Like Young Sherlock Holmes?!?
stupidest remake yet...Miss Marple, the hot babe!
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Like Young Sherlock Holmes?!?
She should, but she won't. No tight fitting outfit, no ticket sales. Or ratings, or whatever.
Shocker: studios are in business to make money, by producing things that lots of people will watch.
If she's hot enough, I might even watch this.
If she's hot enough, I might even watch this.
But... Dennis...
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=139092
Clearly nothing bad or shocking about it. I mean, it's just that the studios are in business to make money, isn't it?
It could happen.
I saw the original Face, Dirk Benedict play Columbo on stage last year.
Okay, I'm usually pretty open to revisionist takes on classic characters, but this one has me scratching my head?
Unlike, say, Sherlock Holmes or James Bond, Miss Marple's whole gimmick is that she's an old British lady. That's what distinguishes her from other detectives.
It's like doing IRONSIDE without the wheelchair . . . .
Unlike, say, Sherlock Holmes or James Bond, Miss Marple's whole gimmick is that she's an old British lady. That's what distinguishes her from other detectives.
It's like doing IRONSIDE without the wheelchair . . . .
or she could fight aliens, and be the US answer to The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Good point, I don't get what the fuss is about Akira. Which just goes to show that people who don't know the source material don't care if you wreck it, and most people don't know any given source material, so Hollywood can wreck everything and get away with it. They could have made the Star Trek reboot with a cast of dancing Wookies wearing purple tutus, and most people would have been okay with it as long as there were enough splosions per square inch.
I have to admit, I don't actually give a flip about Miss Marple, either. I just thought the comments were hysterical. Anne Frank, heh...
I'm used to weird ideas coming out of Hollywood, but this has to be the wrongest thing I've ever heard! I like Jennifer Garner a lot, but I just can't see anyway this will work outside of it just being a generic femal detective who happens to be called Miss Marple...will the name really add that much box office to that, really?
I've just finished reading Transitions by Ian Banks and he makes a point that the reason for things like that isn't because the execs lack imagination, its because they have too much imagination and so can imagine all the different ways a new idea could bomb, so they slap something recongisable onto it to prevent this happening...
On a side note I can confirm that Poirot is actually going to be played by 50 Cent...
I've just finished reading Transitions by Ian Banks and he makes a point that the reason for things like that isn't because the execs lack imagination, its because they have too much imagination and so can imagine all the different ways a new idea could bomb, so they slap something recongisable onto it to prevent this happening...
On a side note I can confirm that Poirot is actually going to be played by 50 Cent...
Of course, but that doesn't make it suck any less.
So this is the story of how she goes from hot babe to crusty, waspish spinster -- unrequited love for Sherlock Holmes, or will she be a lesbian?
Well, don't buy a ticket. No problem.
Yeah, obviously, this is not a big deal, but I'm pretty sure individuals have choices beyond consuming or not consuming. Spending money is not the only kind of interaction we can have with art. We can discuss it, we can feel passionate about it, we can be outraged when we feel it's not as good as it should be, or uplifted when it's better than it has any right to be. It's not just a matter of "buying a ticket" or not. Oh come on, you know that. Why are we having that conversation?
There’s a Miss Marple series currently running on British TV, as well as an earlier one from the 1980s. And there were four Miss Marple movies starring Margaret Rutherford.What makes you say they are remaking a British show? They are basing a film on a younger version of a classic literary character, British TV has nothing to do with this.Ehh..what?
Isnt the whole point of Miss Marple that there is an old lady solving crimes..I mean, thats the charm of the show, right?!?
Why they they even have to remake and sex-up these British shows when the orginals are usually as good as they get
My wife pointed out that in The Murder at the Vicarage, it's revealed that when Miss Marple was young, she fell in love with a married man who was going to leave his wife for her, but he wound up getting killed in WWI.
I wonder if that will play into the plot of this movie in some way.
I wonder if that will play into the plot of this movie in some way.
considering Hollywood can't even get history straight (U-571 for a PRIME example), why is anyone even shocked by this?
i said to the 'rents i now forsee Miss Marple weilding an autoatic pistol and fighting bad guys. my dad said it wouldn't happen, the stories aren't like that. my response was, 'uh, this is Hollywood!'
i said to the 'rents i now forsee Miss Marple weilding an autoatic pistol and fighting bad guys. my dad said it wouldn't happen, the stories aren't like that. my response was, 'uh, this is Hollywood!'
I don't get the problem with this. Did Miss Marple never solve mysteries before she was an old woman? If her being an old woman is the ONLY thing that separates her from all other detective characters...that doesn't seem like that great of a character.