Peter Jackson remakes


Here’s a collation of suggestions for Peter Jackson movie remakes.

  • Bad Taste, Indigestion, Diarrhea
  • Meet Heidi, Meet Trevor, Meet Bletch, Meet Samantha, Meet Robert, Meet Lucille
  • Tales From The Crypt, The Grim Reaper, The Frighteners
  • Heavenly Creatures, Hellish Creatures, Atheist Ashes and Worms
  • Brainless, Brainalive, Braindead
  • Forgotten Gold, Forgotten Silver, Forgotten Bronze
  • Lady of the Rings trilogy
  • The Lovely Bones, The Awful Bones, The Ordinary Bones
  • Kermit Kong, Prince Kong, King Kong

This started on Twitter #PeterJacksonRemakes (by Bilge Ebiri ‏@BilgeEbiri):

  • “CITIZEN KANE is so dark, let’s open the windows and see what’s in those annoying shadows!”
  • “Godard is great and all, but I for one want to know what happened between those jump cuts!”
  • “With the miracle of modern technology & longer runtimes, we’ll finally learn how that bone got to be a spaceship!”
  • “‘He never saw Lady Lyndon again.’ But what if he DID?”
  • “I love La Jetee, but I’d love it so much more if the pictures actually moved, and really fast.”
  • “The French plantation scene isn’t long enough.”

Then it became suggested titles:

  • Next Year at Marienbad
  • The Year After Next at Marienbad
  • An Even Longer Day’s Journey Into Night and Back Again
  • A Hard Day’s Week
  • Groundhog Year
  • 28 Years Later
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring And This Summer
  • The Longest Yard By Far
  • Nine 1/2 Years
  • There Came a Hot Fortnight
  • Came as Hot Month of Fridays
  • The Comparatively Short Kiss Good Night
  • The Assassination, Burial, Mourning and Subsequent Moving On and Forgetting about of Jesse James
  • Apocalypse In Perpetuity
  • Ferris Bueller’s Semester Off
  • Batman Forever And Ever And Ever And Ever And Ever And Ever
  • Gone And On And On And On With The Wind
  • 1.23E+50 First Dates
  • 3000
  • 500 Years of Summer
  • Die Another Decade
  • The Last Three of the Mohicans
  • You Only Live 16 Times
  • The 399 Steps
  • Bridget Jones’s Encylopedia Britannica-like Diary
  • Dial M for Murder, Then Dial C for Coronor, Then Dial I for Indictment, Then Dial T for Trial, Then Dial 9 to Get Out
  • the neverending story; for real
  • Three Months of the Condor
  • Se7enty
  • Good Morning, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, East Timor & Myanmar
  • What Happened to Baby Jane in the last 70 Years?
  • Full chain-mail jacket
  • 1000 Things I Hate About You
  • Chronicles of Narnia Part 72: Aslan Hears a Who
  • Snow White and the 7 Dwarves’ extended families.
  • The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover, The Sword Guy, Two Disaffected Schoolgirls & Andy Serkis in There Somewhere
  • Fear and Loathing in New Zealand
  • The Breakfast, Morning Tea, Lunch, Afternoon Tea, Dinner, and Midnight Snack Club
  • Star Trek 3, parts a, b, c, and d
  • Three Amigos and their Forty Two Hombres.
  • The Long Walk Home, The Longer Walk Home and The Longest Fucking Walk Home Ever
  • Se415en
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey  Pt 1 features a David Attenborough doco and Part 3 is just 3 hours of CGI fractals and dubstep
  • Sleepless in Seattle. NEW! Now with MORE SLEEP!
  • Avatar: Redux
  • Cleopatra: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
  • The Green Parsec
  • Neverending Story 3
  • Did you miss a “D” off the end? Neverending Story 3(D) HFR
  • The Long Day Closes, The Long Night Starts
  •  Get LONGy
  • Lord of the Rings [no, seriously, he'll remake his own films]
  • The Absolutely Collosal Lebowski
  • Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest, and Really Totally Completely Stupid
  • Bring Me All The Other Bits of Alfredo Garcia
  • Oceans 14,15,16,17 and 18. In one movie.
  • 2012, and all preceding years.
  • The Life of Pi (to one million decimal places)
  • The First Amigo: Part One
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s Grandchildren, or Are They Grandparents?
  • 4 Weeks’ Annual Leave at Bernies
  • The Day After Tomorrow, and the next day, and the next, and the next, and the next, and the next
  • The Godfather part IV: the Early Years of Luca Brasi
  • 2001-3001: A Space Odyssey
  • The Hobbit: Pages 11-14
  • The Shawshank Redemption – In a Single Take
  • Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Death, and 163 years of decomposition
  • Gone With the Wind and Back Again: A Scarlett’s Tale
  • Life of Pi and the infinite decimals
  • The Titanic Trilogy (or How Many Times Can One Boat Sink?!?)
  • Back To The Future, Present And Past
  • y tu long tambien
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Next Week and Next Year
  • Jurassic Park The Prequel
  • The Thirty-nine Thousand Steps
  • planes, trains, automobiles, rockets, bikes, scooters, skates and skateboards
  • Hard PG-13 Version of “Green Eggs And Ham”
  • Take Your Sweet Time, Lola, Take Your Sweet Time
  • 9 Hours of Charlotte’s Web
  • The Neverending Story VV:The End Of Time
  • The Good, The Bad, The Ugly – The Trilogy.
  • the postman rings 4 times
  • The Tale of Genji (Book 1~6) 36 x 140+ minute feature films coming soon(er or later?)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and then another one did, and another one, and another; and hey here come some more!
  • Honey, I exploded the kids
  • “Catch-1″ through “Catch-22″
  • The Green Nautical Mile
  • Quadruple Indemnity
  • Henry IV. Shakespeare only did Parts 1 and 2 – but the clue’s in the title: there have got to be four movies.
  • The Longest Day ….. and The Day After …… and The Day After That
  • The Bourne Retirement
  • The Bourne Resurrection: Brain Dead 2.
  • 4 Years and 28 Days later
  • Love Saga
  • Ferris Bueller’s day off, a 10 part, real-time movie series
  • Runaway Bride, the Moonies Version
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral and a Christening and a Bah Mitzvah
  • The Great Throw Momma From The Planes Trains and Automobiles Robbery
  • High midnight
  • Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • The Cure for Insomnia (slightly abridged)
  • “One Year in Tibet”, “A Second Year in Tibet” … “The Seventh Year in Tibet”
  • The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, The Sweet, The Nasty, The Cute, The Nice, The Naughty & The Odd Looking
  •  War and Peace: In real time.
  • 100 Years War – in 200 glorious episodes.
  • The Magnificent Seven Films
  • A Very, Very, Very, Very Long Engagement
  • Le Complet Destin d’Amélie Poulain
  •  The Cook, the thief, his hairdresser, his parapsychologist, his grocer, his plumber, his wife, and her lover
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Part One, League One
  • His Girls Friday, Saturday and Sunday
  • “The One Commandment”, “The Second Commandment”, etc
  • Back to the Future, Then Back to the Past, Then Back to the Future,and Again to the Past Before Coming Back Again.
  • The Lion, The Unicorn, The Tiger, The Witch, The Wizard, The Magician, The Cupboard, The Kitchen Sink & The Wardrobe
  • Pan’s Labyrinth Pt 1: A Wrong Turn, Pan’s Labyrinth Pt 2: A Bit Lost, Pan’s Labyrinth Pt 3: The Return to the Start
  • The Second Breakfast Club
  • The Never Ending Story, Literally
  • Goodbye Pork Pie, Fried Rice, Schnitzel, Roast, Sweet and Sour, Bones, and Puha
  • Constellation Trek, Star 1
  • New Zealand Beauty (spoiler: there’s a lengthy wide shot of a Countdown bag twisting in the wind over Central Otago)
  • Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • King Kong
  • The Green Miles and Miles
  • Talker
  • Came a Hot Long Weekend
  • Hamburger, Soft Drink And Fries With Extra Mayo Hill
  • Apocolypse later
  • Rosemary’s Baby grew up to become the wife of Woody Allen: This is her journey
  • Gone in 260 Minutes
  • The Postman Always Rings About 20 Times
  • Frome Here to Eternity in Real Time
  • 18 1/2
  • 4 1/2 Years
  • Hamlet, Act Six
  • Snow White and Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy
  • World War Two – in 26 weekly parts (free gift with first part)
  • Titanic – an Unexpected Journey
  • Groundhog Decade
  • The Hungry Caterpillar – An Unexpected Journey. Part 1 of the Septilogy.
  • A bridge far too far
  • Al Pacino, Babyface
  • 365 Day Party People
  • Trainset Spotting
  • Breakfast and Elevensys at Tiffanys
  • Speed (if the bus hits 5kmh, watch out!!)
  • Star trek: the very long voyage home
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer, Longer, Longer, Longer, Longer, Longer & Uncut
  • Slow Times at Ridgemont High
  • Super 8 -  Super 1, Super 2, Super 3…
  • Easy Rider, Easy Walker, Easy Runner, Easy Truck Driver
  • The Long, Long Good Friday
  • Kingdom Kong
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1 Comment

  1. Keith

     /  December 21, 2012

    You might be a bit harsh. But I might feel differently once I’ve watched The Hobbit!

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