Happy Independence Day ! There are many reason to observe America . And then , there ’s our tendency to borrow other people ’s stuff . Sometimes when Americans remake strange properties , it wrench out okay , like Let Me In . But often … not . Here are the twelve big endeavor to refashion alien TV appearance and films .
notice : Some of these actually got made , while others just got as far as concept art or whatever . In all of these cases , though , there ’s at least something for us to look at and shake up our heads , woefully . Why , America , why ?
1) Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf is a beloved British Science Fiction drollery that has run , on and off , for more than 20 old age . Ten years into the show ’s run , someone at NBC decided that an American remake would be a capital idea . They were wrong . There were some spoilt decisiveness : Picking an all - blank cast in place of a excellently multi - racial one was something that even the castmembers found unsatisfying . Another trouble was that the chief character , Lister , usually ascertain as an lovely slovenly person , was written as a clean - track quality instead . give thanks good this remaking did n’t get past the pilot stage .
2) The Tomorrow People
The seventies British show about teens with psychic powers looks incredibly goofy now , but had a sure arc to it back in the day . Sadly , the remaking that just aired on the CW captured the goofiness , but not so much the spark . The plot of land became more and more convoluted , and the simple premiss of “ malevolent organization hunts variation ” got snarl up in itself . This made us beaming the U.S. remake of Misfits looks like DOA .
3) Life on Mars
Sexier and with more star power , the well - financed remake of this U.K. show was fit to be a sure smash . alas , the U.S. version could n’t sustain the elegance of the British show ’s premiss ( a present - day fuzz gets reach on the caput and viewing up in 1973 ) over a full 22 - installment season . uncollectible yet , Harvey Keitel became a cuddly version of Gene Hunt , with none of Philip Glenister ’s harsh edge . And do n’t get us started on that ending .
4) Akira
This remake is the Schrödinger ’s cat of movies . It seems to be forever in a Department of State of uncertainty . Asrecentlyas February 2014 , there were rumour that it was still conk forward , even though directors keep exiting the project . The remaking is to take place in “ New Manhattan , ” and the film will basically Westernize a work of Japanese ne plus ultra . George Takeicame outagainst range non - Asians in this movie , say that it would violate both Asians and fan of the original . And whilesomeof theconcept artlookspretty , it still leave us feeling as though we dodged a smoke .
5) Doctor Who
Okay , so the made - for - Americans TV picture with Paul McGann was not the Doctor ’s first foray into Americanization . Back in the eighties a Doctor Who cartoon was being farm for CBS by the Canadian company Nelvana , the makers of Care Bears and the animated bits of the Star Wars Holiday Special . Not much is known about it , except that K-9 would have hover , and the Doctor ’s comrade would have been the first lightlessness ( albeit animated ) companion in Doctor Who history . There ’s now tons of graphics floating around from this stillborn show , in which the Doctor count like a mark between Tom Baker and Egon from The Real Ghostbusters .
6) Dragonball: Evolution
Dragonball is a much love manga series and an even more popular anime . So obviously any Hollywood adaptation of the serial would be thrifty to do it justice . Right ? Nope ! Goku is play by Justin Chatwin , because white Americans need heroes that look like them . Or at least that ’s what the studio apartment think . Meanwhile , James Marsters can barely move inside his Lord Piccolo costume , and the whole patch is dumbed down to squish into a 90 minute movie .
7) Godzilla
No , not the late Gareth Edwards film , the 1998 Roland Emmerich version . This film is just a braggart dazed mess . If you look back at the original Godzilla film , you will see motion-picture show that were both full of menace and warmness — and more significantly something to say about the horrors of nuclear warfare . But all this 1998 film did was sell cups for Taco Bell . Godzilla 1998 was everything that is awry with summertime blockbusters of the mid - to - late ’ 90s . It trust heavily on intersection arrangement and grown names , as the studio bank on the name recognition of “ Godzilla , ” without give the interview much substance in recurrence . It was a box seat power hit but a failure with the critic . Luckily , the new remake head in the proper direction .
8) Quarantine
Quarantine was an all right motion-picture show . It had a few good scares , but that was about all it was good for . Rec , the original Spanish version , on the other hand had a realism and a terrifyingly claustrophobic atmosphere to it that the remaking just did n’t ( or could n’t ) replicate . On top of that , American audiences , according the studios , need their leads to not only be blank , but also notable . So instead of nuanced execution by thespian who cared more about persist true to the character ( like the comparative unknowns in Rec ) , we scram Jennifer Carpenter , who rode the world ’s foresightful and most frenzied emotional roller coaster throughout the moving-picture show . The American version also chose to ignore any sort or spiritual undertones , in favor of the more straightforward - forward A-one strain of rabies which take away pretty much all of the subtext and closed book beleaguer the nausea that envelopes the building the poor characters are trapped in .
9) Vanilla Sky
The Spanish original open air Your Eyes is a well - write and absolutely - act movie , that is both haunting and think provoking . The U.S. remake , starring Tom Cruise , on the other hand , is a very pretty flick . Unfortunately , the Cameron Crowe - directed remaking is mercurial at best , and downright puzzling at its worst . Both pretty much tell the same storey — but the original manages a invoke feelings , where the remake simply call forth WTFs .
10) The I.T. Crowd
This one was in the bag . NBC had govern up an intact season of this U.S. remake of the British show about a company ’s technical school - support department . give thanks goodness , it got pull at the last moment so Joel McHale could go on to star in another geek - season situation comedy . The unaired airplane pilot is pretty much a shot - for - stroke remaking of the U.K pilot . Which did n’t quite render too well — if you keep an eye on thepilotit ’s downright cringe inducing . One ca n’t help oneself but miss Chris O’Dowd ’s cordial everyman when compared to the caustic remark - lace snipe of McHale . Who was right smart better off roleplay Jeff Winger .
11) Pulse
While this list could be only made up of American remaking of J - Horror films , this one might be the worst . Over - the - top acting , zero nuance , and inexpensive impact were some of the many shortcoming of this remaking . The Nipponese version , Kairo , follows a radical of university scholarly person who are looking into a mysterious webcam . The webcam , which promises the power to talk to dead the great unwashed , is somehow connected to a series of suicides . The American version is fundamentally about a haunted wireless local area web signaling . This might be slightly more exciting than a obsessed toaster oven , but not much .
12) Cowboy Bebop
This movie has been long simmering with not much news , outdoors of Keanu Reeves being temporarily attached to the role of Spike . ( He saidthat he is way too old for the part now , plus the handwriting as he saw it would cost half a billion clam . ) Hopefully the studios will con and dial down the ‘ splosions and ramp up the tale telling . Director of the anime Bebop Shinichirō Watanabe toldComic Book Movielast yr , “ There is a project underway in America for a resilient - action version of Cowboy Bebop . But the details are a arcanum do I ’m afraid I ca n’t talk about that … Cowboy Bebop was influenced a heap by American cinema so I ’m interested to see how America will turn that into a live - action movie . I go for they ’ll be able-bodied to keep the feeling of the animated Cowboy Bebop . ” Or better yet , maybe it ’ll just stay in development .
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