Posted by Tony Pendrey on January 21, 2002 at 16:34:43:

In Reply to: REMAKES posted by RON S. on January 09, 2002 at 12:29:55:

When 1984 was written it was the future.

It is now the past - For a huge majority of the film-going public it is history.

The first thing that a film producer would insist on would be to re-title it "2084".