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  • Call me crazy but...JAWS would be a perfect mini series

    If they mined Benchley's novel, and reinstated things like Hoopers affair with Mrs Brody...

    The pacing lends itself perfectly to a limited cable or streaming series, as sacrilegious as that sounds

    I've been waiting for this boot to drop for a few years now. It can only be a matter of time.

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    I'm not buying female Quint, although female Hooper could be interesting! One of them's losing their wedding tackle, that's for sure.
    I'm bitter, I'm twisted, James Joyce is fucking my sister.

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    • #3
      I wasn't saying to gender bend the cast, just mining the soapier elements of the source novel would fit the limited series format. This would also ramp up nicely to a couple last eps of shark action.

      Kinda surprised a remake hasn't taken this form by now seeing as Hollywood loves to mine known IPs, lol.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by JonesyTheCat View Post
        I wasn't saying to gender bend the cast
        I know, but they would! This would probably turn out like Peter Benchley's The Beast.
        I'm bitter, I'm twisted, James Joyce is fucking my sister.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by JonesyTheCat View Post
          I wasn't saying to gender bend the cast, just mining the soapier elements of the source novel would fit the limited series format. This would also ramp up nicely to a couple last eps of shark action.

          Kinda surprised a remake hasn't taken this form by now seeing as Hollywood loves to mine known IPs, lol.
          I think Jaws is on the level of Psycho, nobody wants to touch it due to the reverence the Spielberg film is held in, but eventually someone will decide they need to bring it to a new generation by remaking it.

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          • #6
            I'm sure I would watch it but I still wouldn't approve. The raison d'etre of Jaws are the shark hunting sequences. You can't really do better than what was done so better to do something else.

            I always think it's better to remake something that didn't work. I would love to see a television version of Jaws inspired The Ghost And The Darkness. Amazing story- two lions inexplicably start killing dozens of people, in the process halting the British railroad building across the continent and it's one man's job to hunt them- but the film sucked. The true tale of what happened deserves better. A tv version could be amazing.
            "Never let the fact that they are doing it wrong stop you from doing it right." Hyman Mandell.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dom D View Post
              I'm sure I would watch it but I still wouldn't approve. The raison d'etre of Jaws are the shark hunting sequences. You can't really do better than what was done so better to do something else.

              I always think it's better to remake something that didn't work. I would love to see a television version of Jaws inspired The Ghost And The Darkness. Amazing story- two lions inexplicably start killing dozens of people, in the process halting the British railroad building across the continent and it's one man's job to hunt them- but the film sucked. The true tale of what happened deserves better. A tv version could be amazing.
              I fully agree. Still surprising they haven't tried to "improve" on it, especially regarding the shark sequences. GHOST AND THE LION is ripe for a redux, agree there as well.

              Admittedly, I was happily surprised by THE EXORCIST tv show.

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              • #8
                Maybe we will see a Bollywood version some day.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Darcy Parker View Post
                  Maybe we will see a Bollywood version some day.
                  It exists, and it is glorious. 1996's Aatank.

                  Rock! Shock! Pop!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post

                    It exists, and it is glorious. 1996's Aatank.

                    If the shark sings, I am so in.

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                    • #11
                      Wouldn't the Orca capsize when they start dancing?
                      I'm bitter, I'm twisted, James Joyce is fucking my sister.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by agent999 View Post
                        Wouldn't the Orca capsize when they start dancing?
                        The bow goes up when they do the "praying hands over the head" move.

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                        • #13
                          I have Atank but have not watched it yet. Maybe today is the day!

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