In the eyes of a fan like yourself, they're taking the only possible route to improving on the original film: they're adding to it.

"The Name of the Rose" began life as a sprawling and complex novel by acclaimed author and professor Umberto Eco. But since you say "remaking," I presume you're referring to the 1986 film adaptation, featuring Sean Connery and a young Christian Slater.

The new adaptation, which is indeed being made as we speak, is a TV miniseries. That means that what it will add is a lot more of the backstory and religious-political subplotting that was dropped in order to turn a dense, 500-page novel into a two-hour movie.

The scripts were reportedly supervised by Eco himself (prior to his death in 2016), which is further evidence this will stay truer to the book.

Eco was generally OK with the film but lamented the cuts that needed to be made. "A book like this is a club sandwich, with turkey, salami, tomato, cheese, lettuce," the master of literary imagery said in a 2011 interview with the Guardian newspaper. "And the movie is obliged to choose only the lettuce or the cheese, eliminating everything else."

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