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Danish 'Speak No Evil' director hits out at remake for rewriting "entire ending": “I don’t know what it is about Americans" (www.nme.com)
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The Danish director of the original Speak No Evil has hit out at the new remake for rewriting the “entire ending”, saying: “I don’t know what it is about Americans”.

Speak No Evil – which is an American remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name – was released in cinemas on September 13. Written and directed by James Watkins (The Woman In Black, Eden Lake), the film stars James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi and Scoot McNairy.

Now, the director of the original, Christian Tafdrup, has criticised the film’s remake for a number of significant changes.

The remake changes the nationalities of the families to British and American and Watkins has divided fans by completely changing the ending to the film.

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Either CEOs want something more focus grouped, or nepo babies behind the scenes need to add their own “flair” to it.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eh, I'd rather the remake makes some changes, otherwise what's the point of just doing the same thing again. Generally speaking the closer the remake is to the original the less value it adds. Sometimes these changes work and sometimes they don't but I'd rather they take a swing. Like Psycho or Funny Games or Oldboy or anything Disney has done in the last decade are exactly like the original and feel completely pointless. Even when they're done well like the Ikiru remake Living they just feel a little hollow.

All this being said, I think the most successful ones are where they have a completely new take from the ground up. Compare the new Planet of the Apes remakes to the 2001 Tim Burton one. The new ones go in a whole new direction and feel like they matter whereas the Burton one was a complete failure. Scarface and Oceans 11 also come to mind as successful remakes because the director got to put their on flair on the story.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 9 points 1 month ago

I feel like there's a difference between remakes of old movies and remakes of very recent movies that just weren't American

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Yes to both.