Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: Sept. 28, 2008
Paul Newman’s passing is clearly the biggest story of the week, although Disney also had plenty of announcements about upcoming productions, most of which are sequels (Cars 2, Pirates of the Caribbean 4, National Treasure 3). Seth Rogen’s The Green Hornet got a major boost with the involvement of Stephen Chow, meanwhile new trailers for W. and The Spirit got a lot of people talking. Did I mention that they’re remaking Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? Yeah, I don’t get it either.
Top Headlines
R.I.P. Paul Newman
Cars 2 Coming in 2011
Johnny Depp Signs on for Pirates 4 and The Lone Ranger
Stephen Chow to Direct The Green Hornet
Hancock Sequel in the Works?
Inglorious Bastards Script Review
Colore Non Vedenti Video Diary #1
New Trailers
W.
The Spirit
Revolutionary Road
Notorious
Waltz with Bashir
Some Stories We Didn’t Cover
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Getting a Remake
MGM and Weinsteins End Distribution Agreement
Spielberg Options Sci-Fi Novel Chocky
Spielberg and Jackson Lose Tintin Funding
Matt Reeves to Direct Let The Right One In Remake
Guillermo Del Toro to Write Trilogy of Vampire Books
Alex Gibney to Produce Base Jumping Documentary
Rachel McAdams Signs on as Sherlock Holmes Love Interest
Mortensen and Cronenberg Team Up for Another Movie
American Psycho: The Musical
Michael Winterbottom to Direct The Shock Doctrine
Comments (8)
They really are scraping the bottom of the barrel for remakes aren’t they? With Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Short Circuit?
I mean, I like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, but it’s not exactly a classic. I guess the storyline could be adapted to a new time/place/actors etc. but it just seems like someone somewhere is running out of ideas. Next we’re gonna hear about an Arthur remake and a Weekend at Bernie’s remake …
Posted by Joel on September 28th, 2008“Weekend at Bernie’s remake …”
Didn’t Greg say that…cause I think that’s why it has been rattling around in my subconscious. Caught some of it on Cinemax or something and considered how I’d remake it (not that I’d want to).
You’re right Joel they will soon enough be remaking forgettable films.
Also its crazy that Spielberg/Jackson can’t get funding (I thought they had carte blanche for life). It must be true that Spielberg wanted an obscene amount of backend or else I don’t know what else would deny him.
The Mortensen/Cronenberg thing makes me happy (I love A History of Violence). It would be cool if Cronenberg went sci-fi/horror again.
Also, why do they keep making musicals of stuff that the built in audience for probably don’t even like musicals (like Evil Dead)?
Posted by Ryan M. on September 28th, 2008man…remaking dirty rotten scoundrels…3 words…FUCK…THE…PLANET…just rerelease the fucking movie, its so fucking great…dammit!!!!
Posted by Bob the Slob on September 28th, 2008I would love to see the Evil Dead musical on the silver screen. I’ve wanted to see it on stage but never had the chance to do so.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a funny film, damn funny. One of Steve Martin’s best flicks and it got Emperor Palpatine in it as well.
Posted by swarez on September 28th, 2008I have decided that I am all for remakes of everything. I get a bigger kick out of the whining that comes with the announcements of remakes.
Posted by Captain N on September 28th, 2008Since my other comment got eaten by the spam filter, all the ‘remake haters’ should note that Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is actually a remake of the Marlon Brando & David Niven starring film Bedtime Story.
It’s also worth noting that THE BROTHERS BLOOM is made in the same spirit of this film.
Posted by kurt on September 28th, 2008Round 3 with Cronenberg and Mortensen! i am pretty excited for that!!
Posted by cronenfly on September 28th, 2008Joel, an Arthur remake was considered (it may even still be), and the role of Arthur was offered to Ricky Gervais, who turned it down. In his words: “I said ‘no’ straight-away. Why would I mess with a perfect comedy? They know people don’t watch films that have the wrong font — it’s got an ’80s font.’”
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