Would a studio remake Star Wars if they could?

Films
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A few of us were discussing earlier whether Star Wars was too good for studios to dare to remake it. While I felt a studio would love to I’ve struggled to find examples of truely great films that have been remade. Suggestions so far:

-Psycho
-Seven Samurii (remade as the western The Magnificent Seven which is apparently itself going to be remade soon)
-The Big Sleep

Any other suggestions of films that have been / will be remade which were done pretty much perfectly the first time? (We were overlooking the big comic book franchises as they seem to recycle themselves almost continually).

2

One could of course go with Lord of the Rings given this, but I think that that would be hard to describe as ‘perfect’.

3

There’s a list of remakes here. Some notable names include:

[list]
*]12 Angry Men
*]Clash of the Titans (lol)
*]Footloose
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But have a very quick scan though, pick of the bunch would probably have to be The Italian Job.

There’s not much evidence of truly great films being remade, though (thankfully…).

4

A few more films to put into the argument:

*[list]
*]Cape Fear
*]Scarface
*]Rear Window
*]Get Carter
*]King Kong
*]The Omen
*]Night of the Living Dead
]Dawn of the Dead
[/list]

As far as Cape Fear and Scarface go, I think that these days the remakes are more famous than the originals.

I think these were all pretty big / genre defining films although most have faded from public knowledge a bit with the passage of time.

5

Halloween was remade for no good reason.