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Originally Posted by Usherette
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To be honest, he's the only person who really has a right to be raging about this because it's his work that could potentially be butchered so I can see why he might not be keen. I wouldn't much like if someone took something I made and decided they could do it better without my permission.
However... I posted about this at the Facebook group... Is it really that big a deal if this goes ahead? I mean it'll be crap, obviously... And generally remakes are a bit rubbish and I'd rather they left good things alone too. But all copies of the original won't suddenly disappear and original fans won't suffer brainwipe and forget all about it! The Singalonga issue posed a 'danger' to the film as they were going to have exclusive rights to the prints of the film - therefore if you were to see Rocky in the cinema it would have to be the Singalonga version. That's no good because aside from whole issue of Singalong entirely missing the point of audience participation at Rocky, it just took out the element of choice.
But this remake is unlikely to render the original obsolete (especially as it's being premiered on Sky - we're talking 'made for TV' here!).
If I may be so blunt, I find the idea of a petition against it absolutely ridiculous! Sorry if anyone here has signed it, I don't mean to be, well mean! But really... A petition against people re-making a film just because you like the original. I was on board with the whole "don't remake it, that'll be rubbish!" thing until someone sent me a message asking me to sign the petition...
Mind you, there's over 6000 people who disagree with me!
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