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How would you Reboot the Movie: The 5th Element

hawkwing43hawkwing43 Member Posts: 1,701 Arc User
edited June 2013 in Ten Forward
Ok lets just say you get the following:

1. A budget to do 3 movies in a series.

2. You can hire any writers and directors you need.

3. You get to pull from a list of top level actors.

What would you do with a reboot of the 5th element? Your not stuck with the same story, you can chance what you want, and the goal is to make this a 3 movie deal. If you can make the big bucks with #1 that is.

So what wouild you do?
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  • blafiblafi Member Posts: 68 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I wouldn't reboot anything.

    Reboots is what's keeping me from going to the cinema's nowadays. Want to make a movie? Try to be original. :).
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  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Not use Chris Tucker. Funny character but technical necessity for the time and reboot = ditch.

    Movie 1 = Prequel about the elemental warrior (so to speak) in a previous incarnation and set up for reboot
    Movie 2 = Reboot
    Movie 3 = Ultimate fight between "love" and "hate" in the universe where everybody loses against a surprise assault from "ambivalence".

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  • voxinvictusvoxinvictus Member Posts: 261
    edited May 2013
    The 5th element is an amazing movie. I wouldn't want to reboot or remake it.

    Gary Oldman as Zorg is amazing. Same for Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod. Even the guy who tries to rob Bruce Willis is hilarious.

    Some movies are perfect the first time. They didn't need to remake the Great Gatsby or the Wizard of Oz either.

    If you want to redo a sci fi movie (especially as a 3 movie franchise) remake Dune. There still hasn't been a decent movie made from maybe the greatest sci fi book of all time.
  • idronaidrona Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Big Bada Boom

    I still love the original though. :)
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    As above, there's no need to remake the Fifth Element, and it would be a remake, not a reboot. Some films should just be left as they are. Ironically, I want to remake La Dolce Vita... :o
  • ricorosebudricorosebud Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuamSKIvhcA

    Love it.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It was a little corny in places but it wasn't meant to be a serious sci-fi epic. I love it as-is, and Lee-loo WOO-HOO !!
    :D:):D
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuamSKIvhcA

    Love it.

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  • nylsianylsia Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I would have three times as many Lee-loos.
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited May 2013
    Ya, the original is so damn good, I don't think a reboot could do it justice.

    However, I wouldn't mind "The Continuing Adventures of Corbin & Leeloo Dallas" though.
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  • crypticarmsmancrypticarmsman Member Posts: 4,115 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Ya, the original is so damn good, I don't think a reboot could do it justice.

    ^^^^
    that's my take As well. There's no need for a reboot/remake of this one (and I have a feeling it would turn out as bad as say Tim Burton's god-awful remake of the classic "Planet of the Apes" <--- And there's another example of a film the really didn't need a remake as the original holds up just fine.)
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  • elessymelessym Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It was a fun movie, but there was barely enough story for five minutes, let alone a trilogy.
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  • azntrigboiazntrigboi Member Posts: 139 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    What about the Adventures of Ruby Rhod? :D
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It was so close to perfect as a movie that even the glaring holes in the plot just slide by. (Seriously, Leeloo, the "supreme being", is scanning an encyclopedia, and isn't stopped by our tendency toward violence until she hits "war"? What about "assault", "murder", "****", and all the countless other atrocities that come earlier in the alphabet? But somehow, when I'm watching, that just sort of flies past me...)
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  • zeuxidemus001zeuxidemus001 Member Posts: 3,357 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It gives a giant sign when movie making companies go and completely copy older movies and hire a new cast to do the same exact thing with no originality and call it a new movie. I say enough with these reboots. If I wanted to watch the same movie differently I'd just pop in the dvd and watch it upside down and get the same thing these reboots offer lol.
  • dukedom01dukedom01 Member Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    multipass?
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  • scruffyvulcanscruffyvulcan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I'd do a continuation with the same cast. I'd have the same amount of time pass in the movie that passed in real life and possibly add some "new generation" characters, but there's no way I'd reboot it. That movie still holds up today, in terms of effects, pacing, and story.

    I'd go the TOS movie-route and just continue.
  • kain9primekain9prime Member Posts: 739 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Introduce...








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    ...a 6th element.
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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I love That's a Nice Hat bit, i always laugh at that part, even though I have seen multiple times.

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  • tilarium1979tilarium1979 Member Posts: 567 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I can't stand remakes and reboots. Hollywood needs to grew the F* up and start making some original movies again instead of remaking movies and turning old TV shows into movies.
  • janusforbearejanusforbeare Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    ...am I the only person on these forums who thought it was godawful? :confused:
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  • kiriseekirisee Member Posts: 446 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I wouldn't reboot the movie since i thought it was awful....i say let it lay in a peaceful slumber where it belongs....
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  • skiffy1skiffy1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    tacofangs wrote: »
    Ya, the original is so damn good, I don't think a reboot could do it justice.

    However, I wouldn't mind "The Continuing Adventures of Corbin & Leeloo Dallas" though.

    A new series entitled "Multi-Pass" perhaps?
  • tacofangstacofangs Member Posts: 2,951 Cryptic Developer
    edited May 2013
    skiffy1 wrote: »
    A new series entitled "Multi-Pass" perhaps?

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  • gfreeman98gfreeman98 Member Posts: 1,201 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I agree with those saying to leave it alone. All the "reboots" and "re-imaginings" just point to the lack of creativity and courage in today's Hollywood.

    The Fifth Element is not the greatest movie of all time or anything, but it had a quirky appeal and it was just a fun, not taking itself too seriously, movie. It stands up to repeated viewings.
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  • lincolninspacelincolninspace Member Posts: 1,843 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I thought somebody already did: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/?ref_=sr_3 or wasnt italready a remake of this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102070/?ref_=sr_1
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    lincolninspace wrote: »
    I thought somebody already did: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/?ref_=sr_3 or wasnt italready a remake of this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102070/?ref_=sr_1
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  • chokopop1chokopop1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    janusforbeare wrote: »
    ...am I the only person on these forums who thought it was godawful? :confused:

    Nah, I'm with you. I think it's a terrible movie.

    Which means (To keep on par with the thread), I wouldn't try to reboot it.
  • tpolebreakertpolebreaker Member Posts: 266 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    It was a great movie. Loved it at the time, and think it's still underappreciated.

    No reboot. No remake.

    Changes to the original? Some more backstory - fleshing out of the universe, though you'd have to cut other bits because it was so packed with everything. In fact, iirc the original release of the movie which I saw in theatres in 97 was much shorter than the now listed runtime of 127 minutes (it was more like 90ish, but that was years and years ago.)

    Sequel/spinoff? For sure. The Adventures of Leeloo and Ruby Rhod is a go. (Right up there with the Not So Continuing Shadowy Adventures of Londo and G'Kar spinoff...)
    gfreeman98 wrote: »
    I agree with those saying to leave it alone. All the "reboots" and "re-imaginings" just point to the lack of creativity and courage in today's Hollywood.

    The Fifth Element is not the greatest movie of all time or anything, but it had a quirky appeal and it was just a fun, not taking itself too seriously, movie. It stands up to repeated viewings.

    Totally agree with all your thought there... and not just because I saw JJTrek2 the other night... must... rinse.. brain...
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  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I think it's perfect as it is. I wouldn't trust a reboot of such a beloved movie.
  • lazarus51166lazarus51166 Member Posts: 646 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Reboots are what writers and directors do when they aren't intelligent enough to come up with their own ideas
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