Re your post about Maleficent, have you seen the new Maleficent with Angelina Jolie? I think it does a fair job of turning the story around.
It was an interesting film, but IMO differed too much from what had been established in the earlier animation. AJ played a character with the same name and appearance, but who was a different person from a different story. The original Maleficent wasn’t a goody-two-shoes and (YMMV) it was her stylish dedication to being Wicked that made her so memorable.
Unfortunately when things are remade (the list is a long one) there seems to be an almost perverse determination either to clog up what makes the original popular enough to justify a remake in the first place (“The Man from UNCLE” with its unnecessary back-stories), or stick so slavishly close to an original whose cast and storytelling got it right first time that a remake should have been pointless (“Dad’s Army”).
I’m waiting for some bright spark in a suit to suggest a remake of “Jaws“ with lots more CGI shark, even though it was the lack of on-screen sharkthat made it work. Each member of the audience who saw that film was in the position of imagining the unseen threat as their own Most Scary Shark, giving themselves a more personal fright than the best effects ever could.
Also, two of the three principal cast are dead - now it can be done, will Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw be CGI’d as well? But can the CGI replicate their talent as easily as their appearance?
It’s possible there was an early draft of “Maleficent” closer to my imagined version, which was abandoned as too much of a clone of the original, or too dark for the intended audience, or (add excuse here - “not right” covers most things…) :-)
