Remakes of classic stories

[drakeborough]

Last August a controversial remake of Gottfredson's/De Maris' The Plumber's Helper was published on Topolino, and now the last Topolino published an equally controversial remake of Barks' A Christmas for Shacktown.

I hope this won't become a trend, since these stories were not that good (especially the former) and look even worse when compared to the originals. I also don't like when first encounters are rewritten, like in the first remake.

What do you think of the idea of creating remakes of classic stories?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Mar 23, 2017 19:11:19 GMT drakeborough said:

Last August a controversial remake of Gottfredson's/De Maris' The Plumber's Helper was published on Topolino, and now the last Topolino published an equally controversial remake of Barks' A Christmas for Shacktown.

I hope this won't become a trend, since these stories were not that good (especially the former) and look even worse when compared to the originals. I also don't like when first encounters are rewritten, like in the first remake.

What do you think of the idea of creating remakes of classic stories?

I don't think it's needed, maybe unless it's more of a 'midquel' sort of thing, remaining consistent with the original but showing other characters' perspective. Were those two recent remakes at least generally dialogue-accurate, or did they make large changes?

[sirtao]

Controversial?

that said: I don't like at all the latest remake and the previous got the FEELS right but was, like the latest one, absolutely superfluous

[iggy]

to me these two stories are great, as for the remakes who cares, if you like it read it if you dont forget it.
i actually find it amazing that there arent more remakes or variation on the subject, just try to make up a new disney story, it is practically impossible, everything has been done in many thousands of stories

[drakeborough]

Mar 23, 2017 19:17:48 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Were those two recent remakes at least generally dialogue-accurate, or did they make large changes?

They were shortened (30 pages each, with the usual Italian format of 3-tier) and modernized, with some changes in the plot.

Mar 23, 2017 19:39:21 GMT sirtao said:

Controversial?

Well, these stories generated some controversy among the fans.

Mar 23, 2017 19:50:40 GMT iggy said:

i actually find it amazing that there arent more remakes or variation on the subject, just try to make up a new disney story, it is practically impossible, everything has been done in many thousands of stories

Using a similar idea is one thing, purposely doing a remake and marketing it as such is onther thing.

[squeakyboots]

I see it as pointless because chances are it won't hold a candle to the original version which would make it an inferior product. I think stuff like the sequels Don Rosa did or the Bear Mountain story IDW printed a couple years ago were great but a remake? No thank you.

[drakeborough]

You know what a "comedy redub" or "gag dub" is? It's the practice (usually fanmade) of taking a film or tv series, removing the real dialogue, and replacing it with a redubbed dialogue while keeping the original images. Occasionally the practice can be applied to other media as well.

Why am I mentioning this? Because apparently Disney/Panini are not satisfied with just doing remakes of past stories, but also want to do comedy redubs of past stories, i.e. making up new silly/nonsense dialogues to replace the original dialogues while keeping the original art. The first "redubbed" story will be Scarpa's The Flying Scot (original title: "Paperino e la leggenda dello «scozzese volante»"), and the redub will be retitled "Paperino e la leggenda del canimarchese volante": "canimarchese" is a made up word, though it is similar to "danimarchese" ("Danish"), but I can't say if they purposely used a made up word for comedic effect (if there's any) or if the person who wrote the preview just made a typo (the letters "c" and "d" are near each other in a keyboard). The story will be published in the first issue of "Ridi Paperoga!" coming out next May (source).

I am afraid this remake mania is getting out of control.

[RobbK1]

There are so many new colourful, silly, hilarious or sinister characters to develop, to "fill" the city of Duckburg, to make it seem more "realistic", familiar, or better known to us, to seem more real (like the hundreds of well-known and liked characters in "The Simpsons". There are hundreds, if not thousands, of stories to add understanding and knowledge of Duckburg's history and Duck family's history, and see what's happening currently with Donald's distant and relatively close non-immediate family. I'd much rather write and draw and read about THOSE, than have a re-made story take up space in the new books. The only time I like remakes is when the original was drawn very poorly, or in a style I don't like (i.e. when Branca redrew a long Donald story originally drawn by Paul Murry, whose Ducks and backgrounds I don't like, or when Daan Jippes redrew Carl Barks' scripts in Barks' own style, which had been first been drawn poorly by Tony Strobl).