'The Orphanage' remake in the works

2007 remake? that's even faster than that hulk remake heh

Great film, the fact that Del Toro is doing the remake makes me somewhat hopeful. 

" Isn't the point of this to re-do it in English? "

" Great film, the fact that Del Toro is doing the remake makes me somewhat hopeful.  "

That was the last movie I've seen that seriously put me on edge. It wasn't exactly scary (besides a few jump scares here and there) but it was really a strange and emotionally disturbing film. I still wish the ending didn't suck so much though. Here's hoping they don't do anything crazy with it.

This film does not need a remake. Just watch the original spanish version. I really hate all these foreign film remakes just because a large portion of the american audience don't have the attention span to read subtitles. Rather sad actually. 

I am disgusted! The Orphanage is a beautiful movie that does not need a remake.

" And America is going to fuck it up like they did with Ju-On. "

I thought was made it creepy was that the kids were speaking Spanish, it just makes it that much more chilling.

This movie doesn't need a fucking remake!!!  The original was INCREDIBLE!!! 
 
I'm so so so so SOOOOO sick of Hollywood wanting to remake foreign language films with subtitles because Americans are too goddamn lazy to just READ THE FUCKING CAPTIONS!!!

Why the hell does hollywood have to ruin everything that is good that didn't come from America? The original movie is awesome, subtitles or no, it's fine. Leave it alone!

I'm disappointed in Del Toro. It kind of seems like he's selling out to the Americans so he could get their money.

" I'm disappointed in Del Toro. It kind of seems like he's selling out to the Americans so he could get their money. "

" @gordoa said:

" And America is going to fuck it up like they did with Ju-On. "

True dat. "

" @Fr0Br0 said:

" I'm disappointed in Del Toro. It kind of seems like he's selling out to the Americans so he could get their money. "

This as well!  Del Toro constantly pushed how proud he was of foreign language films like The Orphanage and Pan's Labyrinth being hailed in America...and now he's going to remake a movie due to, what I would assume, is mostly language issues?  Also...is it just me, or was Belen Rueda hot?! "

With today's technology, why remake a whole film just because people can't be bothered to read subtitles?  Start doing voice overs, and just CG the mouths to match the words when necessary.

@Osaladin said:

"Why the hell does hollywood have to ruin everything that is good that didn't come from America? The original movie is awesome, subtitles or no, it's fine. Leave it alone! "

So....They're re-making the movie for the lazy people that can't be fucked reading subtitles?
 
Hollywood loves taking great foreign films and turning them into trash and I doubt this will be any different, even if Del Toro is involved...

"How is Hollywood ruining anything? The original will still exist, will it not? Are you worried about a new audience seeing the remake and thinking less of the original, which they probably won't know about to begin with?  The Wicker Man film that was released in 1973 is still an excellent film despite the terrible remake that was released in 2006. "

Oh trust me, Hollywood will butcher the film. Has there been any foreign remake that's been any good? Or on par with the original?

That's not really good news, even though I have some minor faith in the project because of Del Toro, but it's really stupid that all these movies gets an American remake. [REC], Let The Right In, which someone else mensioned, and theres also a Danish movie, which is getting a remake, and that movie isn't that old either

" 2007 remake? that's even faster than that hulk remake heh "

The 2007 film was awesome, so I hope the remake does it justice.

"Both The Hulk and this movie are not remakes per se. The 2008 Hulk was a completely new take on the comic book character more akin to the Hulk TV series than anything. The Orphanage is simply an english-make. They are making the same movie except  with english actors. The same thing was done with The Ring, The Eye, and The Grudge all of which were originally japanese movies. In my opinion it is rather lazy of American film makers. They should be making a new movie not just buying the rights to a foriegn one. "

Well in my opinion I'm not saying that I think this movie will be better than the original but I do not think people should not be harshly judgemental of this remake saying how much hollywood will butcher it untill we'll see how good it'll shape up to be in a trailer of it.
 
 
*puts up a flame shield*

i can never take this film seriously, for one reason, as i was walking out of the cinema when i saw it, i heard someone say....... " you know you have gone crazy when you making flan for ghost's" 
 
i cried for  a good 5 mins lol

I like to think that when a film gets remade somewhere else (America isn't the only country to do this.  A lot of films in India, for example, are remakes of older concepts), that they bring attention to the originals.  Doesn't always work that way, but unfortunately a lot of domestic audiences won't even hear about the foreign versions of these things, either because of the language barrier or because the film didn't see wide distribution in the proper venues.  There are some films that manage to break directly through into big foreign markets, but they're definitely the exception.

why remake shit? i don't get it.

I watched the Spanish version. I was expecting horror, but got decent-thriller, meh.

" why remake shit? i don't get it. "

" @TheTerrifyer said:

" why remake shit? i don't get it. "

Neither do I, your post that is. "

" @FlamingHobo said:

" @TheTerrifyer said:

" why remake shit? i don't get it. "

Neither do I, your post that is. "

it makes perfect sense. the film is barely 3 years old, and compared to el laberinto del fauno its and piece of steaming dogshit. also, it'll be a complete failure.  just look at something like quarentine, remake of the spanish horror film rec. went completely under the radar. those two films had barely a year between them. and both were crap. "

GOOD! Maybe this time he'll make a fucking horror movie. My biggest problem with the original was that there were some genuinely creepy moments, but we get swept up into a whimsical fantasy by the end and it pretty much ruined the film for me.