I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.
While producing a remake, one is sure of the success that it will have as the project has been tried and tested earlier.
When doing a remake, you're on safer territory. You know you cannot go absolutely wrong. But how right it goes depends on various factors like casting and the way you adapt the film.
We are pleased to have acquired remake rights of 'Comali' for all languages in the world.
I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.
You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.
What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
I have not met a Filipino actor who didn't dream of working on an 'FPJ' remake.
