "Barb Wire" - it stars Pamela Anderson Lee, has a shower scene, gun battles, but no wire fu that I remember. (There was also talk of a Kevin Costner/Demi Moore remake years ago, and a Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez one more recently. Neither has advanced, it seems.)