Listen…girl…chile…sirs and ma’ams, did yall watch that episode of Teen Wolf. I have literally been rendered so unable I can’t even give yall a proper recap of “The Girl Who Knew Too Much.” So instead I’m just gonna leave y’all with some incoherent thoughts put in a bulleted list.
The process of remaking something isn’t new, but it seems that today reboots and remakes have been dominating the film industry at an incredibly high degree. Whether it the superhero reboots that come out within five years of each other or the endless slew of classic horror films that get remade, Hollywood has really banked a significant portion of it’s business on them. So what are some things that make these remakes and reboots successful? I took a gander at the film landscape and came up with some Dos and Dont’s for having a successful remake.