You may have heard about the Indiana Jones fan remake that took more than 30 years to complete and spawned a documentary, as it’s been in the SXSW news recently.
Fan films are not a new phenomenon, whether it’s a famous director getting a chance to mount his own vision of his favorite film from his childhood, or create a shot for shot remake. Or to add another meta-layer, another famous director can come in and combine the the source and the remake to create a whole new level of fan film. There have even been movies about fans making movies, whether from a deep sense of nostalgia or a general love of movies. On a much smaller budget, fans have even created crowdsourced tributes to their favorite movies.
If you had a chance to recreate a favorite movie (either shot-for-shot, crowdsourced, or whatever), what would it be?
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I rather turn the Harry Potter books into seven seasons of TV-show, so we can ignore the movies.
And I want to rewrite John Wick and Kingsman after gender-swapping all the main character(s).
That could be amazing! But there is only one Snape.
One of my favorite series is the Back to the Future trilogy, and, while I would absolutely NOT attempt a Marty McFly-style story, I think the concept of going back thirty years and seeing your parents is a cool one. Perhaps reboot it to take place in 2015, with a similar storyline, but change the character names (a’la Karate Kid)? That way omage could be paid withut causing diheards like me to go into an uproar. :P