The original Death Race 2000 was a comedy. Granted it was dark and very sick with drivers including Sly Stallone racing from A to B performing hit and run’s to gain points. The remake is set in a prison and has almost the same with drivers going around a track in the prison for a television audience. The big bit missing is how you don’t gain points from running over innocents in the way of the race. Perhaps it was considered too dark for a modern popcorn flick but having Jason Statham in this movie is a huge bonus. Plus you have Lovejoy also in it.
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 This should be the last remake news for a while, we hope! This one should
be a no-brainer in terms of people’s reactions. What should be considered one
of the best movies of the last 100 years, Highlander is to be remade.
While the sequels and TV shows can be forgiven and in some cases considered
good having the original remade is a big mistake.
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 Sometimes remakes are announced which have come around so many
times they not shocking at all in their announcement but also in their content.
Flash Gordon, the almost century long franchise which has been remade
so many times it’s impossible to count will be remade yet again.
While the Sci-Fi channel has not yet announced if they are going to renew
or cancel their Flash television show currently running another version
has been announced.
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 Robocop is one of those great 80’s sci-fi movies. Even so it’s
yet another movie franchise with an upcoming remake announced.
This time it’s by MGM and although no time frame has been
announced for it’s release an expectation of about 2010 for a
new project would not be a surprise.
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To follow on the reimagined Bionic Woman television series it has now emerged what the new Knight Rider TV show car will be. You can now see what the Knight Industries 3000 will look like. It looks to be a show about the son of the Hoff.