Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25052433-20150919183325/@comment-5614678-20150925230440

When you're talking about remakes, there's multiple ways you can do it.

You can try to be exactly like the original shot-for-shot style, with a few moments omitted or change for good measure, but the basic premise and broad plotline still intact: a character study about a 14 year old who gets bullied, disfigured and eventually kills his parents and starts killing people like crazy.

Or you could go the "Scarface" route and keep the general spirit and narrative of the story, but do completely different things with it all, turn the story completely on it's head.

Or you could write a totally different story entirely and just call it "Jeff the Killer." Which is probably the worst idea, amazingly.