Return of Dad's Army

[Fenton]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10790918/Dads-Army-to-march-back-on-to-the-screen.html

[paulr]

I can see this going terribly wrong 

[Ace of Spades]

Hmmmmm.... mixed feelings...

[Techno]

Same feelings as Paul & Rob. 
Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

Personally I can't see it working for the generation of fans that grew up with it. A new generation may enjoy it...

[Ithoriel]

Good choices for Mainwaring and Wilson IMHO.

Interested to see what they do with it.

[Subedai]

It'll be interesting and no mistake. They both have a very tough act to follow but Nighy is great whatever I've seen -or heard- him in so he should be a hit. Toby Jones as Mainwairing...we'll see. I'll give it a go.

[howayman]

To me it was an ensemble, all the actors complemented each other. It will hard to put that together again even if they get the right story/script.
Interesting to see what happens.

[burnaby64]

To me it was an ensemble, all the actors complemented each other. It will hard to put that together again even if they get the right story/script.
Interesting to see what happens.

This is so true. It will be crucial to the success of this venture.....and I'm not holding my breath, sadly.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

May I be excused sir?

[mollinary]

I hope it works, but it will be very difficult - how do you stop it becoming an exercise in the new actors impersonating the old ones?   Good luck!

Mollinary

[marie]

tricky.....

[Leman]

If the Swiss ask you what arms to use don't tell them pike!

[fred.]

that caused an hour of silence....

[Hertsblue]

Why do they do it? Remakes rarely work if the original was definitive or too close in time to the remake. The fact that the original show still airs is not an advantage to my way of thinking.

[sebigboss79]

People know me as traditional but I urge you to trust me that NOT everything was better in the good old times.

I believe it would still be better if we had kept our hands off!

Remakes = cashing in from unsuspecting people instead of being creative.

[clibinarium]

Remakes have one major thing going for them (from the remaker's point of view), and that's widespread recognition of the concept. You don't have to explain Dad's Army to many people, they'll be familiar with it already, and hopefully that will encourage them to go and see it. So it seems to be less risky than doing something new.
That does nothing for the quality of what your making though. Usually you end up desecrating something beloved. There are very few remakes that improved on the originals.

If people would ditch the "recognition" factor what they should do is remake stuff that was bad the first time around. Not out and out awful un-saveable  stuff, but maybe movies that had interesting ideas that were executed ham-fistedly or were too ambitious for the budget they had, which would make good movies if given a bit more love or money.

[Luddite]

[paulr]

Well said that man

[sebigboss79]

+1