Showing posts with label Remake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remake. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

The remake can only be moments away





Butch Cassidy: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful.
Guard: People kept robbing it.
Butch Cassidy: Small price to pay for beauty.



40 years old tomorrow. Still fantastic.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Terence Davies to remake "Wall Street"?



No, worse still.


"People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and The Great Gatsby can provide that," he told the Hollywood Reporter. "If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money', they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time, they'd be willing to."

Baz Luhrmann to remake The Great Gatsby.


"It takes two to make an accident."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3





Thursday, August 21, 2008

39 Elevators?






Hannay is back: the BBC Christmas will include a new version of the 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.

...the spy thriller later turned into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, "reimagined" for the Jason Bourne generation.