Quoting djskyler:

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My mind reels when I ponder how modern Hollywood will rewrite these lines to promote their politically correct agenda:

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I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works. I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.

Except that the quote you used is how modern Hollywood rewrote the original lines to promote their politically correct agenda. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was adapted from a short story in the Oct., 1940 issue of Asounding Stories, "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates. Bates tell Klaatu's story from Cliff Sutherland's (a "picture reporter" -- TV reporter) point of view. In it, Klaatu is killed, and the giant robot (named Gnut in the story, not Gort) has resurrected Klaatu (into a temporary second Klaatu, based on an imperfect voice recording of the original). The second Klaatu has died. Gnut demands the recording device which made the audio recording of the first Klaatu, to examine the device, discover the imperfections, in order to resurrect a longer-living Klaatu. I think you'll find the original ending much more 1990s than 1940 (or 1950s when the film was made).

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The next two hours always in Cliff's memory had a dreamlike quality. It was as if that mysterious laboratory with the peacefully sleeping dead man was the real and central part of his life, and his scene with the noisy men with whom he talked a gross and barbaric interlude. He stood not far from the ramp. He told only part of his story. He was believed. He waited quietly while all the pressure which the highest officials in the land could exert was directed toward obtaining for him the apparatus the robot had demanded.

When it arrived, he carried it to the floor of the little vestibule behind the port. Gnut was there, as if waiting. In his arms he held the slender body of the second Klaatu. Tenderly he passed him out to Cliff, who took him without a word, as if all this had been arranged. It seemed to be the parting.

Of all the things Cliff had wanted to say to Klaatu, one remained imperatively present in his mind. Now, as the green metal robot stood framed in the great green ship, he seized his chance.

"Gnut," he said earnestly, holding carefully the limp body in his arms, "you must do one thing for me. Listen carefully. I want you to tell your master — the master yet to come — that what happened to the first Klaatu was an accident, for which all Earth is immeasurably sorry. Will you do that?"

"I have known it," the robot answered gently.

"But will you promise to tell your master — just those words — as soon as he is arrived?"

"You misunderstand," said Gnut, still gently, and quietly spoke four more words. As Cliff heard them a mist passed over his eyes and his body went numb.

As he recovered and his eyes came back to focus he saw the great ship disappear. It just suddenly was not there anymore. He fell back a step or two. In his ears, like great bells, rang Gnut's last words. Never, never was he to disclose them til the day he came to die.

"You misunderstand," the mighty robot had said. "I am the master."

I was watching G4 yesterday, and on their "Feed" they said that some producer of the tv show 'The Shield" is going to make "a film-noir version of Enter the Dragon."

Quoting widescreenforever:

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I hope they never redo 2001: A Space Odyssey ..

I heard something a few years back about Kubrick having a contractual nix on any of his materials being redone.  But, I am not sure the validity of that.  That would have to be a mighty ambitious director to tackle Kubrick anyway..........

(From the "Oh My God, Not ANOTHER One" department)

Remake in Store for FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Source: Variety
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Another remake on the way for Hollywood.  I don't have anything bad to say against director Roland Emmerich, I guess it's more a question of why I'm writing every other article having to deal with a remake...Whatever the case, Variety is reporting that director Emmerich will be remaking the 1966 sci-fi film, FANTASTIC VOYAGE, for 20th Century Fox.

Plot Summary: The story centers on  a scientist who is dying of a blood clot. His only chance for survival is for five scientist colleagues to be miniaturized in a ship, and injected into his bloodstream.

Legendary genre actors Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence (Halloween, Escape From New York) starred in the original version...Emmerich is a very well known director.  He did score big with Fox with Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and he just completed a Warner Bros pic titled 10,000 B.C which will hit theaters March 7, 2008.