1997 Denise Richards and Dina Meyer absolutely mog any actress working right now. I'd say both of them are at least 9s.
Clearly there are scores of other reasons any remake is doomed, but that's the most obvious one. In the age of DEI, superhumanly attractive women are extinct.
There is probably some truth to that. An iconic piece of western culture in general so it must be immolated so they can replace it with their global vision.
Just look at what they did with Joker 2 because the wrong people liked the first one in the wrong way. We've got decades of that kind of spite writing ahead of us even after Trump won.