Battle Royale remake - please, no!

[lexi]

Will someone please tell me that I'm hallucinating about the Battle Royale remake they've planned? Please? It's all a bad dream, in which nobody will be Americanising, toning down, and generally wrecking one of the best films ever?

WHY?

[Lordmoon]

This will be horrible! There is no way that they will use any actors that are remotley the age that their characters are supposed to be. I wouldn't be surprised if they cast Luke Perry as one of the 9th grade kids

Edit - Check out this bit of news that I found:

www.battleroyalefilm.net/

5/01/07
BR remake prospects "seriously shaken" by Virginia Tech slayings: The New York Times reported yesterday that the recent killings on the Virginia Tech campus has affected a number of horror/thrillers that are in the works, among them the Battle Royale remake. Another surprising revelation is that New Line has yet to complete the deal for the remake rights, something that many fans had assumed would have happened by now. Producer Roy Lee says in an interview that while he's still interested in moving forward with the production, a remake would have to be "a little more sensitive to the issues." He also feels that had BR been in production at the time of the killings, "we would have been slaughtered by the press."

Yeah, that remake is going to be great