Aladar2004
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- Aug 31, 2004
Here comes another remake.
http://screenrant.com/petes-dragon-remake-casting-michael-c-hall-wes-bentley/
http://screenrant.com/petes-dragon-remake-casting-michael-c-hall-wes-bentley/
And in much the same way Disney ruined Miss Hannigan in "Annie", I'm willing to bet my house that Lampie isn't a drunk in this reboot.I love Pete's Dragon. I've enjoyed many reboots of classic movies. But this one I am not looking forward to. No Lampie or Nora? No light house, Doc Terminus, or Gogins? No MUSIC?!? My heart aches.
She was a drunk on Broadway, too, I believe. The idea was that the story takes place during the Great Depression (I guess kids wouldn't get the Herbert Hoover reference, so they pulled the song from the film) and Prohibition. I'm sure some local stage productions have chosen to leave the gin out of their shows, though.For the record, Miss Hannigan was only a drunk in the first movie. I've never seen her played that way in the many productions of the stage version I've seen. And I actually find her more terrifying sober. Her drunkenness is just one of many reasons I can't stand the original version of Annie.
But back to the topic at hand. I love Pete's Dragon. Oh, I get that it's campy and cheesy, but I love it anyway. Take away the music, and I'm out. The songs are the best part of the original for Pete's Dragon's sake!
Actually adult Pete gives me a lot of hope that this IS a sequel and not a true reboot. I mean other than Pete and Elliot not one other character shares a name with a character from the previous movie. Heck none of the character descriptions even sound similar. I mean take Grace who is a park ranger instead of being Nora the teacher. While many professions such as lighthouse keeper and fake medicine salesman are out of date (and child slave trader probably a bit too uncomfortable for today's society for a family film), being a school teacher is still very much a profession today. So why the change? Now think about the end of the original Pete's Dragon...Elliot tells Pete that he needs to leave to help more unfortunate children.When I watched the original Pete's Dragon I really enjoyed the story and the songs. The little boy that played Pete was great as was Mickey Rooney as Lampie. I don't think I'll like this remake that much with no Lampie and an adult Pete.
Bryce Dallas Howard already confirmed that the movie will take place in the early 80s in an interviewIt probably will need to be in the 21ist century and with a different child.
Bryce Dallas Howard said:“The movie takes place in the early 80s and so for me that’s when I grew up, I was born in the early 80s, and so it felt so much kind of like those classic 80s movies that you love about kids doing extraordinary things and going on adventures and kind of teaching the adults in their life just how to be a child again.