Déjà vu All Over Again

What's up with all the remakes lately? Is there no creativity left in Hollywood? I understand 3:10 to Yuma is an excellent movie, maybe even an Oscar contender. But it's still a remake.

Dark Horizons is reporting that a High Noon remake is in the works. I have no idea who will be cast in the Gary Cooper role, but my money is on Naomi Watts for the Grace Kelly part. Why? Because she seems to be in every friggin' remake lately.

I have nothing against her, per see. She's a lovely actress. But I thought she was badly miscast in Peter Jackson's King Kong (that role called for an ingenue, hello!), and now I hear she's slated to star in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds . This is an outrage, I tells ya. What's next? Rear Window? Psycho? Oh, yeah.

Here are a few more remakes on the way:

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly)
C.H.U.D. (directed by Rob Zombie)
Grease (lets hope Jessica Simpson is just a rumor)
Escape from New York (Kurt Russell is Snake Plissken)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro--this could be great!)
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (Denzel and Travolta)
Barbarella (Robert Rodriguez)
I Am Legend (Omega Man)