re: What Movie Do You Think Would Make The Most Disastrous Modern Remake?

Remaking any Mel Brooks movie would be so toothless today

Since Disney is on a kick remaking animated classics, I can imagine a new Song of the South. Or rather, I can't imagine just how much they'd brutalize it. But it'd probably win an Oscar

Someone said ET, I thought there had been some recent films that basically were ET remakes, just different titles.
Jaws- I think the sequels proved that you could only legitimately make Jaws once, but I'm sure it will return some day. Can't be worse than Jaws 3 etc.

On being a disaster- there are a lot of John Wayne movies out there, that work because of the Duke's iconic style. These are often rather simplistic, heroic tales, from an innocent age of film. I'm sure someone will remake one and try to make it "dark and edgy", and lose EVERYTHING that made the original appealing.