From "The Little Mermaid" To "Tom And Jerry", 8 Legendary Movies To Be Remade Soon

Ever since their childhood, a lot of 90s kids’ lives have stuck with the movies on Cartoon Network or Disney Channel. As those films stand a great influence and a significant part of their upbringing, the fans hold huge expectations towards the future plans for them. Being aware of this, studios have been constantly remaking their works for the past few years.

After a series of remakes that have reaped certain successes, such as Aladdin, The Lion King, Cinderella, The Jungle Book…, here is a list of 8 more interesting movies whose reboots are highly anticipated by the viewers worldwide.

8. The Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia once created a major storm around the globe when it hit the big screens, delivering a mysterious and fantastic land of magical creatures. Three parts of the film about the war in Narnia left the audiences a lot of emotions along with regrets when the series ended.

Realizing great expectations and longing of the fans, Netflix decided to bring the Aslan lion and the land of Narnia back again. The film's screenwriter of the film this time will be Matthew Aldrich, who has garnered big success with Pixar's Coco.

7. The Little Mermaid

One of Disney's greatest animated films to be remade is The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey as the red-haired mermaid princess. Disney received a lot of controversies when deciding this actress to take on the role of Ariel.

It is said that the actress looked far from similar to the original character. However, that did not diminish the audience's expectations for the movie, even raised their curiosity with the new creation of the adolescent mermaid.

6. The Lord of the Rings

The journey of the Hobbit man in The Lord of the Rings series is still an irreplaceable monument in the movie town. That is the reason why every single year, the prequel parts of the film are constantly being made.

In addition to the movie The Tolkien which tells about the birth of The Lord of the Rings books, viewers will be able to witness a new storyline produced by Netflix, following the journey of the members in The Fellowship of the Ring.

5. Lady and the Tramp

Disney Studios decided to make a remake of Lady and the Tramp with CGI technology as in The Lion King. Fans were truly delighted when the passionate love drama will return with Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux lending their voices to the characters.

There will surely be a lot of people looking forward to the romantic meal scene in the candlelight being relived. That particular part has got lots of hearts sobbing and fluttering.

4. Home Alone

Rumors of Ryan Reynolds making an appearance in the Home Alone project have eventually come true. The Deadpool actor will join the movie production, and he will also take on the main role of this ever famous movie. The film will tell the story of a middle-aged man who has drug problems trying to set traps to chase the two thieves out of his home.

Hearing the spinal plot of the upcoming movie, we all have a feeling that this was alluding to Macaulay Culkin who played Home Alone as a child. Regrettably, when he grew up he had serious problems with drugs and therefore, lost his career.

3. Mulan

Mulan is the latest live-action movie of Disney next year, which tells the story of the legendary Chinese warrior who impersonated a man to replace her father’s place on the battlefield. Considered one of the best animated works in 1998, the story of the brave girl will be brought back to the big screen in 2020. Beautiful actress Liu Yifei will take on the lead role of this film, promises a work full of Chinese martial arts.

There are also speculations that the remake will not include the mayhem-loving, humorous dragon Mushu or captain Li Shang as in the animated film. The live-action is expected to be made with quite many new changes.

2. Matrix

The Wachowski sisters have begun to participate in developing the new part of the Matrix franchise. The fictional series that makes up the success of Keanu Reeves will officially have a new part. Most likely, Keanu will also return to the role of Neo. In this section, the film will continue to exploit the blind side of the matrix system after 16 years of absence.

This will be the most anticipated blockbuster because the world of codes is still very interesting in the eyes of viewers. Also, the new factor of the film has been confirmed to be Michael B. Jordan, who played Killmonger in Black Panther of Marvel Studios.

1. Tom and Jerry

The real blockbuster of 2021 that Warner Bros will bring back to the screen is Tom and Jerry. The live-action version of this cult animated movie is extremely anticipated by fans. Especially when the movie still retains the traditional style of the animated version when not letting the characters say any sentence in the movie. Instead, there will be the fun chasing scenes of this natural enemy duo.

As much as how loved and cherished we are to all of these iconic movies, it is obvious that we hope the new versions will bring about a unique yet original breeze and meet our expectations. One way or another, they are one part that holds the immense value to every childhood of ours.