hy bother coming up with new ideas for movies when you can just remake ones that are already successful. It's s much easier and you don't have to worry about egos and personal visions getting in the way. Just throw some money at a filmmaker, buy him a DVD of the original and tell him to "make it better." It's simple and it's guaranteed money in the bank. Who needs artistic integrity when you've got a guaranteed blockbuster ready to go? Look at all the examples of studios pulling this trick today alone.

Darren Aronofsky To Remake Robocop

A few years ago, Darren Aronofsky seemed primed to become one of those most interesting American filmmakers of his generation. He burst onto the seen with a 16mm no-budget gem bursting with creativity and energy (Pi) and followed it up with an award-winning drug movie that achieved instant cult status (Requiem For A Dream). But then he spent six years struggling to produce The Fountain, a philosophical sci-fi epic that eventually made it to the screen with half it's intended budget and was a bit of a mess. By the time critics finished washing their hands with the movie, Aronofsky had transformed from a wonderboy to a burn out. He clearly felt the need to reestablish himself as a more commercial director (I can't imagine those six years off were very lucrative).