It was announced last week that Colin Trevorrow will no longer direct Star Wars: Episode IX. In finding his replacement, Lucasfilm turned to a familiar face... J. J. Abrams:
J.J. Abrams, who launched a new era of Star Wars with The Force Awakens in 2015, is returning to complete the sequel trilogy as writer and director of Star Wars: Episode IX. Abrams will co-write the film with Chris Terrio. Star Wars: Episode IX will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Michelle Rejwan, Abrams, Bad Robot, and Lucasfilm.
The release date has been moved from May 24, 2019 to December 20, 2019.
Also at Entertainment Tonight. Here's another article about Trevorrow's firing.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday September 13 2017, @06:37PM
Not all remakes are bad, however. Compare and contrast 1951's The Thing from Another World and John Carpenter's 1982 remake The Thing. Then compare and contrast 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers with 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. With The Thing, the remake is superior. However, the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is not nearly as good as the original.
What are you talking about? The '78 version is better, especially with the pod-people having the creepy scream. But both those versions are really very good in their own right. The '90 version isn't so great.
However, while you point out inadvertently that remakes are are not a very recent phenomenon, I contend that 1) they're FAR more common now than in decades past, and 2) when they were done in the past, the results were usually good, as seen by your examples. (I can't think of many great counter-examples, other than the '90 version of Body Snatchers, and even that wasn't horrible.)