I'm going to say this one more time - no, I'm sure I'll have to say it a million more times.
THIS IS NOT A REMAKE. There is a book that the original movie was based on that this movie is also based on. That makes this another adaptation of the novel, not a remake of the film. In fact, the deal for this film was signed before the first film was even finished.
While I enjoyed the first film, I felt that it lost much of the best parts of the novel. I'm hoping we get some of that back here, dropping some of the threads (like the boy's dad) that never went anywhere in the first flick anyway. I see a lot more of that here, like the school fire and even the morse code, that looks like this stays very true to the book. The first movie did as well, but the simple fact of the matter is that a novel has far too much content to have it all contained within a single film. What thread gets followed and which ones fall out is the job of the screen writer - and it's a tricky one, that's for sure.
