They already remade Cinderella live action and it made tons of money, so that's probably what disney is doing, remaking all the princess movies as live films. I have a 3 year old daughter so I get this stuff all the time. They can slap tinkerbelle on any piece of crap and we will go see it cus it's something to do with her lol
There's a musical version called
The Slipper and the Rose, starring Richard Chamberlain. I found it online a couple of weeks ago and refreshed my memory about why I liked it.
Apparently it's because I still like the three songs I could sort of remember, plus...
Richard Chamberlain (I'm still trying to find a copy of his version of
Man in the Iron Mask).
And speaking of
Man in the Iron Mask, it took me several tries before I could tolerate the Leonardo DiCaprio version. Some movies just don't need to be remade.
But remaking Heston's
Ben Hur??
NO.
There is absolutely no need to remake this one. Yeah, I get that modern audiences mostly don't know who Charlton Heston was, other than a gun nut who didn't like talking apes. But modern audiences also don't seem to have the attention span it takes to watch that chariot race all the way through. That's one of my favorite movie scenes ever, and I don't even like horses.
Other movies on that list that don't need to be remade include:
The Crow: The only way this one could be improved on is if someone invents a time machine, goes back, and prevents the prop gun from killing Brandon Lee. They managed to do an adequate workaround, but I'd far rather the actor hadn't died from an on-set accident.
If anyone revisits the Crow franchise, it had better be to do a wrapup of the TV series. It is just so damned unfair that it ended the way it did. It had been renewed, then a bunch of deals among studios and production companies ended up with the show being owned by a company that decided to cancel it - not for lack of ratings, but because
they weren't into that sort of gothic fantasy. It's annoyed me for 16 years that I don't know how the second season was supposed to continue.
Cube: Why? There are already two sequels. The first one was claustrophobic and creepy, and while I realize it's pretty tame compared to a lot of psychological thriller movies, I found it plenty scary. And if anyone's interested, there's some decent
Cube fanfic on fanfiction.net.
Highlander: Yawn. I prefer the TV series. Yes, both of them.
Logan's Run: Nothing wrong with the original, but if it's remade it would be interesting to see one that actually follows the novel.
Short Circuit: Why remake something that was cute, funny, and enjoyable? Oh, right. Because nowadays there's more nudity and profanity allowed.
But I do have to snicker that Dune isn't on that list. Kevin J. Anderson was so sure a few years ago (as was Byron Merritt, who runs the official Dunenovels forum) that not only one Dune movie, but three, were going to be made soon (the plan was to break the first novel into three movies). It's also a bit off-putting, too - this is a huge part of the reason that a Spanish-language Dune fan film was issued a cease-and-desist order. So the people doing the fan film got C&D'd basically for nothing.
three new movies apparently), Ben-Hur, Creature from the Black Lagoon and (maybe) The Crow...
Chukchi 
