(rated by how unoriginal the 'new' ending is...)
1. Planet of the Apes
Classic Ending:
It turns out the hippies were right. That terrible planet of the apes was our planet all along and we blew it up to make way for the apes to evolve and take over.
Remake: Planet of the Apes (2001)
Ending Change: Mark Wahlberg lands at the steps of a monkey-lincoln. Wow that's some intense stuff...wait a minute that doesn't make any sense at all! The movie is about time traveling apes that coincidentally created their own identical Washington D.C. ?
2. The Omega Man
Classic ending: Charelton Heston dies in a blaze of automatic gunfire curing the plague victims
Remake: I AM LEGEND
Ending Change:
Theatrical release: Will Smith blows himself up and a bunch of vampire-plague survivors with a grenade and a latino woman and optimistic little boy hide in an oven and bring the cure to a refuge city north of Manhattan...even though the film shows all bridges connected to Manhattan destroyed and the tunnels are clogged with both traffic and water.
The DVD has two separate endings. The directors cut is considered controversial by the studio but illustrates the point of the title of the film...Will Smith is the biological deviant/boogey-man who haunts and murders the plague victims indiscriminately.
3. ??????
I don't think there is currently a 3rd Charelton Heston film waiting to be remade. My suggestions though would be first with Soylent Green.
It's going to be tricky to come up with a unique ending. Everyone knows what makes soylent green taste so good. I think today's audience would be shocked only if the other colored soylents were made of their former pets. What I always wanted to know about the world of Soylent Green is why does soylent blue, red and yellow taste so bad. But people flavored soylent is delicious?
That answers that question the meat and texture of people is so much more tasty than plankton and algae paste (the main ingredients of the other colored soylents).
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