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

Keith
/ December 21, 2012You might be a bit harsh. But I might feel differently once I’ve watched The Hobbit!