More bad news on ‘Day the Earth Stood Still’ ?

I’ve already basically written off the remake of ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ as a failure (I’ll let you know for sure once I’ve seen it), with Keanu Reeves starring and the fact that it’s a remake of a classic well-made sci-fi film to boot. After seeing the first trailer, I’m that much more confident that the movie will fall on its face. Now, thanks to Ain’t It Cool News, we get a “possible” glimpse of the new Gort … or, well … the robot formerly known as Gort. Apparently, in early script reviews by AICN, Gort was no longer being called Gort. What? Bastards! To make matters worse, they came across a concept sketch of one of the possible “Gort” redesigns and it rather disappointing. Of course, we can’t know for sure if this is the actual design used, but considering it came from the website of concept artist Lorin Wood (who’s working on the film), it does give us an idea of what they’re toying with … failure, in my opinion.