So, the other night I was enjoying a Charlton Heston evening. No, I wasn’t outside shooting at targets with an assortment of high powered weapons – I was watching Charlton Heston movies. Two movies in particular – The Omega Man and Soylent Green.

I enjoyed them both immensely, as I have many times before. Afterwards I reflected on the movies, and how much I enjoyed The Omega Man over Will Smith’s I Am Legend (even if, apparently, Will’s movie was closer to the book). That got me thinking about remakes – and a little angry when I recalled that Will Smith is going to remake The Karate Kid.

Angry, because I’m not convinced The Karate Kid needs a remake. But also because the movie studios can’t even do an original movie any more. Let me help them out a little – make a movie called The Kung Fu Kid. Similar plot, but have the kid learning Kung Fu, and get Jackie Chan to play the old master. There you go – that has winner written all over it.  And a little bit (very little) of originality. You can send the cheque directly to me.

So, an angry old man am I. But then I reflected on Soylent Green and figured everyone has seen of or know the ending to that movie, so no one would make a remake of it. That is one movie that no one will mess with.

And then I did a quick search and discovered IMDB lists a remake for 2012. I was very very sad.

Fortunately I also discovered it isn’t a remake – it is a sequel. So they figure everyone already knows the “secret”, so they’d just continue on after a bit of a recap.

So you, like I, can sleep easy tonight. Just don’t think about The Karate Kid remake.