The problem is Hollywood is too scared to risk new ideas so use tried and tested popular movies and remake them till the end of time.
No, the problem is they keep remaking the wrong movies. Total Recall, Robocop, Poltergeist, all big iconic movies with either great status or cult followings.
Look at the next Mad Max movies. Look at Dredd. True Grit. Oceans Eleven. King Kong. Or even go back to the era of these movies and look at some of the other films. The Fly, The Thing, Scarface, Little Shop of Horrors.
These movies, at least the source materials of these movies, did not have much if any sway when they were remade. They were either incredibly old films, or they were remakes of bad films who never succeeded in the first place.
It seems the answer is to not remake movies people like, but instead remake movies most people don't care about anymore. Movies whose potentials have left them and can be molded into much better films with a re-imagining behind them.
At the very least, it'd remove the skeptic-hype or legacy-hype that these movies have, needing to be compared to their original counterparts with every single shot and scene.
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