Rashomon remake????

Well, this can’t be good news:

Los Angeles-based Harbor Light Entertainment and Tokyo-based Lotus have assembled an international consortium to remake helmer Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic “Rashomon.”

Action will be moved from ancient Japan to contempo America, where a court must decide the facts about the rape of a woman and the murder of her husband.

Harbor Light and Lotus will be joined by L.A.’s Lexicon Filmed Entertainment and Singapore’s Upside Down Entertainment on the English-language project, “Rashomon 2010.”

Are they kidding? Moving it to the United States in the year 2010 is not a remake; it’s a rip-off of the story concept. You can’t take Rashomon (1950) out of Japan and the time era in which the story was set and call it a remake. That’s just flat-out b.s.

Didn’t they learn from Psycho (1998), which actually was a remake, shot scene by scene as it was originally scripted?

PLEASE LEAVE CLASSIC MOVIES ALONE!!!

This plea has been brought to you by pissed-off movie lovers everywhere.