No Idea's Original: What Movies You Should Expect To Be Remade Next

From summer blockbusters to genre cult classics and foreign films, Hollywood has never seen a movie that it wouldn't desecrate with a remake in the pursuit of moviegoers' cash. No matter how awful they are—and often, cast with teen-friendly actors, forced into a 3D format, and stripped of the soul that made the source material great, they are dreadful—ignorant young audiences and curious, nostalgic older fans still pay overpriced admission for the dreck.

This week, Hollywood gives us not one but two highly-anticipated remakes. For fantasy and action fans, there's a reimagining of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1982 classic Conan The Barbarian, now starring Jason Momoa as the titular revenge-driven warrior, Rachel Nichols as his ass-kicking love interest, and Rose McGowan as a sadistic witch with some disturbing daddy issues. Moviegoers who enjoy a good scare with a good laugh get Colin Farrell starring as a badass bloodsucker in director Craig Gillespie's reworking of the 1985 vampire horror-comedy Fright Night. (Horror remakes are often the worst of the worst, but occasionally, as with this commendably fun flick, they actually get it right.)

Oh, but it don't stop after that. In the next 12 months, remakes of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 revenge pic Straw Dogs, the 1984 Kevin Bacon-starring teen dance flick Footloose, and another Schwarzenegger classic, 1990's Total Recall, are all slated to hit theaters. With so many flicks being revisited—some rather randomly—Complex analyzes the remake trends to predict what movies you should expect to be remade next, and just how studios will flip them up to appeal to younger audiences.

What's one remake of a 1985 vampire horror-comedy when you could have two? On the heels of Fright Night, about a teenager who suspects his neighbor is a vampire, expect to see Once Bitten, the story of a sexy vampire Countess (Lauren Hutton) who tries to suck on a wifed-up high school virgin (Jim Carrey) three times to avoid aging and looking like the old corpse hag she is. Our choice to play the virgin, whose bite wounds cause him to act all kinds of Count Dracula lunatic? James Franco. In and out of art galleries, that dude always exhibits strange behavior.

Never heard of Straw Dogs, Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller about a mild-mannered American mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) who gets ultraviolent on some English thugs in the countryside after they harass and attack him and rape his wife (Susan George)? Well, surely you're familiar with 1974's vigilante classic Death Wish, in which Charles Bronson plays a New York City architect who becomes a one-man killing machine when street toughs (like the ever-fierce Jeff Goldblum) murder his wife and rape his daughter. Seeing some similarities? It's a safe bet you will—in your local multiplex.

Turn that title into a hashtag and replace Bronson's trademark squint with Taylor Lautner's and you've got a bonafide revenge hit for tweens! Though, now that we think about it, ol' Charlie might have to rise from the grave to kill somebody for such a vile criminal offense. Fingers crossed.

Based on legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”, director Paul Verhoeven's 1990 action-adventure blockbuster Total Recall stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a dissatisfied construction worker who attempts to have memories of an awesome Martian vacation implanted in his brain, only to react violently before the procedure and discover that he may actually be a Martian freedom fighter whose memories were erased. Pretty trippy—did we mention that Dick used a lot of drugs?

WIth Total Recall being remade with Colin Farrell in the lead, it makes perfect sense to redo another of Dick's many tales adapted/drastically altered by Hollywood. Of these, you can't do any better than Ridley Scott's 1982 gem Blade Runner, which is based quite loosely on Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In the original film, Harrison Ford plays an ex cop tasked with tracking down and "retiring" robot replicants of humans that have caught feelings and escaped from bondage. In a dramatic shift from all the sugary shit he's been shoveling, we see pretty Zac Efron bringing in young lady dollars as the hunter after the rogue humanoids, who falls for robot Katy Perry. Her personality is definitely better than his Sybian’s. That EXTREME enough for you, kids?

Teen dance movies are all the rage these days, but none of them can compare to the original badass boogie, 1984's Footloose, starring Kevin Bacon as an aggro-dancing city boy who moves to a small religious town where hip-shaking and rock music have been banned by a conservative city council. The idea is getting a bit of an update with director Craig Brewer's (Hustle And Flow, Black Snake Moan) coming remake, set in a world where white Southern kids can love rap as much as they love line dancing.

Country flavor is cool but you know what the kids really love: anything "urban." Just writing the word is kinda scary and thrilling! 1984's Breakin' got at the heart of this sensation with a story about an unsuccessful white jazz dancer (Lucinda Dickey) who meets two decidedly, um, urban break-dancers and creates a crazy hybrid of the forms that makes them all the shiznit. For the remake, we're picturing wild child of the streets Jaden Smith teaching a ballerina, played by the preciously white Elle Fanning, how to add a little concrete jungle boogie to her échappés and changements. Sound a little too much like 2001's Save The Last Dance, starring Julia Stiles as a ballerina in the hood? Seriously, since when do kids know anything older than the last five minutes of their Twitter timeline?