Possibly?

For the Crunch movie, they could get James Marsters or John Barrowman as part of Crunch's crew.

"Crunchitize me, Cap'n!"

John Barrowman as part of Crunch's crew.

I would see that movie on opening night.

So many remakes! That never happened before, and nothing good can ever come of it. No one ever made a movie or TV show or song off a spuriously slight initial concept and just ran with some shit and ended up with anything entertaining--before it used to be hours and hours of research and collation and correlation before an idea was even raised.

I hate newfangled everything. Everything sucks.

I saw that Lionsgate (I think) is remaking Rebecca. THERE IS NO NEED FOR THIS. I don't get it.

I KNOW! I totally want to grab Hollywood by its lapels and shout, "Have an idea!"

I see at least one Hollywood movie in the theatre a month. Call me a slut without discretion, but I enjoy at least half of those, and I know that there are movies I don't see in the cinema that were worth watching too.

Let's not talk about the amount of TV I enjoy. Or that Shakespeare used other people's ideas. Flat out: the amount of fiction I find to consume and enjoy is not insufficient in any way in 2012. So I don't care.

If someone makes a really good Rebecca movie, then great! I hope plenty of people enjoy and appreciate both making and watching it.

I guess I'm a husk like Sean. rosenbaum doesn't hit my buttons.

A new version of Rebecca certainly won't tarnish the old one, but there are so many new books out there that could be adapted, and screenwriters writing original scripts, I can't see the point in remaking something that was done nearly perfectly the first time around. It's a great story, but there are a lot of those if you know where to look.

And it's not to say that I won't see a remake, because curiosity alone would demand it. I watched the remake of Psycho, but that seems like a great case in point -- it was supposed to be almost identical shot for shot, unless I'm remembering wrong, but it was in color. And the point of that was ...?

I know what you mean. But sometimes they work out...Ocean's Eleven, for instance.

And the point of that was ...?

The Psycho remake was a thought experiment - an experimental film masquerading as a commercial remake. (Which is to say, it was never meant to be viewed in isolation. It only makes sense in relation to the original.)