Still, if the issue is about originality of Hollywood, the remake is still a remake (although they're both ripping off a book, but oh well).
Private Benjamin being remade.....
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Still, if the issue is about originality of Hollywood, the remake is still a remake (although they're both ripping off a book, but oh well).
Soapdish I believe is about the behind the scenes shananagins of a Soap Opera. Starring Whoopi Goldburg, Kevin Kline, and Robert Downey Jr.
A Star Is Born has been made three times and a fourth version with Beyonce Knowles is scheduled for 2012.
The first version was released in 1937, in full sound (of course) and Technicolor. It was very highly regarded. Despite that, the 1954 remake with Judy Garland is the best known and received the most Academy Awards and award nominations of the three.
The first version was released in 1937, in full sound (of course) and Technicolor. It was very highly regarded. Despite that, the 1954 remake with Judy Garland is the best known and received the most Academy Awards and award nominations of the three.
As much as really didn't like that movie or the series, Jane Lynch would be perfect in that role.
A Song Is Born (1948), starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, was a remake of Ball of Fire from 7 years earlier.
West of Zanzibar, a 1928 silent starring Lon Chaney, was remade as Kongo in 1931 with Walter Huston.
“Real” film? WTF?? Are films from the pre-sound era somehow not “real”? Norma Desmond would disagree!
You may be thinking of Soap.
Good Lord, please spare us. Didn’t Barbra Streisand ruin that story for all time with her beyond-dreadful 1976 version?
You can't remake a legendary comedy like Private Benjamin! What's next, new versions of such iconic cinema classics as Summer School, The Toy, Deal of the Century, Turner & Hooch, and dare I say it, Ice Pirates? Where will it end, Hollywood? Where will it end?
Short of getting Kate Hudson (which might seem too derivative) Anna Faris is a perfect choice to play the Goldie Hawn role, both looks and personality wise. Hopefully her resemblance to Hawn was why they chose her and not because they're aiming for Scary Movie/House Bunny levels of comedy.
Short of getting Kate Hudson (which might seem too derivative) Anna Faris is a perfect choice to play the Goldie Hawn role, both looks and personality wise. Hopefully her resemblance to Hawn was why they chose her and not because they're aiming for Scary Movie/House Bunny levels of comedy.
How long before they redo Smokey and the Bandit?
Anna Faris is the new Goldie, IMHO.
At this stage, I really couldn't care about the proposed remake. If it's great or even good, then well and good, I'll give it a viewing. If it's crap, well, no-one's raped my childhood and it's not like the original is an untouchable classic to begin with.
At this stage, I really couldn't care about the proposed remake. If it's great or even good, then well and good, I'll give it a viewing. If it's crap, well, no-one's raped my childhood and it's not like the original is an untouchable classic to begin with.
The 70s and 80s WERE decades ago.
As much as really didn't like that movie or the series, Jane Lynch would be perfect in that role.
As for the movie and series, I thought the movie was great, the series not so much, considering they had to get a nobody to play Goldie's role.
I've been told a number of times that Goldie Hawn babysat me for a couple of hours one evening in 1957 or '58. I of course have no recollection or way of corroborating that, nor any reason to doubt it...nor have I any idea how close it gets me to Kevin Bacon.
^Frankly, I'd be more interested in how close it could get me to Kate Hudson..
The 70s and 80s WERE decades ago.
Yeah, no kidding. We're talking 30-40 years ago.
It seems like that now, but at the time Lorna Patterson was considered something of an up-and-comer after her role in Airplane!
--Justin
No way! I actually adore Christina Applegate but that movie was bad the first time around.
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