I'm also looking forward to seeing the re-make, mostly because I think they've updated it, and put together a damn good cast.
Sometimes I love em (re-makes that it) sometimes they blow it, and sometimes I can't for the life of me figure out why they bothered in the first place.
Starsky and Hutch? Puleese! It was a mediocre TV show in the first place. Examples like this is more about a dearth of creativity these years, and trying to make a buck off of someone else's ideas.
The remakes I've liked? "A Star is Born" with Judy, not the later version with Babs. Also "Prisoner of Zenda", both the Ronald Colman and Stewart Granger versions, (and I would have loved to have seen the original). Also "King Solomon's Mines", with Granger again, not the later version with Richard Chamberlain.
I do agree that different versions of plays and films should and will be re-thought, and re-cast. But sometimes, there is a definitive version (at least for me) that should NOT be f*cked with.
Examples? "A Streetcar Named Desire" "The Philadelphia Story" (up for a re-make so I hear..grrr) "Gone With The Wind" (why bother? it will never be matched)