Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
1988's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a classic comedy starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin as two con men who had made a rather despicable wager. The two were trying to fleece an heiress out of her money, and whoever lost the bet had to skip town, but while the film was a success the story was hardly original. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was actually a remake of a 1964 film called Bedtime Story, which starred Marlon Brando.
MGM is currently updating the movie again with women in the lead instead. The new pic, Nasty Women, will star Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as the two despicable scammers. If Nasty Women manages to bring back the whole cultured crook versus crass con artist angle, then it's not difficult to guess who will play who.
Overboard
Released in 1987, Garry Marshall's Overboard may have divided critics, but it eventually won the hearts of comedy fans across the world. Starring the legendary couple of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, the film focused on a spoiled
heiress who fell off a yacht and woke up in a hospital with amnesia. Through a series of hijinks, her carpenter tricked her into thinking she was his wife and hillbilly hell broke out.
Flash forward three decades, and Overboard is being remade with Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez in the lead roles, but this time there's a little twist: the roles will be flipped, with Derbez playing a selfish playboy from a wealthy Mexican family who loses his memory after taking a tumble off a boat, while Faris will be a single mom who fools Derbez into thinking he's her husband.
The Thomas Crown Affair
Coming off films like Creed and Fruitvale Station, there's no denying Michael B. Jordan is one of the most exciting actors working today. Now, he'll be following in Steve McQueen's footsteps with another adaptation of The Thomas
Crown Affair. The original 1968 film followed a wealthy businessman who orchestrated a nearly perfect bank robbery, but eventually an insurance investigator began to suspect Crown of pulling off the heist. Sparks eventually flew between them and the two leads had to grapple with both their emotions and millions of dollars as they tried to outwit one another.
The film was already remade with some success with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo as the co-leads, but what's really impressive is that this new version is all Michael B. Jordan's idea. Jordan reportedly pitched MGM on the idea for a remake himself and landed the title role as a result.
The Raid: Redemption
One of the craziest action movies in recent memory, The Raid: Redemption followed a SWAT team trying to nab a notorious crime lord, but most of the movie was made up of fantastic fight scenes as the team battles their way up a heavily-guarded high-rise apartment building. However, while the original Raid is a martial arts extravaganza, director Joe Carnahan plans on getting grittier with his upcoming remake. The director of films like Narc and The Grey, Carnahan is teaming up with actor Frank Grillo to create a film he says will feel like a feature-length version of the knife fight scene in Saving Private Ryan.
Death Wish
The quintessential revenge flick, Michael Winner's Death Wish saw a pacifist-turned-killer declare war on New York criminals after a gang of thugs murdered his wife and raped his daughter. While the film stirred up quite a bit of controversy back in the day, Death Wish was financially successful enough to spawn several sequels.
Now, over 40 years later, MGM has decided to remake the dirty and gritty thriller and possibly start a new series. Only this time, Bruce Willis will be playing the part of Paul Kersey instead of Charles Bronson, and Eli Roth will step behind the camera for the flick. According to Roth, we can expect to see Hostel-style torture scenes with "spectacular set pieces" on this remake, so get ready to lose your appetite.
An American Werewolf in London
An American Werewolf in London is the quintessential lycanthrope flick. So, Universal's upcoming remake has some pretty big pawprints to fill. David Alpert and Robert Kirkman of The Walking Dead fame are set to produce the new American Werewolf, bringing some serious horror cred to the project.
Meanwhile, Universal is keeping things in the family on the filmmaking side. Hoping to recapture the black magic of the original, the studio has brought out Max Landis, the son of the original's writer and director, John Landis', to pen the screenplay and helm the film. So, hopefully, this won't be just another bad moon movie on the rise.