Steven Spielberg refused to remake JAWS.

GeekTyrant noticed this, buried in a story about Amblin Entertainment partnering with Netflix:

One area the director will not revisit is Jaws. Deadline heard recently that Universal broached the subject to reboot Spielberg’s breakout classic, with Spielberg producing, and the answer was a firm no.

…Personally, I might have preferred that Spielberg had responded to such a highly impertinent question by dangling the unlucky Universal suit over a shark tank, but that would have been unethical. After all, you don’t blame the messenger for the message. Life is not a Conan movie. And JAWS should not be remade.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t actually want to see a Spielberg Conan movie. I want to see a Guy Ritchie Conan movie, set in Conan’s thief days.

4 thoughts on “Steven Spielberg refused to remake JAWS.”

  1. For all his flaws (mainly deciding to f*ck Madonna), Ritchie is 5 out of 6 for directing enjoyable films I’ve seen, with King Arthur being the only stinker.
    Lock/Stock, Snatch Both Sherlocks and UNCLE were all fun.

  2. Considering what we already know of the original production and its PTSD-inducing difficulties *alone*, I don’t blame him.

    But yes; you don’t remake a movie like that, for all the reasons.

  3. About the only Conan story I could see Spielberg pulling off is Tower of the Elephant.
    Other than that, he’s certain to screw them up worse than the ending of A.I.

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