Sooner Or Later, Everyone Remakes Rick's
"It is one of the greatest films of Hollywood's golden era, a triple Oscar-winning classic with electrifyingly charismatic stars and a script bursting with memorable lines.
But now Madonna has stunned the movie industry with plans to remake Casablanca – and this time set it in Iraq.
The singer, whose previous film career has been littered with critical and commercial turkeys, is also planning to take the lead role of Ilsa Lund, which originally made a star of Ingrid Bergman."
Read the rest of the Daily Mail article here.Labels: article, caroline graham, casablanca, daily mail, madonna, remake
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
1:09 PM
6 Comments:
Okay, that's enough. Step away from the publicist. Put down the egos. Let be nice and no one gets hurt...
It's the end of the world as we know it ...
Next thing we'll be hearing that someone's planning a shot-for-shot remake of Hitchcock's "Psycho" -- oh, wait, that was done!
Still, I'm guessing this "Casablanca" might get the same big yawn as 1998's "Psycho" did from filmgoers and critics alike.
Make it stop! All these remakes are going to make me go insane... I'm mad as h*!! and i'm not going to take it anymore! BTW when are they going to remake Network? :)
'Sooner or later'...do I detect a Dick Tracy reference?
Actually the basic story of "Casablanca" would probably transfer very well to present-day Iraq. I have no problem with that at all. It's a solid kind of adventure-romance-wartime story.
But the reason the original is so revered(and rightly so)is the very specific confluence of elements-the rare and unusual talents of the WB stock company plus Ingrid Bergman. It was a great script, but it needed the people it had in the cast to be a deathless classic. We would NOT be talking about it if Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan had been cast, even if Curtiz had still directed it. And conversely Bogart himself made some pretty fun films that were remakes "in spirit" like "Passage to Marseilles" that no one remembers or cares about either.
Anyway, if I were going to produce and star myself in a remake as Madonna is contriving to do I sure as hell wouldn't tell anyone it was based on "Casablanca". Sheesh. She might as well paint a bullseye on her forehead.
Wait, you meant to put this up a few days ago right? on tuesday...the FIRST of april, right? Please say this is just a few days late. Im gonna go cry in a corner now.
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