Number 5 is Alive -- Again!

Blasphemy!

If Johnny 5 ends up being CG, I will take my own life.

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I hate Hollywood. The people behind movies such as these are soulless demons. demons I tell you.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is next. And aren't they already working on The Goonies 2? I really hate Hollywood.

But you're wrong about Short Circuit 2. Johnny 5 has a freakin' mohawk. There's no words to describe that awesomeness.

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The worst thing about this post is that I wouldn't be surprised if one or all of the movies listed at the end were currently being considered for remakes. Why not just rerelease the originals on the big screen? It would be cheaper than shooting a brand new movie, and I'd rather see the originals.

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I would be fine if they decided to make a Short Circuit 3, but to remake it...eh..no thanks.

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Wow... to get paid for writing a stort and then re-writing it.

It's like getting paid to do your draft, and then paid again when you book goes to No #1 (only I can't see this going up that far.)

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Yeah they already remade Short Circuit. It was called I, Robot.

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Isn't Karate Kid already being worked on with Will Smith, one of his kids, and Jackie Chan? Anyway, I loved SC when I was a a kid, and SC2 as well (I cried when Johnny "died"). These days, I think the first one is still pretty good, but the second is pretty naff. But my memories of them sustain me through the crud and unintentionally hilarious bits. And Fisher Stevens was the reason for a whole generation of bad Indian accents in my school.

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"Last I checked, we didn't have sentient robots who could be your pal!"

No, but Toyota has one that can play a violin!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZS16IxC8k

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Fisher Stevens....now that is awesome, put a white guy in "brown face" and tell him to do a terrible accent. Was a person of Indian decent (I think that is what they were going for) too hard to find. Or were the producers saying, "Well, we could hire an ethnicity for the part but we got FISHER STEVENS!!"
Also, let's not forget Guttenburg in the first one...what mediocre 80s movie wasn't he in?

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Please make it stop. I really hate reliving the 80's! I really think that you and every other entertainment writer out there has their homes tapped. How else is Hollywood getting these horrible ideas? LOL

I agree, re-release the originals, so at least we can relive the magic we remember instead of scarring us further with painful remakes.

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If it has Steve Guttenberg in it than I say make it happen!

In fact, I would apply that statement to any film and in the scenes where he isn't featured the rest of the cast should be asking "Where's Steve Guttenberg?".

While we are at it let's make another Police Academy movie.

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Of course it will be all CGI, and our robot friend will be able to defy all laws of physics, like R2-D2 flying around in the Star Wars prequels.

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Don't forget Wargames too, that's on the way.

@rex, funnily enough i was thinking the same thing this morning when i heard the news. Although 'Police Academy 8: Hightower Takes Manhattan' actually sounds quite appealing...

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Sequel in the works for:
Goonies? Yup
Gremlins? Pretty Sure
Karate Kid? Yup

Big Trouble in Little China? Now that is one I kinda wanna see. Get Zack Snyder to shoot it all green-screen and make the Three Storms represent right-wing...oh, never mind.

The reason they make sequels is because younger kids today don't know who the president was in 1998...what do they care if they make all these old movies that thirty-year-olds-and-over cry about?
I remember as a kid, there were no movies worth watching that were twenty years old. (Unless I wanted to watch big, crappy musicals or really deep crime and police dramas from the sixties...)
So, yes, all of our great beloved movies will be re-made(mostly awfully) and they will be relegated to status well below the originals. Get over it, go on ebay and buy a vcr and buy all the old VHS tapes from Amazon and watch, lovingly, all those movies you hold in such high esteem as the tracking goes all out of whack. (I mean, really, JOhhny 5? You care that much if that piece of cinematic pap gets remade? Wow...)
When people want to waste money on making remakes, let them. Some I might watch...
Damn, CG re-interpretations of the three storms...
Zack Snyder!!!! Kurt Russell in a cameo...I'd buy that for a dollar...(or does that bother you that I co-opted that phrase for my comment...too bad...)

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Johnny 5 would be pretty cool to see again. If it is made well. Plus over in Japan they have robots that are even smarter then Johnny. Some look really life like. Kind of scary too.

Also do you know some thing we don't. Because Goonies, Gremlins & The Karate Kid have been hinted too that they will be remade or get a sequel. So does that mean Big Trouble in Little China will join that list too?

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Yeah this reboot/prequel/4 sequel we dont need after 10 years bullshit NEEDS TO STOP.

I wish the writers strike was still on so they wouldn't sit around dreaming up new ways to rape my childhood memories.

Short Ciruit and its sequel were pretty good. Cant we just leave it at that and...i dunno, write an original god damned movie?

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I completely agree with you, I'm also too damn young to see everything remade. It's creepy! Make it stop!
What's next, the live action version of popples? *shiver*

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Well first off, to the editor; You are a bad Short Circuit fan! Go and watch it again! You'll be surprised at how well it holds up. Except for No. 5 jumping around after a grasshopper, it's still really good, and has some perverted adult jokes, you may have missed... heh, it's pretty funny actually, even by today's standards.

Seriously though, I agree with what you're saying though. A remake is a TERRIBLE idea, but a Short Circuit 3 on the other hand, I WOULD LOVE to see that. Even if it sucks, it doesn't really damage the integrity of the original. Just like Short Circuit 2 sucked, but we can just kind of ignore it. A remake of anything though, somehow ruins or undermines what the original managed to accomplish. I think you're right to make a big deal about it, we have a chance at a proper sequel here. They're close what we want, just not quite there yet. Meh, what the heck, I'll post up something I posted on a similar article.

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First, the quick answer. NO! to the remake, and YES PLEASE!!! to Short Circuit 3. (But I admit a high quality remake could be better than a crappy direct to DVD sequel as someone pointed out.)

Seriously, this is not what the fans want! Short Circuit is my favorite movie, and I have openly proclaimed this to my friends for a long time now. How can you get more endearing then the original Short Circuit!? Sure you’ll make a lot of money, but with Short Circuit 3, you’ll probably make even more, AND have a chance that the film will be remembered as a classic quality entry into the franchise, or another way to look at it; a big apology for Short Circuit 2! LOL, yeah hopefully someone gets some good original ideas, and scraps the remake in favor of a new story. I want a new adventure. Maybe No. 5 (or Johnny if you insist) goes to college, does something ingenious, and falls in love or something, I don’t know. Something meaningful, but with some tasteful humor. (I don’t want constant retardation, and forced jokes like Short Circuit 2… though the bit at the end with Bonnie Tyler blasting is a guilty pleasure. :) )

We need to contact the filmmakers, because it seems almost unanimous that we want a sequel, not a remake. If they want to use more advanced tech, just give Johnny a big upgrade, but retain his basic look and personality… seriously, I’m not so fanatical, that I couldn’t handle a bit of a change, I just don’t want them messing with the original story. Nothing will top the first movie, so just try to co-exist with it as a sequel. As far as Sheedy/Guttenburg/Stevens goes, I hope any or all of them return if it’s a sequel. Well, I guess I’ll cut it off there. Peace, and I hope something cool happens for Short Circuit and it’s fans. (Anyone out there hear what I’m puttin’ down?)

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